Example sentences of "[prep] they may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | Other long-tail types impair flight and show greater sexual dimorphism , but variation in their initial evolutionary cost suggests differences in how female preferences for them may have evolved . |
| 3 | Help for them may include : |
| 4 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 5 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 6 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 7 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 8 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 9 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 10 | ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray . |
| 11 | Er and one of them may decide that he was going to another job anyway , you know , and he would leave and somebody else would be brought in and what have you . |
| 12 | The three quarks inside a proton normally do not have enough energy to change into antielectrons , but very occasionally one of them may acquire sufficient energy to make the transition because the uncertainty principle means that the energy of the quarks inside the proton can not be fixed exactly . |
| 13 | Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election . |
| 14 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 15 | Some of them may involve social policies ; others may involve environmental policies on which we shall have to give ground during the next 10 , 15 or 20 years . |
| 16 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 17 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
| 18 | Some of them may become teachers in schools , and may , as a result of those interests , welcome a greater emphasis on the teaching of knowledge about language . |
| 19 | Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them . |
| 20 | Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees . |
| 21 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 22 | Some of them may have been the fathers of the running children . |
| 23 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 24 | The windows are interesting , with their association with the wool trade , though there is some speculation that some of them may have been brought from another house . |
| 25 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 26 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 27 | We are , though , left with the question of exactly which orchestra we have had the pleasure of listening to : while the back cover of the jewel case states that both works have been played by the Canadians under Barshai , the inner notes suggest ( unbelievably ) that one of them may have been performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Norman Del Mar ! |
| 28 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take-over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . |
| 30 | It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so . |