Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It simply means they promise anything to get you off the phone , so keep your fingers crossed or you may be staying here more than one night . ’ |
| 2 | According to this alternative view , the target association may be formed perfectly normally but since , on a subsequent test trial , both this and any previously learned association will become activated when the CS is presented , the subjects may fail to retrieve the ‘ correct ’ one and the likelihood of the CR will be reduced . |
| 3 | In this case , the figure may be adjusted downwards so that it may more easily be achieved , especially when commission payments are based on the full achievement of sales target or quota . |
| 4 | Relative factor returns , w and r , may be affected both directly and indirectly through the general equilibrium repercussions on the capital-labour ratio . |
| 5 | In the curious world of Japanese politics , the cause of political reform may be moving forwards just when it seems to be moving backwards |
| 6 | Kossen also says that these characteristics can be learned and developed , thereby suggesting that leaders may be made as well as born . |
| 7 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 8 | With materials the selling feature or unique selling proposition ( USP ) may be communicated quite simply or through a low-communication medium , e.g. the written word . |
| 9 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 10 | This aspect of option premiums may be seen more clearly if we look at calls and puts with the same exercise price but with different expiry dates . |
| 11 | ‘ Hullo ! ’ , and this may be said so softly that it is almost inaudible and we only see the nostrils tremble . |
| 12 | Information stored may be accessed more rapidly than on floppy disks and far greater amounts of data may be stored , typically 20M as opposed to 1.2M for a floppy disk . |
| 13 | They may be packaged slightly differently but they are based upon the same unspoken tradition that underpinned my own short years at college . |
| 14 | Our particular role may be to take over consciously and with some degree of awareness that which was formerly done on a more instinctive level . |
| 15 | These contradictions between GCSE and records of achievement may be explained quite simply since they reflect a fundamental tension in the purpose of school assessment itself . |
| 16 | The comment may be continued over more than one line , and in order for the header to scan successfully , the files and the module header file must be on the same account . |
| 17 | Translated into market terms , this means that the labour power capable of performing the process may be purchased more cheaply as dissociated elements than as a capacity integrated in a single worker ’ ( Braverman , 1974 , pp. 81–82 ) . |
| 18 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 19 | The ‘ force ’ facility may be used as often as required , for example , to re-assign responsibility if the recipient of a previously forced SPR does not wish to take resposibility for it , or a user has accepted responsibility and has then passed it on to someone else . |
| 20 | This is done using option 3.8.0 , Force User to Accept SPR , and may be used as often as required , for example , to re-assign responsibility if the recipient of a previously forced SPR does not wish to take resposibility for it , or a user has accepted responsibility and then wishes to pass it to someone else . |
| 21 | Consequently , it may be used more easily and fine tuning in earlier stages of design is much easier than is the case with an optimization technique . |
| 22 | Through an examination of the files down to 1551 , it is intended to produce a more detailed guide to the contents of these records than is available at present , so that they may be used more easily and become better known . |
| 23 | Of course some pound notes may be used more frequently than others , and some may not be used at all , but the velocity of circulation measures the average number of times a unit of currency is used . |
| 24 | They may be found either collectively or individually . |
| 25 | The interviewer 's questions may be edited out so that all we see is the individual talking although the interviewer was in fact standing slightly to the left or right of the camera . |
| 26 | On a national scale , the numerically and financially important small hotel businesses , which play a vital role in the provision of the national stock of tourist accommodation may be performing less well than they could . |
| 27 | hang on to somebody elses tail lights , it gives us a false sense of security watch your speed , you may be going much faster than you think , do not speed up to get away from the vehicle which is too close behind you , remember that if you 're driving with heavy people it may take longer to pull up and speed on ahead , warning signals or |
| 28 | Where the statutory provision deals with the same area , the prerogative may be extinguished either expressly or by implication . |
| 29 | Coursework may be carried out individually or in groups ; the latter may involve peer assessment . |
| 30 | It has a long half life and may be administered either orally or intravenously . |