Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as in the private sector primary education is ‘ preparatory ’ , getting children ready for their public schools , so in the maintained sector we may naturally see primary school in this light . |
| 2 | One reason is that it may not leave sufficient motivation for the individuals to set about increasing the value of the company . |
| 3 | The usual preparation with Lugol may not prevent thyroid damage by I-MIBG . |
| 4 | Screening services are often fragmented , and the public may not have equal access to particular screening programmes . |
| 5 | These include tigers and other dangerous creatures that may or may not have material form at any given time , ghosts , as well as ‘ spirits ’ — the waterfall mara ’ that causes tuberculosis ; the tree mara ’ that kills a person 's ‘ soul ’ by breaking its neck , bringing sickness and death in a single day ; the hilltop mara ’ that twists and shrivels limbs , and so on . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The patient may not have full feeling in the skin on his hemiplegic side , so he should cover his arms and legs with clothing and both his hands with gardening gloves , unless it is really too hot for comfort . |
| 10 | Military sources said some those arrested may not have direct knowledge of the coup . |
| 11 | This may not include positive valuation of black people or different ethnic backgrounds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The use of strategies to interpret problematic utterances appears to be incompatible with coming to understand that a verbal message may not provide adequate information about the speaker 's intended meaning . |
| 14 | Similarly , checklists completed by a teacher may not provide reliable information with respect to the child 's use of language at home and information provided by a parent , on the basis of the child 's abilities at home , ought not to be taken as an indication of the child 's performance in other settings . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The opposite side of the argument is that in task allocation people may not receive appropriate care at appropriate times and that the day is succession of minor interruptions , made for the convenience of the organisation and not for the benefit of individuals . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | LCH may thus avoid direct involvement in the handling of financial instruments and commodities , though in some cases , notably the gilt financial futures and other government bond contracts , LCH does receive and make delivery itself . |
| 19 | A possible explanation is that the reduced bile flow as shown in cholesterol gall stone patients may enhance the absorption of water in the bile duct and may thus produce hepatic bile with a greater total lipid concentration . |
| 20 | A purchaser , ‘ not in good faith ’ ( i.e. one who is negligent or reckless in his belief about the ownership rights of the seller ) may nevertheless acquire full title after a lapse of twenty years . |
| 21 | Secondly , patients in hospital may also avoid hasty discharge to residential or care homes if they face means tested charges . |
| 22 | Every citation count is a ratio of citations per citable items , as each author , in preparing his list of references , may not include all of the relevant citations , and may also exercise editorial control over what is included , and what is left out . |
| 23 | They may also give increased access to other sources of finance . |
| 24 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 25 | The sticky nature of the outer shell may also facilitate passive spread of eggs . |
| 26 | Even if upward social mobility amongst non-political elites is possible , the absence of any alternation of political parties in power may also breed anti-system frustration amongst the leadership groups of minorities that are permanently excluded from access to governmental power . |
| 27 | They may also furnish invaluable information on the target company through their analysts and can provide the manpower and support necessary for a contested takeover . |
| 28 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 29 | These results lend support to the idea that tenascin alternative splice forms may also have functional significance at the protein level . |
| 30 | This 8-week option may also have particular appeal for overseas managers . |