Example sentences of "may become " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a very real risk that even at 15,000 feet the pilot may become unconscious , or at least incapable , from the combination of cold and lack of oxygen . |
| 2 | Occasionally the woman may not realise that this has happened , and so may become pregnant . |
| 3 | Couples share responsibility for family planning and may become more aware of how their bodies work . |
| 4 | Their bones may become fragile and break more easily leading to fractures of wrists , hips and bones in the spine . |
| 5 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 6 | He used to play baseball and he wears a white baseball cap that one day may become as famous as Pat Cash 's chequered headbands . |
| 7 | The destiny of another big race at this course , the Cesarewitch on 21 October , may become clearer after the performace of Beekman Street ( 1.30 ) . |
| 8 | The picture may become clearer next week but with the Jaguar share price at this level , shareholders should now take some profits . |
| 9 | They may become another African horror story , reported long after anyone is able to do anything about it . |
| 10 | Money will be spread more thinly and the companies may become more reluctant to fund minority appeal programmes , particularly big budget documentaries . ’ |
| 11 | They are being kept in cells under close observation because of fears that they may become suicidal or stage a protest . |
| 12 | It comes at a time of growing fear that Saatchi & Saatchi may become the subject of a takeover bid as a result of recent business problems . |
| 13 | It will run initially for three months but may become permanent if it seems to fulfil a need . |
| 14 | If ecstatic union with the other entails a liberating loss of inhibition and even loss of the self , by the very same token , it is then that desire may become most unaware of the plight of the other , especially when , as here , it is powerfully mediated through the pastoral genre . |
| 15 | Once a project is on a donor 's priority list it takes on a life of its own , and may become unstoppable . |
| 16 | We and our daily rhythms can respond to bright light and an appropriate use of this may become part of our armoury for speeding up adjustment of the body clock after a time-zone transition . |
| 17 | Rich creams are best avoided around the eyes as the skin absorbs too readily here and may become puffy . |
| 18 | Hungarians , Poles , Yugoslavs , and in time Czechs , are not drawn to the EC in the hope that it may become wider and looser . |
| 19 | At any time , a ‘ routine ’ journey may become an emergency . |
| 20 | Multiple layers of screening , much of it of dubious scientific validity , may become a routine feature of working life unless restraints are imposed by law , as some states have begun to do . |
| 21 | A 37-HOUR working week agreed yesterday for a group of engineering workers may become a benchmark in the national engineering dispute , now in its second month . |
| 22 | The defence lawyer , aged 41 , who comes from an old Berlin Jewish family , has impressive qualifications for what may become his most difficult case so far . |
| 23 | If left to stand , the flavours will combine but the nuts may become slightly soft . |
| 24 | Although these cheeses are very popular in Europe ( it is said that the average German eats 5kg/11lb of quark a year , accounting for half their cheese intake ) they may become a passing fad of the era of nouvelle cuisine in the UK . |
| 25 | Keep the opened jar in the refrigerator ; the tomatoes are packed in olive oil which may become cloudy , but this will not affect the flavour . |
| 26 | Perhaps for this reason , traditional fishermen generally try to release alive any captured dolphins , but if they are inside the net when it is closed , they may become entangled or trapped and drown . |
| 27 | Commercial banks everywhere are realising that profitable banks may become big , but not the other way round . |
| 28 | One of today 's hypotheses may become orthodox ; some new notion may sweep all before it . |
| 29 | And in the Muslim world , among people at large , the war may become ever more unpopular as it looks increasingly punitive and costly in terms of Arab life . |
| 30 | But some people worry that the private sector does not have enough cash to mop up much of this vast sale , while others fear that the government may become so involved with selling the state 's assets that it forgets about the pressing problem of widening its tax base . |