Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treshnish ignored Lachlan , bowed to Eachuinn Odhar with respect and asked , ‘ Duart , will you tell me now where I may find my daughter , who handfasted with Lachlan Cattanach a year ago ? |
| 2 | However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright . |
| 3 | There are many hill towns to explore including Abruzzo 's capital ‘ L ’ Aquila , where you may visit the great Spanish castle and a national museum . |
| 4 | I will shew you a region flowing with golde , where you may satisfy your ravening appetites . |
| 5 | It is a tester display unit on the counter , where you may sit , flick through a Personal Shade Selector book , and try any products yourself . |
| 6 | Outside is a lovely garden where you may eat in fine weather , and occasionally the hotel offers zither music during the evening . |
| 7 | Because cars take up room , they have the overall effect of spreading people out and making them more insular — driving to a distant supermarket in your car is a different experience to walking to the local shops , where you may meet other members of the community on the way . |
| 8 | At your reviews you will discuss the areas in which you are doing well and where you may need to improve . |
| 9 | Most should be obtainable at university/polytechnic careers offices , or at local reference libraries where you may need to request them . |
| 10 | Look critically at your environment , at your home and place of work and at the halls or rooms where you may have to attend meetings . |
| 11 | There are picnic areas along the way and a number of locations where you may join the line . |
| 12 | This involves stratagems for introducing competition where none may exist . |
| 13 | Where we may feel at a disadvantage compared with moral absolutists with fixed standards is not in the claim to objectivity but in the sense of certainty . |
| 14 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 15 | Where we may boast of our striving for perfection , Jesus had only humility . |
| 16 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 17 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 18 | Except in very specific cases Sidonius 's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption . |
| 19 | But even where there may seem to have been little affection shown and where few apparent links remain , emotional ties that go back to earliest days are strong , and feelings about the death of a parent are bound to go deep . |
| 20 | The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages . |
| 21 | The Tachykinins are a family of biologically active neuropeptides that are widely but selectively distributed in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems , where they may function as neurotransmitters ( 1 ) . |
| 22 | The range of political institutions and objectives is well discussed , although one could have wished for more emphasis to be placed on European Community matters and where they may lead us . |
| 23 | There has been a tendency more recently , however , for deaf people to be wary of consecutive interpreting where they may feel information is added to , or subtracted from , the message ( Allsop and Kyle , 1982 ) , even though for spoken languages it has usually been felt that consecutive interpreting is much more effective and much easier to check for the validity of the interpretation ( Herbert , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | Committal proceedings are supposed to test the soundness of the prosecution 's case but , on the whole , nothing of the kind is achieved because defence lawyers prefer to reserve their probing of the police case for the trial , where they may deploy the tactics of surprise to greatest effect . |
| 25 | Thus all M-H stretching frequencies decrease by several hundreds of cm -1 , and this can be used to confirm the group-frequency assignment of such modes , and also to remove M-H bands from regions where they may hide other bands . |
| 26 | Environmental management methods usually require a large workforce , are costly and are generally feasible only in townships and major commercial undertakings vital to the country 's economy , where they may prove more economical in the long run than the recurrent use of insecticides . |
| 27 | Where they may differ from their informal counterparts is in the amount of time spent on such studies or on the message given to the children and their parents that such activities are incidental to ‘ real ’ learning ( the mastery of arithmetical or grammatical skills ) . |
| 28 | Most originate in the US where they may find the regulatory authorities more amenable than in Europe . |
| 29 | And I think if any performers know any where they may find problems is if they 're still very much involved in the music industry , because it becomes a sort of er a diversionary activity . |
| 30 | Some pathogenic organisms may not manifest their disease-provoking properties in certain sites , where they may behave as commensals . |