Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it has to be recognised that several interests may feel threatened by an advertising ban . |
| 2 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 3 | For instance , a pupil with hemianopia or a diminished visual field may have to sit at an angle rather than square to the blackboard in order to use remaining vision usefully to discriminate what is on it . |
| 4 | It introduces the thought that in his speech as well as in his writing , Johnson understood that the essence of art lies in the perfect marriage of form and content , therefore , Boswell may have reached for an accuracy beyond sycophancy . |
| 5 | For instance , increased advertising and improved product availability through distributors or retailers may have led to an increase in the total potential market since the initial statistics were published . |
| 6 | In this study , when only histamine was given to nude mice , increased vascular permeability mediated by intercation with histamine 1 receptor may have led to an enhancement of xenograft growth due to increased diffusion of nutrents etc , in addition to direct proliferative effects by a histamine 2 receptor . |
| 7 | Reputedly the smallest of England 's parish churches , it may have developed from an anchorite 's cell in the eleventh or twelfth century , and since that time had drawn many pilgrims to its almost inaccessible woodland site . |
| 8 | What about which year joined as alternative to years of Membership , since some may have joined as an Associate ? |
| 9 | The dispersal of office activities may have resulted in an increase in employment in some of the smaller towns in more rural regions within the South of England . |
| 10 | The decline in profitability may have resulted in an unwillingness of British business to invest in industry in this country , but it did not lead to any scarcity of capital for investment . |
| 11 | If the partner continues working , the couple may have to survive on an income below the statutory safety net . |
| 12 | This way if anybody asks I may have talked to an agent from British Security . |
| 13 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 14 | Although separated from her husband of 11 years , Diana 's loneliest chapter may have come to an end . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end . |
| 16 | Technically , it may have come to an end , but recovery will be slow , sluggish and patchy . |
| 17 | The student Work Experience programme is always a positive way of learning about the skills and attitudes of young people who may wish to work in an organisation like yours . |
| 18 | Exceptionally the statutes creating these bodies may omit to provide for an appeal in which case the decisions of the tribunals in question may be the subject of review by the High Court , and if the decisions reveal an error of law they may be quashed by what is known as an order of certiorari . |
| 19 | Notwithstanding any direction the court may make , a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision may refuse to submit to an examination or other assessment ( s38(6) ) . |