Example sentences of "may [verb] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A weak band close to a strong one may become difficult to detect in the gas phase , unless its own rotational envelope contains a prominent feature such as a Q-branch close to the band origin .
2 The contemporary meaning and significance of phenomena may have little to do with the shape and form which links them , however remotely , with the past .
3 AT&T 's eagerness to identify with an artist who ran away , scrawled graffiti on walls , and became a drug addict may have little to do with the quest for positive ‘ role models ’ now popular in the United States .
4 The data capture movements of relative prices and incomes which may have little to do with the effect of economic integration upon trade , but rather follow from changes in policies or other factors .
5 In fact , politics may have more to say about the actual extent of a regulatory framework than does economics .
6 Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest .
7 In Gower 's case at least , these failings may have more to do with the way the government sought to conduct its review of investor protection : ostensibly on the basis of the talents of one man .
8 It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form , and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index .
9 Treaty , would adopt ‘ the adjustments that it may prove necessary to make to the distribution of the resources among member states . ’
10 In a cold , late spring it may prove difficult to graze off the rye in time to work up a good tilth for mangolds .
11 A levy on imports and exports is one possibility , although it may prove difficult to square with the free-trade regulations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) .
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