Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms it may not make much difference to consumers when they do that . ’ |
| 2 | The latest findings may not make much difference to clinical practice in this country . |
| 3 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 4 | Screening services are often fragmented , and the public may not have equal access to particular screening programmes . |
| 5 | The librarians in the academic sector are particularly aware that students have few library and information needs and problems it the outset of their academic careers , but are mindful nevertheless that they may not have easy access to the students ( especially in the polytechnics and the universities ) until a much later stage of their courses , if at all . |
| 6 | This , however , does not mean that there are no further levels of distinction inside the group or that an individual member or a particular family within the gens may not have privileged access to a part of the gens territory . |
| 7 | Just as some readers may not share an action or background knowledge schema with an author , so they may not have ready access to a logic schema which would help them to use the passage effectively . |
| 8 | Thus , without prior agreement , they may not disclose confidential information to their backers as this could damage the business of the company and affect the price which the vendors may be able to obtain for their shares ; they may not be able to vote at board meetings on major issues affecting the company if those issues might adversely affect a possible management buy-out ; and they can not involve any of their colleagues in the buy-out or persuade staff to become involved . |
| 9 | WAITING at tables may not seem much fun to most people but in Hollywood anything goes , says 24-year-old head waiter Richard Partington . |
| 10 | Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention . |
| 11 | The state rightly claims that its unitary tax is far less onerous than it was a decade ago , and hints that it may soon limit unitary-tax treatment to a multinational company 's American profits . |
| 12 | Secondly , patients in hospital may also avoid hasty discharge to residential or care homes if they face means tested charges . |
| 13 | They may also give increased access to other sources of finance . |
| 14 | More importantly , the movement of these luxury items to centres of high consumption emphasises the superior access of individuals in stateless societies to valuables through ceremonial exchange , behind which may also lie superior access to ordinary goods . |
| 15 | If they find their way into food operations and are used to remove dirt from aluminium surfaces they will not only be ineffective but may also cause considerable damage to the finish . |
| 16 | Intense , narrowly-focussed beams may also cause local heating to the point of incandescence , particularly with micas , which flare and collapse . |
| 17 | Perceptions of the quality of their own early work tend to decline as they attain seniority and experience , and they may well attach less significance to the value of other theses to their own work . |
| 18 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 19 | These words may simply add more information to what has already been said ( and , furthermore , add to that ) or elaborate or exemplify it ( for instance , thus , in other words ) . |
| 20 | A pupil who is making a constant effort to use vision as fully as possible in school tasks may sometimes find this effort to be somewhat of an overload when his or her general level of well-being is low , for instance , when suffering from a cold or feeling particularly tired . |
| 21 | Doctors are themselves not immune from the disease of alcoholism and some of them may therefore give inappropriate reassurance to patients . |