Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal . |
| 2 | LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors . |
| 3 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 4 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 5 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
| 6 | A computer salesperson may carry out a survey of customer requirements prior to suggesting an appropriate computer system . |
| 7 | Geographically , this may bring in the concept of relative location , for instance , the distance in travel time between the corporate headquarters and a branch factory . |
| 8 | There are also fears that the increased tourist traffic will bring introduced plant and animal species which may bring about the extinction of endemic species . |
| 9 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 10 | The judge may look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary or technical work ; but this ordinary meaning may be controlled by the particular context . |
| 11 | Fertilisations may occur over a period of a month , but the most recent foetuses have the best chance to develop . |
| 12 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 13 | Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 . |
| 14 | In a letter published in The Times on March 2nd , the Cardinal said : ‘ Whatever stance individuals may take over the morality of the nuclear deterrent , there must be general agreement on the aim of preventing the spread of weapons to non-nuclear states . ’ |
| 15 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 16 | The unconscious may take on the status of an answer to everything : a last piece of the jigsaw , which feminists initiated into Lacanianism can use to solve the issue on another plane , or can reject . |
| 17 | Organisations may take on the letting of the employee 's property together with its insurance and maintenance or engage a managing agent or specialist relocation firm to do it . |
| 18 | Chapter 6 formalises a decision-making model in which a household may take up a number of different income opportunities according to its capability and the ‘ entry costs ’ of such opportunities . |
| 19 | Even then , if a file is very large , it may spread over a number of disks . |
| 20 | He may hand over the means of control of the goods , e.g. the key to the premises where they are housed . |
| 21 | The opposition may put down a motion of censure on the Government at any time . |
| 22 | However , burying a pet in your garden may stir up a variety of unexpected emotions shortly afterwards . |
| 23 | To make matters worse , chemical reactions on the surfaces of the ice cloud particles may speed up the rate of ozone depletion by some forms of chlorine especially chlorine monoxide ( figure 6.8 ; Stolarski , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | On a larger scale , in very wet ground , lenses of ice several metres thick may accumulate over a number of years , causing hummocky ground ; on thawing they create pits from which originate many tundra ponds . |