Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may like to think that such changes enable the organisation to be more efficient and effective in achieving its goals and yet it may well be that such changes arise as a result of trying to satisfy an individual 's political ambitions or to undercut the ambitions of a rival . |
| 2 | Sentimental producers may like to think that these programmes give the politicians a chance to find out what the people are thinking , and vice versa . |
| 3 | Secondly , the vendor may attempt to argue that sufficient warranties are implied by statutes , such as the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , to obviate the need for warranties . |
| 4 | You may have noticed that recent issues of NOTES have given people with visual impairments the chance to have NOTES on a DOS text file on computer disk , to use with aids such as screen magnifiers , synthetic speech generators or electronic braille . |
| 5 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 6 | You may have noticed that social class is defined : |
| 7 | In the previous exercise you may have discovered that social class V had between 150 and 250 per cent as many stillbirths as social class I. Using Minitab instruction IRAN , create a column of random data in the range 150 to 250 . |
| 8 | This may have meant that these stimuli contained relatively little peripheral information . |
| 9 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 10 | 6.5 Similar leases The tenant , if taking premises in a shopping centre under a lease containing intricate service charge provisions , may wish to ensure that all leases of units in the centre mirror its own lease . |
| 11 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 12 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 13 | The student may come to appreciate that each concept , or theory or professional practice is set within a particular framework of thought or action . |
| 14 | But Casaubon is not without insight in his idea that the committed experimental philosopher may come to think that all areas of human concern and experience are legitimate grist to his mill . |
| 15 | Families with elderly , incontinent parents , may care to know that waterproof bedding can be purchased from this company . |