Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 2 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 3 | Some companies advertise kit , knowing that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad . |
| 4 | Some companies advertise kit , knowing full well that stocks are low and may not last for the full life of the ad . |
| 5 | Of course the possibility remains that the sites HS5A and 5B do fulfill an as yet unclear function and that the other hypersensitive sites still present in this construct may functionally substitute for the deleted sites , reflecting a level of redundancy in the NF-L regulatory sequences . |
| 6 | If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable . |
| 7 | Incomplete recording may partly account for the low rates of sickness absence among those in the highest grades , but it is unlikely to explain the large differences between other grades . |
| 8 | Unlike the ECSC , the whole concept had been modelled as a body in which Britain might participate : this may partly account for the diluted supranational element . |
| 9 | This quantitative difference may also account for the beneficial effects seen after surgical interruption of the left stellate ganglion . |
| 10 | This factor may also account for the repetitive waves in the transposed colon . |
| 11 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 12 | Next time we may well vote for the Scottish National Party , no more NUNGE . |
| 13 | On the one hand , the growing cult of the fact may well account for the modern American cultivation of its opposite , the surreal fiction of Heller , Pynchon and Doctorow ; if realism is captured by sociology , some novelists may take refuge in surrealism . |
| 14 | Melton Park would have a very easy passage in the Members ' , but may instead go for the Restricted , where his main opposition could come from The Grey Boreen . |