Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government authorities blandly suggest that it may not be quite that long because there may soon be so few salmon to net that the sea fishermen will pack in their licences as they will be uncommercial . |
| 2 | Recent changes in the party system , however , suggest that there may still be situations in which it may be necessary for the Prerogative of appointment to be exercised in accordance with the independent judgment of the Queen and her advisers . |
| 3 | Even now , however , he is prepared to accept that he may not be able to come back in a new guise after three years . |
| 4 | We realise that you may well make your Family Fast Day offering through your parish . |
| 5 | Some people leave it very late to discover that they may not be aggressive/intellectual/pragmatic enough to succeed in their particular company . |
| 6 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 7 | This is because the law accepts that it may not always be in the best interests of a patient to receive further invasive , or aggressive , treatment . |
| 8 | A much higher proportion of Bristol women had been treated with mastectomy , suggesting that they may also have had more extensive , but undetected , disease than was recorded . |
| 9 | Often the only paid member is the chairman , suggesting that he may really be in charge . |
| 10 | I have chosen to give details only of those of whose standards and courses I have personal knowledge , but I would emphasize that there may also be other places which are also of a very high standard . |
| 11 | But even some admirers were puzzled by the aggressively public way he has pursued it , the more so since he has been careful to acknowledge that there may not be enough rebels to defeat the Government 's legislation with — ‘ a sad day for me ’ — Labour 's help . |
| 12 | Although it may seem that her greatest loss may be that of her husband , it is usually recognized that she may well be unable to look at the implications of his death until she has dealt with those that happened before he died . |
| 13 | Given that artists such as Sonia Boyce , Brenda Agard and Jennifer Comrie were first brought to a wider public 's notice in these exhibitions curated by Lubaina , it is not surprising that we owe her a debt which , given the current backlash against Blackwomen 's Creativity , we fear that we may never be able to repay . |
| 14 | Should there be an upheaval in the Ingard group now , I fear that we may never know . " |
| 15 | But no more extensions are expected , and with most WIPers older than 40 , those who do not negotiate a contract during this time fear that they may never work again as scientists . |
| 16 | I fear that I may not be able to take part in the debate as I intend to cause trouble for the Government over Oxleas wood , which is in my constituency and that of the hon. Member for Woolwich ( Mr. Cartwright ) , but I hope that my hon. Friend will regard my support as being with him throughout the debate . |
| 17 | He will be surprised — I fear that he may even be disappointed — by the figures that we shall announce next week , which specify the output that we expect from housing associations in 1992-93 . |
| 18 | But I fear that you may not be able to do that . |
| 19 | Er and therefore erm I think we 'd like to some degree wait and see a bit still because er I think that you know economic circumstances of this particular moment mean that we may just have to consider that further of seeing how things progress really between now and October . |
| 20 | It mean that we may not be able to rejoice in what is happening now . |
| 21 | But the fact that we can perceive no connection does not , for Locke , mean that there may not be one there . |
| 22 | A second recognised that she may actually have chosen a philandering partner because she 's frightened of lifetime exclusivity herself . |
| 23 | But being watch 'd that it may still go right ! |
| 24 | Farmers in East Anglia , one of the regions most affected by the drought , hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season to safeguard this year 's crops . |
| 25 | But hope that it may not be necessary , that Edward will never get so far . |
| 26 | I hope that you may now be encouraged to experiment with weaving , and it may help you to use up those oddments of hand knitting yarn which you do n't have time to knit . |
| 27 | Preservation of the status symbol for the instructor ( who may feel that he may no longer be of service if the ultimate user becomes fully proficient in the handling of the system ) . |
| 28 | Finance have now said that there may not be enough money left in computing budget to cover this order . |
| 29 | They choose the following extract and ask you to submit a target version of it , stating that they appreciate that you may not have had time to read the whole novel but that they just want to see how you might handle Le Carré 's language . |
| 30 | Due to the conserved structure and the occurrence of identical insertion sites of mitochondrial introns , it has been speculated that they may already have existed in the progenitor of fungal mitochondria ( 7 ) . |