Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government have cut unemployment benefit 11 times since 1979 , making a cumulative ’ saving ’ — if I may use that word — at the expense of the unemployed , of £5 billion to £6 billion over the past decade . |
| 2 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 3 | Is my hon. Friend — if I may use that term — sure that a solution put forward in this House would be accepted in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic ? |
| 4 | This is only a reflection of larger areas of the church above , that 's if I may use that phrase , which is happening . |
| 5 | You may think that noise just has something to do with an airport at Stanstead , but it is n't . |
| 6 | Although you may feel that Page 3 models , pornographic magazines , videos and films have no relevance to your life , and certainly no relevance to your obsession with losing weight or remaining slim , it is easy to see how such images of womanhood can contribute to a sense of vulnerability to rape , or just confusion over whether having breasts and thighs means you are always sexually available . |
| 7 | If you use range on the from file to copy it , you may change that file , save and forget to range value to a different range . |
| 8 | so that you may find that father is n't up to it today |
| 9 | It will probably be very untidy ( and you may need that ability to cope with unfamiliar attitudes ) but you should not be concerned at this stage with what it looks like , only what it does . |
| 10 | You may recall that Bachop was outstanding during the World Cup , but it should be noted that he was playing for Western Samoa , not New Zealand . |
| 11 | In the previous chapter you may recall that job loss in manufacturing started in the mid-1960s . |
| 12 | If Inspector Miskin is required to make notes , then she may find that chair by the window convenient . |
| 13 | We are sometimes scared that , if we tell the other person what we think , we may hurt that person . |
| 14 | One day we may meet that villain , or the many like him , and have to fight for our very lives . |
| 15 | Of the scientific Discourses at the Royal Institution some were describing original research , occasionally very new as when J. J. Thomson reported in 1897 the discovery of the electron ( if we may allow that phrase ) ; others were in the nature of a review of recent work . |
| 16 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |
| 17 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 18 | It is still too early to evaluate the importance of these variations , however , they may indicate that CytR is a flexible protein . |
| 19 | ICL is to offer a shrink-wrapped version of Unix SVR4 on its so-called ‘ Spring Collection ’ of deskside and desktop Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers and servers launched recently , and says it may offer that implementation on other manufacturers ' PCs too . |
| 20 | It may transpire that tightening ( raising ) the weak overlap threshold produces more concise definitions in some domains , whereas in others valuable information in the original definitions starts to be lost . |
| 21 | This needs serious appraisal because it may indicate that recovery is far more fragile than might have been appreciated . |
| 22 | Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ . |
| 23 | It is important to remember that illness does not strike ‘ out of the blue ’ even though it may seem that way at times . |
| 24 | It may seem that Community law is somewhat remote from us as individuals and is irrelevant to our daily lives . |