Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | A subdivision of so large a province may well have seemed desirable in purely pastoral terms . |
| 2 | Nevertheless such a contract may be frustrated at common law . |
| 3 | Similarly many a bureau may have to close their doors an hour before their official closing time in order to be able to leave the bureau not too many hours after closing time . |
| 4 | Opposite the fire-place was a table , which I should call a Pembroke , only that it was made of deal , and I can not tell how far such a name may be applied to such humble material . |
| 5 | Equally important , perhaps , has been the failure to realise adequately that , however intellectually attractive a technology may be , it will never be a commercial success unless a market for it exists or can be created . |
| 6 | If the employer is looking to make a judgement on a candidate 's power of invention and imagination then such a question may be relevant but this is open to question if he is seeking to appoint a solid contracts officer . |
| 7 | ( Sometimes such a merger may be partially financed by selling off parts of the company — see later in the chapter . ) |
| 8 | As we have seen , the establishment of a habit can create a situation where a horse refuses to think — irrespective of how intelligent a horse may be , and even if solving the problem is in the horse 's own interests . |
| 9 | Yet such a conclusion may raise more questions than it answers . |
| 10 | Yet such a comment may need to be made , nevertheless , to point out the quality of a picture . |
| 11 | It is no accident that there is a similarity between the diagnostic test , above , and the claim which used to be advanced in transformational grammar to the effect that an attributive adjective incorporated in a noun phrase is derived from some such structure as : ( 6 ) the N present BE ADJ This proposal was questioned quite early in the development of transformational grammar ( see Berman , 1974 ) , and a major reason for this was precisely the fact that too many phrases with attributive adjectives were discovered where the derivation does not seem to be usable ; as we shall see later , there are other reasons why such a derivation may not work , apart from the issue discussed here . |
| 12 | However straightforward a fence may be , it is important that the horse jumps it correctly and does not simply ‘ hurdle ’ it . |
| 13 | Evidently such a matrix may be written |
| 14 | Whatever else such a strategy may achieve , it certainly does not manage to produce a situation in which children are politically indistinguishable from adults and it rests on premises which , unless they can be defended , gain nothing for any defence to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 15 | Millions of people work away from their desks , so the situations where such a computer may be appropriate are widespread . |
| 16 | There must always be the fear that , however good a writer may be involved , the depiction of mental handicap will be unrealistic because the writer will have no real understanding about the subject . |
| 17 | However good a child may feel about themselves , they are small and totally dependent on their parents . |
| 18 | However knowledgeable a surveyor may be , his skills will be limited unless he can communicate . |