Example sentences of "may [vb infin] only [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At one extreme , an encoder may provide only a bibliographic identification of the text . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When we recalculated the activity of Ca 2 + at the same pH ( pH 7.7 ) using the formula for changes in PCO 2 , however , the difference between the two groups was still apparent , indicating that the difference in pH may have only a minor influence on the observed difference in the Ca 2 + activity when the pH changes are caused by variations in pCO 2 ( recalculating the actual activity in gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease and controls to a pH 7.7 gives an activity of 0.407 and 0.315 mmol/kg , respectively ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the activists in political movements that fly religious banners are rarely religious in any serious sense ; indeed , they may have only the haziest idea of the doctrines they claim to champion . |
| 11 | Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year . |
| 12 | Although this may seem only a small step forward , we envisage members taking on more important tasks in the future . |
| 13 | Others are less successful and may get only a single female or even remain unmated . |
| 14 | While analysts appreciate more information — because they have the ability to separate the price sensitive information from the padding — shareholders may require only a good summary of performance to date . |
| 15 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |
| 16 | It believes that this ‘ crisis ’ level of interest rates may only may last only a short while but that a ‘ risk premium ’ may remain throughout the life of a Labour government , with adverse implications for growth . |