Example sentences of "they may [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They receive a substantial annual budget from central government coffers , they may borrow from the national loan fund for commercial purposes and they can make use of the proceeds from land sales . |
| 2 | Inherited disorders such as cystic fibrosis and functional anomalies such as mental retardation were excluded , but phenylketonuria , galactosaemia , and congenital hypothyroidism were included because they are routinely detected by neonatal screening in Hungary and they may manifest as a congenital abnormality ( for example , microcephaly , cataract , umbilical hernia ) . |
| 3 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 4 | If another competitor catches you up , they may overtake at a safe and suitable place , and you should give way . |
| 5 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 6 | They may play in a different key and with a somewhat different emphasis but the tune can often be heard all the same . |
| 7 | Years can pass before the unwanted effects of a drug are spotted and , even then , they may occur in a tiny fraction of patients . |
| 8 | If any branch is not satisfied with the decision of the branch they may appeal to the Regional Committee . |
| 9 | One may be a reaction to the other , or they may amount to a tacit agreement on both sides that sexual attraction has become a thing of the past . |
| 10 | ‘ I scarcely know whether these remarks are intended as the mere superfluous assertion of an abstract right , or whether they are intended to imply a covert threat , that if the petitioners are dissatisfied with the answer to their application , they may resort to the extreme course of closing that useful place of veterinary education . |
| 11 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 12 | Rarely , they may propagate in an oral direction . |
| 13 | They may belong to a minor αβ T-cell pathway in which DN DP transition occurs independently of TCR -β rearrangement or expression . |
| 14 | But if they suddenly have the urge to express their senior status in relation to a new pet in the home they may revert to the age-old manner of doing this , much to the distress of their well-meaning owners , who probably bought the new kitten as a special companion for the older cat . |
| 15 | They may ask for an extra premium if they 're including it they may ask for a bit towards it , but they can give a better cover . |
| 16 | New mothers are so terrified of their babies getting cold that they may run into the opposite danger . |
| 17 | In other words , they may win within the established system but it does not get them very far if they are not carrying the people with them in a popular crusade for change . |