Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [vb infin] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird . |
| 2 | Each adult citizen may have one vote but each vote was not of equal value . |
| 3 | The family should be distinguished from the household , since a family may live in one or more households and a household may include one or more families . |
| 4 | A sediment may exhibit one or more phases of any , or all , of these processes ; the task of the sedimentary petrographer is to unravel the different events , place these in a paragenetic sequence and then build on these in interpreting the burial history of the sediment . |
| 5 | For example , a test may have one or more of the following objectives : |
| 6 | In this event , the stratigraphy may indicate one environment , say , for example , a lake environment , and the fossils may indicate another , for example a terrestrial habitat of some kind from which bones have been transported to be preserved in the lake . |
| 7 | Government intervention may take one of two forms . |
| 8 | If the experience curve has effect , the initial market share gained through introduction of a differentiated product may give one time to build up a cost advantage . |
| 9 | The laws of war may provide one possible means ( though not the only one ) of achieving this difficult object . |
| 10 | The laws of war may have one other function in the contemporary era — helping to harmonise standards between allies . |
| 11 | Rules themselves may conflict with one another , and sabotage may break one ( usually formal ) rule whilst fulfilling some other informal expectation . |
| 12 | You may have forgotten to add a LIFESPAN header to the file or a package may reference one of the files contained in a foreign set rather than the foreign module header itself . |
| 13 | The changing marketplace may have one other useful impact on the culture . |
| 14 | My personal belief is that sadism may have one or both of two components : a need to dominate — to put another person into an inferior position and to assert oneself by inflicting pain — or a need to destroy arising from some inner hatred of self and/or others in general . |
| 15 | The court may order one or more issues to be tried before the others ( Ord 13 , r 2(2) ( c ) . |
| 16 | A vertical restraint may take one of two forms : one is unilateral imposition of substantive conditions for supply , for example a manufacturer saying ‘ you may not take my product X unless you also take my product Y ’ . |
| 17 | As such , a student may take one or two modules only or a whole set of modules specifically grouped together to meet the needs of a particular industry or employer . |
| 18 | The parameter count may take one of two forms . |
| 19 | A Shaman may have one magic item , a Shaman Champion may have two magic items , a Master Shaman may have three magic items , and a Shaman Lord may have four magic items . |
| 20 | A heading may take one of the following forms : |
| 21 | Political forces and corporate bodies may be more or less able to calculate the likely effects , ceteris paribus , of the implementation of their policies and demands , and the conservation/transformation effect is anyway likely to appear as the ‘ resultant vector ’ of non-coherent activities on the part of a whole range of such forces and bodies ( although , for instance , dominant positions within a government may give one political force more leverage than others ) . |
| 22 | A Mage may have one magic item , a Champion Mage may have two magic items , a Master Mage may have three magic items , and a Mage Lord may have four magic items . |
| 23 | Your army may include one unit of Phoenix Guards . |
| 24 | Your army may include one Mob of Big'uns . |
| 25 | Your army may include one Mob of Black Orcs . |
| 26 | Your army may include one unit of Knights of the White Wolf . |
| 27 | Your army may include one regiment of the Knights Panther . |
| 28 | Your army may include one unit of Reiksguard Knights . |
| 29 | Your army may include one regiment of the Knights of the Blazing Sun . |
| 30 | Your army may include one unit of Outriders from the Engineer 's School at Altdorf . |