Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | To act in such a way is wrong because the employee may be denied a full opportunity to respond to every point being made against him . |
| 2 | There were a number of special difficulties in the successful accomplishment of what was very delicate work and , all in all , the collector of aquatint books is getting full value for money , high though the price may be . |
| 3 | If an observer interprets a piece of animal behaviour as either aggressive or altruistic he is , in effect , saying : " If that creature were a man I should describe his behaviour as aggressive or altruistic as the case may be . " |
| 4 | In many cases this would be impossible as the count may hold titles in two or more places ! |
| 5 | The right way to indicate its nature is , therefore , to give instances where it is present , and to describe its interaction with other parts of the system to which it belongs , in particular when the interaction leads to predictions which can be checked ; simple as the system may be , we shall find that successive interactions can swiftly lead to structures of quite satisfying complexity ( see Appendix B ) . |
| 6 | As diverse as the music may be , there is a seam of despondency in Stipe 's words , a world-weary tone of resignation . |
| 7 | Obvious as the proposition may sound , the aim is not always realized , or sometimes attempted , by departments with overlapping interests and markedly different histories and traditions . |
| 8 | A power to nonsuit is peculiar now to the county court and is useful where the plaintiff may have a good case but " his tackle is not in order " . |
| 9 | It was not an unhelpful intervention , Mr. Deputy Speaker , because one of the problems in dealing with the targeting of advertising is that advertisements aimed at adults will be less effective than the Minister may wish if they take account of the fact that children may be present . |
| 10 | However , the method is viable because the sample may be matched to objective criteria or proportions in a manner that is appropriate to the particular research exercise . |
| 11 | Container-grown evergreens , such as bays ( Laurus nobilis ) are especially vulnerable because the root-ball may freeze solid . |
| 12 | The division is not watertight since a project may be relevant to more than one area of research and , indeed there are overlapping themes and issues between many of the individual projects . |
| 13 | Good as the band may well be , they ca n't escape the fact that huge gigs are not the most enjoyable of experiences . |
| 14 | But there is some danger where co-operatives are created out of economic adversity , for the situation is then one of commercial crisis and , important though the rescue may be on general grounds , it is far from an ideal basis on which to promote the reputation of co-operatives generally , or of Co-operation as an alternative form of organisation . |
| 15 | Long drawn out and unpredictable as the process may be , it has one great advantage for the policy-maker . |
| 16 | Complicated as the system may appear from this superficial view , it is one which has to be used and therefore needs to be understood . |
| 17 | Forbidding though the prospect may be , he needs another talking shop — a commission whose function would be to draw up a definitive Russian constitution that could then be entrenched against the amending whims of the Congress . |
| 18 | This second problem is more dangerous than the first because the user may not realize that information is missing . |
| 19 | For the probabilistic syntax system compounds are troublesome since the window may not contain all of the compound . |
| 20 | Daunting though the terminology may seem , these offer the chance to defer tax for years , in some cases until the millenium . |
| 21 | 9 Although a group may be active and especially influential within a limited range of issues that are of pressing concern to it , such a group will take no part in a whole host of other issues where different groups will be active and influential . |
| 22 | At high levels of idiosyncratic skill ( flair see p. 245 ) analysis is particularly difficult because the practitioner may have little conscious awareness of how or why he achieves unusual success . |
| 23 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 24 | Black ink is best as the interviewer may want to take photocopies . |
| 25 | You can tell the solicitor and he will say or she will say to you Good I understand that or Have you thought of this or No you ca n't do that as the case may be . |