Example sentences of "may [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may most easily reveal the power of these influences on Dicey 's thought by posing what from a contemporary perspective seems to be a major difficulty with Dicey 's theory : how do we reconcile the twin principles of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law ? |
| 2 | To our interjection that on the evidence from Poland and other European countries under Russian domination , applied Marxism had neither created the wealth nor allowed the freedom to enable the purpose , as it is perceived in the democratic west , of the State to be realised — that is , to provide the circumstances in which the individual may most fully live a life of his or her own and so fulfill his or her potential for awareness and creativity , he would reply that that perception was mistaken ; and go on to remind us that he had attached supreme importance to the State . |
| 3 | It should be a close , hard game but Cushendall may perhaps just have the edge . |
| 4 | He may not exactly obey every letter of the law . |
| 5 | Any course you choose to undertake before updating is made mandatory may not later satisfy the Boards if you decide to delay return to nursing or health visiting in the meantime . |
| 6 | The relevant constitutive treaty may be bilateral and may not even satisfy the criteria for a dispositive treaty . |
| 7 | I may not even hook a fish , for the disturbance of retrieving a float through such shallow water , so close to the fish , would be sure to scare them . |
| 8 | They may not even have a friend . |
| 9 | You ca n't have an overdraft and you may not even have a bank account . |
| 10 | Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan . |
| 11 | Yet fellow members of a species can understand each other with the greatest of ease , while we may not even have the senses to perceive their communications to each other , let alone understand them . |
| 12 | You may not even like the King , but he wears the Crown of the Confessor . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the figures for press articles and radio and television programmes may not adequately reflect the importance of these as sources of information , since the majority of such features were produced either before or after the Survey period . |
| 14 | While the report may not completely resolve the question for your Lordships , it provides in the first place a very useful summary of the state of the law in 1966 . |
| 15 | You may not initially notice the effect of having a suspended CLI command file . |
| 16 | When sitting at the breakfast table you may not actually measure the distance between your hand and the coffee cup , but you seldom miss . |
| 17 | The access road , however , may not actually reach the boundary of the site and the original developer may have retained a strip as narrow as 1 m . |
| 18 | They may not actually put the tenor clef in till grade grade five now I come to think about that . |
| 19 | The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is posed with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 20 | People can not be photographed well at a quarter of a second … = The problem can only be solved with patience , and with the realisation that , much as one is poised with the right pressure on the cable release , one may not actually get a shot because of the steady stream of people making their way ( quite properly ) to a performance in the hall itself . |
| 21 | The motion is a sort of compromise which may not truly reflect the views of anyone or even an adequate solution to the problem . |
| 22 | The profitability of the Business may be affected and merely replacing the defective equipment may not sufficiently compensate the Purchaser . |
| 23 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 24 | It may finally be noted that the presence of a " synonymous " word-pair within a parallelistic couplet may not necessarily form an obstacle to the parallelism of greater specificity . |
| 25 | The myth that community care is cheaper than institutional care has long since been dispensed with , but this may not necessarily deter the government from seeing the impending changes as an opportunity to cut costs . |
| 26 | Although it may not necessarily clarify the position , there should nevertheless be greater recognition of children 's autonomy interests in the context of school discipline . |
| 27 | ‘ True , it may not necessarily reform the offender but at least it punishes him in a way which society would regard as just . |
| 28 | This may not necessarily mean the area has a scarcity of attractive buildings and open spaces . |
| 29 | an Investment Overview , which is a brief memorandum that highlights the main features of the business and which may not necessarily identify the name of the business ; and |
| 30 | They point out that services need to be aware of carers ' histories and their responses to stress , and that retirement may not necessarily increase a person 's ability or willingness to become an informal carer . |