Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To these users , a visit to the doctor may eventually mean a visit from the police . |
| 2 | It must involve some acts being done in State B , over which the law of that State may properly exercise a measure of control . |
| 3 | The sunk costs involved in building a strong market position may additionally become a barrier to entry , even if the intention was ‘ innocent ’ competition rather than a deliberate strategy to exclude potential competitors . |
| 4 | In some cases you may only choose a maximum of one unit of a specific type , for example you can only have one Mob of Big'uns . |
| 5 | In some cases you may only choose a maximum of one unit of a specific type , for example you can only have one regiment of Reiksguard Knights . |
| 6 | Also , some squares in the pattern may only match a square on the edge of the board . |
| 7 | Distortion of doubly-degenerate states gives two maxima , but often these are not resolved , and we may only observe a broadening of the band . |
| 8 | As Donald Rees from the South West Water Authority told the Lords : ‘ It is all very well lining a sewer at half the price that it would cost to build a new one , but in fact it may only last a quarter of a normal funding life and may therefore be uneconomic . ’ |
| 9 | One year A tenant may only serve a request for a new tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26 , if his tenancy was granted for a term of years certain exceeding one year or for a term of years certain and thereafter from year to year ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s26(1) ) . |
| 10 | A man of 25 in that position may only get a multiplier of 13 or 14 . |
| 11 | Depending on the complexity of your operations this may only take a couple of man weeks and could be repeated at regular intervals to monitor progress . |
| 12 | If you decide to stock the pond with fish , frogs may only become a nuisance in the spring , as unattached male frogs can cling onto the fish , causing them distress and have even been known to suffocate them by clamping onto their gills . |
| 13 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 14 | However applicable the distinction — and Walsh 's characterization of the " provincial " muftis — may be in the period after the end of the sixteenth century , the position regarding the muftis in the earlier period is rather more complex , for here one must distinguish three classes : first , the Mufti ; second , muftis of a number of cities and large towns , who certainly were of the ulema class ; and third , though evidence regarding them is hard to come by , one may perhaps hypothesize a class of small-town , even village muftis , who may have been , but very possibly were not , of the ulema class . |
| 15 | In Williams ' chapter ( 3.1 ) , we may perhaps see a justification of equality of condition or outcome on the basis of equality of opportunity . |
| 16 | President Milosevic of Serbia may not want a fight in Kosovo , since the current campaign of slow ethnic cleansing is doing quite well . |
| 17 | You may not register a mark for services , such as consultancies , banking , engine tuning or education . |
| 18 | I applaud the impartial stance of the General Medical Council , mirrored in the ‘ Alaska law , ’ which states : ‘ the Board may not base a finding of professional incompetence solely on the basis that a licensee 's practice is unconventional or experimental , in the absence of demonstrable physical harm to the patient . ’ |
| 19 | In relation to the example of the headship issue , it would follow that although a woman may not hold a position of authority in the church , she may be prime minister . |
| 20 | Members can present petitions at the close of business of the House each day , but in future should we disregard them because people have merely put their signatures to something which , according to the Minister , they may not give a damn about ? |
| 21 | Sometimes a constipated child may not pass a stool for two to three weeks , with embarrassing toilet-blocking results ; suppositories and enemas just add to his humiliation and discomfort . |
| 22 | You 're going to hear a lot more about her — and you may not like a lot of what you hear . |
| 23 | It could also be questioned whether a system of specialised representatives is desirable in that it may not produce a group of people willing to take an overall view of the question . |
| 24 | USL 's other stockholders , Sun , ICL , Amdahl , Fujitsu , Motorola , NEC , Oki , Toshiba , Olivetti , Tata and 3i , may not have a say in what eventually happens or whether Novell takes it all . |
| 25 | Of course , you may not have a choice about where you live , particularly if you are a student in halls of residence , or a disabled person with special requirements . |
| 26 | Although it is early days and the team will not be reporting back until March , what is already becoming clear to it is that , unless small firms are encouraged to continue training chartered accountants , the smaller end of the profession may not have a future at all . |
| 27 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 28 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 29 | Spanish , Portuguese , Arabic and Japanese are the most useful languages , Sir Alfred says , because they ‘ have a wide catchment area containing many decision-makers who may not have a command of English ’ . |
| 30 | This finding , albeit in very small numbers , would seem to suggest that reduced prostacyclin production may not have a role in the development of microvascular disease . |