Example sentences of "[conj] may [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Dr Richard Neilman of the Nazelden Foundation in Minneapolis identifies the following eight characteristics : The sufferer thinks frequently of the next opportunity for use or may make specific resolutions not to use . |
2 | They may be proteolytic degradation products of ATF1 or CREB or may represent novel bZIP proteins . |
3 | Assistance may only be granted , however , where the Commissioner believes that the breach of rule about which the member is complaining is one which affects or may affect other members of the union or that similar breaches of the rules have been or may be committed in relation to other members of the union . |
4 | Those who play aleatory music ( where the composer may use only graphic signs , or may suggest certain note-groups , to be played in a certain way , or even perhaps as the player wishes ) may also have a stock-in-trade of musical gestures which will help them produce a convincing result in any situation . |
5 | The trustees may refuse to accept her as a beneficiary or may require any benefits to be divided with other individuals . |
6 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
7 | It does , interestingly , erm , as I think I mentioned earlier , it does associate with other auto-immune diseases and thus one can have somebody with miocenia gravis who may themselves have over active thyroid , which is an auto-immune disease , or may have other members of the family with the same disorder . |
8 | Other people can often offer good ideas or may have useful experience from which you can benefit . |
9 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
10 | The frequency with which controversial legislation is amended by Parliament itself ( as witness the Act of 1974 which was amended in 1975 as well as in 1976 ) indicates that legislation , after it has come into operation , may fail to have the beneficial effects which Parliament expected or may produce injurious results that Parliament did not anticipate . |
11 | Research work also continues on serotonin secretion by the brain and on drugs that may affect that process . |
12 | Finally , there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times . |
13 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
14 | However , training is the tool that may enable greater awareness of NACAB policies and their relevance ; through training both the long-term aims of the association and the immediate aims of the adviser might be achieved , but conflict arises when there is insufficient time for both . |
15 | ( 1991 ) have analysed various industrial policy measures that may achieve these ends , including direct and indirect subsidies to producers as well as standard protectionist measures such as tariffs , quotas , and non-tariff barriers . |
16 | Pilots may not fully appreciate the nature of manoeuvre-induced errors ( frequently called instrument lag ) that may effect pressure-dependent flight instruments during manoeuvres which result in a change of angle of attack . |
17 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
18 | Strangely , this section does not mention modification of childbearing patterns among the measures that may serve this goal , while expressly stating that : " Sustained reductions in fertility have generally been preceded by reductions in mortality . |
19 | Because of the perceived significance of augmentation of basal UOS pressure as a mechanism that may prevent gastro-oesophageal reflux , we performed an analysis of the effects of oesophageal distention and acidification on basal UOS pressure . |
20 | the ending may seem quite unconvincing , with the prospect of their marriage , but there are a few clues from Pip 's first meeting with her till then that may suggest some development . |
21 | In some species males and females consort socially in long-term relationships that may last many years . |
22 | Very recent taxonomic observations , though , have identified a population of pigs in northern Kenya and Somalia that may match this description . |
23 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
24 | Secondly , much of the evidence presented in the editorial ( and this letter ) is based on hypotheses derived from models of invasion and metastasis that may bear little relation to the function of metalloproteinases in vivo . |
25 | As we approach retirement , we are in an age range that may encompass another kind of loss and sense of loneliness — the death of parents . |
26 | In other words , the system of competitive vote bidding acts like a ratchet encouraging ever more government services at the same time as it penalises a government prepared to take " tough " decisions that may hit particular interests in the short run even though these decisions may work to the advantage of all in the longer run . |
27 | In one small area in Nigeria , each nest is a cluster of towers and minarets grouped around a central spire that may rise twenty feet high . |
28 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
29 | This need to deal with a tricky political environment has often led to managerial centralization of decisions that may have political overtones , and a consensual style of leadership based around committee structures ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
30 | Morals from this episode that may have some parallels with the test-tube fusion story of 1989 include the delicate balance between the world of science and the media . |