Example sentences of "[noun pl] may [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions , but using an entirely different legal framework . |
| 2 | Secondly , the wording of the Convention is vague and decisions in individual cases may very largely depend on the preferences of the individual judges involved . |
| 3 | Without the incentive to employ workers for whom no national insurance contributions are payable , employers may more rationally decide on whether new job opportunities warrant full- or part-time status . |
| 4 | Courts may more readily accept that fiduciary duties have been modified or excluded in the context of a commercial agreement between parties of equal status28 than where the customer is inexperienced . |
| 5 | It is worth noting in this context that the TEI does not at this stage plan to develop any software to support the scheme , independence of software being a prime design goal ; subsequent phases of this or successor projects may well however elect to do so . |
| 6 | These complexities may very well complicate the implementation process . |
| 7 | However , the same adjectives may perfectly well instantiate the P in ( 22 ) , in combination with the same nouns . |
| 8 | Their enemies may well then start to temper their hatred with a little respect . |
| 9 | The Family equivalents to the more recently established Anonymous Fellowships may not yet exist in this country or certainly be very rare outside major cities even if , as in anorexia , the primary problem may be life-threatening . |
| 10 | It argues that even though the Italian authorities may no longer bail out any old bank that gets into trouble , the likelihood of government support for big banks has not changed enough to affect its ratings . |
| 11 | Some phenomena may simply not lend themselves to this kind of analysis . |
| 12 | Similar strategies may eventually also allow screening for NHPCC , peutz-jeghers , and juvenile polyposis one the responsible genes have been identified . |
| 13 | Multiples such as W.H. Smith will certainly not miss the boat but the more traditional , book-focused groups may not even know there is a boat to catch . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the figures for press articles and radio and television programmes may not adequately reflect the importance of these as sources of information , since the majority of such features were produced either before or after the Survey period . |
| 15 | These rules may not much resemble the traditional grammatical rules of school textbooks but rules they are none the less . ’ |
| 16 | Experience shows that clients may not immediately express the real reason for their visit but need to be given a chance to raise further problems . |
| 17 | POU family proteins may not only function as transcription factors . |
| 18 | Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations . |
| 19 | Henley is keen to consult nominating organisations to determine how candidates may most usefully develop themselves and benefit their organisations . |
| 20 | This 4-tuple I' of coordinates in the TV images may not actually correspond to any real point in the 3-dimensional space of possible positions for the torch , but that does not matter . |
| 21 | Clothes that suit teenagers may no longer suit the forty-five-year-old , but she , in turn , is able to carry off fashions that youngsters would not have the poise or elegance to wear . |
| 22 | You can buy just about everything you ever need in Funchal , but you may have to search to find it — many shops may just recently have run out of the very product you want , so that you have to search for a shop which still has old stock until more is imported . |
| 23 | Biochemical differences between the groups of animals may thus not have such a simple meaning as learning versus non-learning — even if the biochemical effects can be themselves regarded as unequivocal . |
| 24 | As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) . |
| 25 | As the entries may not necessarily fit on one physical line , they may be continued by following any closing square bracket with a minus sign ( as shown in the example ) . |
| 26 | Among other things , frequent births and short birth intervals may obviously also induce some physical hazards for mothers , however , the effect is not well documented . |
| 27 | Purists may just possibly consider the analogy with Kipling 's powerful verse a bit over the top , bordering on the hyperbole , but what matter ? |
| 28 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 29 | Parents may understandably often try to deny the reality of their black children 's unhappiness because they like to think that their children are secure and happy , thus reflecting their success as adopters . |
| 30 | Parents may therefore voluntarily agree to give notice before recovering their children . |