Example sentences of "[pron] may [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 2 | As Family Development Nurses , we are still working within a system which is based on uniform structures and procedures which may not allow for the flexibility of approach , or the necessary degree of autonomy which is needed , to be always relevant to the needs of each individual or family . |
| 3 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 4 | So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first . |
| 5 | You may even qualify for a local authority grant ! |
| 6 | Follow South East Arts and you will be able to help judge these competitions next year , and if you 're enterprising enough yourself in nineteen eighty three , you may even qualify for an award yourself . |
| 7 | You may also qualify for a Mobility Allowance to help pay transport costs such as the Road Tax , or other grants such as an interest-free loan towards the purchase of a new car . |
| 8 | You may also qualify for some pension from the country you left . |
| 9 | ‘ You may not care for it much just now , but Biff Thacker will teach you to like it . ’ |
| 10 | There is also a rule for UB that you may not qualify for UB unless you are unemployed for at least 3 days of the social welfare week . |
| 11 | If you hold a full Great Britain licence but are currently disqualified in GB you may only apply for a provisional licence . |
| 12 | ‘ After I 've examined your ankle for damage , put a crêpe bandage round it if necessary , and discussed my proposed project a little further , you may certainly phone for a cab if you wish , although I shall be happy to drive you back myself at that stage . ’ |
| 13 | We may not ask for help by weeping , but our bodies may become helpless so that we have to be helped . |
| 14 | Next time we may well vote for the Scottish National Party , no more NUNGE . |
| 15 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 16 | We may never know for certain . ’ |
| 17 | Dashing to and from a busy job , frantically organising family commitments , domestic routines and social life to fit with working lives , we may often crave for the peace and simplicity of a solitary life . |
| 18 | Managers have different talents and abilities , and what may work for one may not work for another . |
| 19 | There is plenty of lacrimae rerum here , and one may legitimately wish for a touch of Dryden 's bluffness or of Pound 's impatient suspicion of the elegiac note . |
| 20 | They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations . |
| 21 | They may even wish for death , but they still care . ’ |
| 22 | When women have had many children , and are older , births of higher order may suffer not only the effects of the mother 's physical debilitation from excessive childbearing but , as noted above , in certain circumstances , they may also compete for sustenance unsuccessfully with older siblings . |
| 23 | The Blues want a partner for new signing Graham Harvey as the season reaches a crucial stage ; they may also move for an cross-channel centre-half as doubts about John McConnell 's fitness persist . |
| 24 | They may instead opt for a production , product or sales-orientation . |
| 25 | The land-based multi-warhead er missiles is a real issue that has to be tackled , er and they may either go for , this is very much up in the air , go for er distinct cuts in er Start one , or they may talk about limitations and then go for a Start two treaty . |
| 26 | The president and the vice-president are elected for one year and they are eligible for re-election , although they may not serve for more than three years . |
| 27 | They may not qualify for the names ‘ colonisers ’ or ‘ pioneers ’ , but great numbers of people have gone abroad from the county during this century . |
| 28 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 29 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 30 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |