Example sentences of "may [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question may have niggled at the 7,776 advertising talents who entered their work for the prestigious Design & Art Direction Awards , some of whom will turn up tonight at a glittering Grosvenor House junket to find out whether they have won one of the silver or gold pencils . |
| 2 | Despite these efforts , erosion losses remain excessive and may have increased during the 1970s [ and this trend ] may continue indefinitely into the future . ’ |
| 3 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
| 4 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 5 | As you may have heard in the seven o'clock news , three British hostages are now on their way home from Iraq , after being freed from jail in Baghdad . |
| 6 | Even people who claim to remember dreams every morning only recall their most recent dream , and any dreams they may have had during the two or three REM periods earlier in the night , or even during REM sleep , are completely lost . |
| 7 | The essential difference between these methods arises because the exchange rate between the local currency and the domestic currency of the holding company may have changed between the two dates . |