Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You never know , Mother ; I may one day move up into society . |
| 2 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 3 | And the happier you are , the higher the price you may one day have to pay . |
| 4 | And you may one day be the future leader . " |
| 5 | And is not the thought of , say , blue different from the thought of green in some way which we may one day be in a position to describe , just as we are now able to describe the causal conditions for the experience green which is different from the experience of blue ? |
| 6 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |
| 7 | The last observation about dictionaries or word lists is that they may under-represent similarities between different sign languages : for example , the American and British signs for WALK are quite different , but British signers would certainly use a sign resembling the American sign in certain contexts . |
| 8 | They may repeat operations at certain levels , ( a second interview or a re-offer ) ; they may double back , as when the company regrets them and later decides to re-establish contact ; and they may change vacancy . |
| 9 | Father Heidt feels women like Gloucester Cathedral Chaplain , Vivienne Faull , are being conned by the debate into believing they may some day be ordained . |
| 10 | It may all sound like some vague hippy philosophy but Levitation really believe what they say . |
| 11 | The argument is put forward that if a badger associates humans with food it may one day wander up to the wrong person , with fatal results . |
| 12 | It may misrepresent English and Irish experience to draw analogies between Spenser and current perspectives , but it equally is misplaced to deny that past and present discourses about Ireland possess noticeable similarities which have larger cultural consequences . |
| 13 | The real test for the polys will be what happens if the economy goes into recession , as it may next year , and unemployment rises again . |