Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 2 | Elements of the abductive sense may be instinctive , and the result of selection , others the product of training : selection may explain both the innate quality space and the flexibility which , we know , make possible the training which explains our current ( reliable ) sense of plausibility ( Quine 1969c ) . |
| 3 | Although PAS is a commercial business , Bill and Kath both have a soft spot for museums and collectors alike , and in the past have supplied , at reasonable prices , parts to large museums like the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , and to ‘ one man collections ’ who may want just a small item to complete a cockpit panel etc . |
| 4 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 5 | It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment . |
| 6 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 7 | We may perceive here the strange workings of the historical process according to Rousseau . |
| 8 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 9 | If there is plenty of food about , she may do so every other day . |
| 10 | A six-month-old Rottweiler dog may appear quite a large dog in size , but mentally he is still very much a baby . |
| 11 | Thus , if implemented , notwithstanding the other requirements of SSAP 15 , companies may use either the full provision or partial provision basis in accounting for the deferred tax implications of post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 and UITF 6 . |
| 12 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 13 | People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts . |
| 14 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 15 | If for any reason , such as fire or overgrazing , the arms of the parabolic dune become unstabilised , the whole form may become merely a shapeless mass of sand migrating downwind through the dune belt . |
| 16 | At one extreme , an encoder may provide only a bibliographic identification of the text . |
| 17 | Compare that to a whole forest in the UK that may contain just a few species . |
| 18 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 19 | When presented with adequate messages , even though they may contain only the minimal information necessary to locate the target , young children are capable of the necessary perceptual discrimination and message decoding to perform effectively as listeners . |
| 20 | A piece of handicraft may cost just a few pence in our terms , so where is the virtue in knocking it down any further ? ’ |
| 21 | These findings emphasize the role of photochemical processes in the lower atmosphere , and may suggest only a limited role for transport in other , more polluted regions . |
| 22 | From the top of the stairs , one may enter either the temporary exhibition galleries , or the circuit of newly climate-controlled , track-lit , chronologically installed American and European picture galleries , containing masterworks such as Mantegna 's so-called ‘ Esther and Mordecai ’ grisaille , Bronzino 's ‘ Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and her Son ’ , Guercino 's ‘ Mars with Cupid ’ , Giambologna 's small bronze ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ , Terborch 's newly restored ‘ The music party ’ , and Gainsborough 's ‘ Portrait of Mrs Philip Thicknesse ’ . |
| 23 | This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project . |
| 24 | This may have completely the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 25 | In this case we may have either no steady state ( Fig. 8–1b ) or two steady states ( Fig. 8 — 1c ) . |
| 26 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 27 | Those people may have roughly the same income and circumstances and they may all be able to bear the same burden . |
| 28 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 29 | If corporations merely promoted or recruited new personnel to replace the faint-hearted or imprisoned , then frightening and removing executives to prison may have only a minimal impact on corporate crime . |
| 30 | This may have only a marginal effect on the owners of a semi , but in blocks of flats contributions have to be made to a maintenance fund . |