Example sentences of "may [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal . |
| 2 | Ethnicity is not , however , always marked by linguistic distinctiveness , Labov 's work with Italian and Jewish speakers in New York City shows that such distinctiveness may persist for several generations , or conversely may disappear with the first generation of native-born speakers who nevertheless maintain a strong sense of ethnicity ( Labov 1972b : 281 ) . |
| 3 | If they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical . |
| 4 | Hooks are found on segments after the second branching but they do not form complete rings until beyond the third or fourth branch ; in juvenile specimens the rings may appear after the second branch . |
| 5 | Students whose performance is exceptional may transfer to the second year of the BSc Honours Computing and Information Systems course at Jordanstown ( see page 159 ) . |
| 6 | Students who successfully complete the course may transfer to the second year of the BSc Hons Mathematics , Statistics and Computing course at Jordanstown . |
| 7 | Making concessions to Lenin 's Indian and ‘ Asia-First ’ opponent , M N Roy , the Commission had , throughout the theses , replaced ‘ bourgeois-democratic ’ by ‘ revolutionary ’ and the result was , as one may see in the sixth thesis , that the revolutionary-liberation movement in backward countries or among backward nationalities was invited to determine what forms this alliance should take . |
| 8 | The same discounting may occur with the next moves , probably involving the lifting of the three-year-old state of emergency and the formal unbanning of political organisations . |
| 9 | Irregular things may happen on the next stage , the 200 kilometres to Strasbourg . |
| 10 | Dickson suggested a further stage , briefly dipping the stained slide or surface into Alizarin red solution alone , but this is not often needed and indeed may detract from the first stain . |
| 11 | But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ . |
| 12 | Students who have performed well in Year II of the BTEC HND in Mathematics , Statistics and Computing ( code JN 1111 ) ( see page 168 ) may proceed to the second year of the honours degree course . |
| 13 | You may hear in the first syllable of ‘ photography ’ , in the second syllable of ‘ photograph ’ and in the third syllable of ‘ photographer ’ , but the brain recognises links between these a vowels and , and respectively , and supplies underlying vowels which change into the appropriate sound as the stress pattern changes . |
| 14 | Likewise , the reactive home medic may panic at the first sign of trouble , fail to diagnose the true cause of the problem and , in adding a so-called ‘ remedy ’ , do more harm than good . |
| 15 | It 's quite clear of course that though Diodati may belong to the first class , Milton belongs to the second . |
| 16 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |
| 17 | At this point we 're only bringing in the Cherokee and the Viper , but ultimately we 'll bring in the Grand Cherokee and the minivan [ MPV ] , although we wo n't do those until we have right-hand drive versions , which may come before the next generation models . |
| 18 | It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love . |
| 19 | How important this single factor is in maintaining traditional agricultural management in the French uplands is impossible to estimate but , if the proposal remains as it is , more small French farms in the LFA may intensify for the first time . |