Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A persistent and well-argued case has to be answered and this may eventually have some influence on a minister . |
| 2 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
| 3 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 4 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 5 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 6 | In practical terms it may not make much difference to consumers when they do that . ’ |
| 7 | The latest findings may not make much difference to clinical practice in this country . |
| 8 | He feared the views of people living in areas like Lazenby and Portrack , Stockton , may not hold much sway in Northallerton . |
| 9 | His views were echoed by Coun David Walsh , committee chairman , who feared the views of people living in areas like Lazenby and Portrack , Stockton , may not hold much sway in Northallerton . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That 's a burp you may not experience that word from where you come from |
| 12 | In marked distinction to the solicitors ' branch of the profession , the pupil barrister may not earn any money during the first six months of pupillage and there are only limited opportunities for earning in the second six months of pupillage . |
| 13 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 14 | This postulates that , although some groups may not have much money in relative terms , they will spend more in defined sectors . |
| 15 | They may not have much impact on the result of Namibia 's election . |
| 16 | Encouraging men to associate babies with bills may not have much impact on single parenthood . |
| 17 | The new Prime Minister Mrs Tansu Ciller is a self confessed disciple of Margaret Thatcher , and as such may not have much time for a liberalisation of sexual attitudes . |
| 18 | Well , we may not have enough time for that , so erm , let's imagine that you 're a sales director , and , now this is more difficult . |
| 19 | Speakers from outside the black community , however , may not have any idea of the origin of these expressions , while even those within the black community may not realise their Caribbean connections . |
| 20 | WAITING at tables may not seem much fun to most people but in Hollywood anything goes , says 24-year-old head waiter Richard Partington . |
| 21 | This increase in ‘ distress borrowing ’ may largely offset any decline in borrowing by other firms or individuals . |
| 22 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 23 | They hope it will prove so complex and costly to implement that the company may finally decide that mining in Mayo simply is n't worth the trouble . |
| 24 | While history teachers would wish to eschew the more brash sales methods they may nevertheless welcome some guidance on appropriate methods and strategies for promoting their subject . |
| 25 | We have already seen that national rules which do not expressly discriminate on grounds of nationality may nevertheless have this effect in practice . |
| 26 | Some parents have inappropriate expectations for their child 's level of development and may just require some help in understanding and acknowledging what their child is able to do and how appropriate this is for their age . |
| 27 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 28 | Without underestimating the possibility that we may still witness some increase of private medical insurance , it would not be realistic to pretend that one can see how an alternative system could now grow up beside , or be substituted for , the channelling of this £1,000 million of the national income through government agencies . |
| 29 | The Council may further provide that compliance with the provisions of the Codes of Practice by any individual on the Register shall be a defence against any complaint in any proceedings brought against such individual pursuant to Bye–Law 70 provided that the provisions of the Code of Practice are , in the opinion of the Council , relevant to the complaint being investigated and adjudicated upon . |
| 30 | An urban regeneration scheme may possibly require some form of grant or other incentive financing to be viable , when capital and operating costs are taken into account . |