Example sentences of "[adv] it may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Danish government also claims that however much it may disagree with the grynd , it is unable to interfere in the domestic matters of the Faroe Islands . |
| 2 | Nobody could possibly offer a definite answer to this and say how long it may take to fully overcome anxiety and stress problems . |
| 3 | Moreover , ’ he continued , ‘ perhaps it may give you some time to reflect on the Lady Maude . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it may bring with it , too , release from the pressures to be competitive in the scramble for status and material goods and give instead greater ability to value those things which are true and lasting . |
| 5 | Very well ; perhaps it may have come to your notice that those self-same premises are at present vacant , and advertised to be let ? ’ |
| 6 | It will be a tight , hard game and perhaps it may take a replay before a decision is arrived at . |
| 7 | If we keep our nerve long enough it may give the police time to find out where they are being held . ’ |
| 8 | It will therefore affect what happens during the interview , and if it is not done well enough it may prevent you reaching the interview stage at all . |
| 9 | If a church is large enough it may support artistic performing groups and there is often a sense of responsibility for the education of that community 's children in language , traditional customs , crafts , music and dance . |
| 10 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |
| 11 | I want to have you about the house because I brought you a little souvenir from New York , only it may take a while to get it out of my suitcase . |
| 12 | I mean , of course there were things that were missed out I suppose , but also , I suppose , we were quite young , so it may have quite embarrassing and we did n't want talk about certain things . |
| 13 | If so it may save the planet from overheating . |
| 14 | And so it may seem that a child , without having learned the technique of using the word ‘ red ’ , might start by learning ‘ That looks red to me ’ ( 418 , 422 ) . |
| 15 | Thus it may perform the effective address calculation from the operand and addressing mode fields of the extracode , before entering the supervisor . |
| 16 | Thus it may have become the physical centre as well as the service centre for a considerable area of prime agricultural land near the junction of three units of local administration . |
| 17 | Thus it may need to borrow money , and its ability to do so may potentially be affected by an attack on its creditworthiness . |
| 18 | It may have refused to take into account something it was required to take into account or conversely it may have based its decision on something it was not entitled to take into account and so on … " |
| 19 | Superficially it may seem reasonable to prefer a firmly-held end to a faint altruistic stirring which is easily dismissed . |
| 20 | JET-engine giant Rolls-Royce warned yesterday it may switch some production abroad because of Britain 's currency crisis . |
| 21 | The softer stones of ancient cathedrals show how deeply it may cut ; and the rock from which the Sphinx was carved may have first been roughly shaped by desert winds , for the general outline follows precisely the aerodynamic flow of air over obstacles , swirling away at the end to leave a mass for the head ; and there are many rocks of similar form elsewhere . |
| 22 | Thus although possibly it may amount to a transfer of value it could not amount to a chargeable transfer and it is only upon chargeable transfers that inheritance tax is payable . |
| 23 | From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages . |
| 24 | HOLLOWAY women 's prison now has a nickname that is more telling than any it may have had in the past the Hilton . |
| 25 | Also it may mean that you have to pay in advance . |
| 26 | Alright , and will give , give rise to a delayed response , so even though prices may rise , farmers ' output response wo n't be immediate , right , not only because of the growing season that 's involved , but due , but due to psychological resistance , erm , to the adoption of that technology , and also it may take time to acquire the necessary skills to implement that technology . |
| 27 | It is like the 1867 Reform Act which enfranchised the ’ respectable ’ working class and similarly it may benefit the Conservatives electorally . |
| 28 | Hence it may make more sense for soldiers to be in the public sector than street-sweepers . |
| 29 | There is also the possibility that the invention represents only a modest ( but nonetheless patented ) improvement on the employer 's existing products ; hence it may take several years simply to recoup the research and development costs . |
| 30 | Hence it may have been endothermic . |