Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process . |
| 2 | Instead you list some possible rewards he may be gaining from the phone calls : |
| 3 | In seeking to account for the shortcomings which have previously been identified in respect of our conventional political institutions it may be helpful to make use of a typology developed in a slightly different though related context by Kamenka and Tay ( Kamenka and Tay , 1975 ; Kamenka and Tay , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 5 | Within your overall conditioned hours you may be able to work a number of different working patterns . |
| 6 | Sore eyes I may have , but at least I am not blind and can still darn my own stockings . |
| 7 | And because of its reduced nasal cavities it may find breathing increasingly difficult as it grows older . |
| 8 | To European eyes it may seem that in summer their cities and beauty spots are overrun by Daughters of the Revolution in trainers and beige macks , but most Americans take their holidays in America . |
| 9 | Secondly , with long-established products it may put off loyal users if you start messing about with ‘ their ’ brand and what they believe it to stand for . |
| 10 | Some reasons you may find apply in your case include : deciding on a career change ; looking for more responsibility ( both good , positive reasons ) ; coming to the end of seasonal or short-contract employment ; insufficient money ; wanting to work closer to home . |
| 11 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 12 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 13 | In some cases we may wish to compare the categories themselves such as the advanced/underdeveloped dichotomy , in order to illuminate any evolutionary aspects of industrial relations . |
| 14 | In some cases we may have no difficulty in finding several groups , but in every case we shall find one ( or two ) . |
| 15 | In some cases they may be diametrically opposed . |
| 16 | In some cases they may appear to be in conflict . |
| 17 | In some cases they may explode or manage to throw off enough matter to reduce their mass below the limit and so avoid catastrophic gravitational collapse , but it was difficult to believe that this always happened , no matter how big the star . |
| 18 | In some cases they may worsen the situation for market participants by reducing liquidity in an unanticipated way which offsets any benefits arising from a closer " fit " to investment needs . |
| 19 | In some cases they may not wish to . |
| 20 | in some cases you may have to take out additional cover for accidental damage , so make sure you know exactly what you are getting for your money . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In some cases you may want to add further information : books are published in Cambridge England and Cambridge USA , so saying just " Cambridge " may not be helpful ; add country details if you think there is a possibility of confusion . |
| 24 | So for farming rare species : it depends how it is done ; avoid it if you can but in some cases it may be necessary . |
| 25 | In some cases it may be necessary to resort to three or four injections of short-acting insulin . |
| 26 | In some cases it may be necessary to refuse outright . |
| 27 | In some cases it may result in a selective growth defect in the affected joints . |
| 28 | in some cases it may be appropriate but if you 're forcing people to make comments just because there 's a space to do it |
| 29 | In some cases it may so horrify the husband that he ca n't cope and slopes off . |
| 30 | In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text . |