Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [vb infin] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are of course some deliberately emphasized exceptions : destitution , like that depicted in Alton Locke and Mary Barton , precludes decency ; moral turpitude may have the same effect , as in the case of Mrs Brown in Dombey and Son — ‘ In an ugly and dark room , an old woman , ugly and dark too ’ . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , an inacurrate plan that prevails over the verbal description may have the same effect as a verbal misdescription . |
| 3 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 4 | If you react angrily or aggressively , your child may do the same . |
| 5 | In the Arab world this is not so ; the managing director may use the same office as the general clerks , so the salesperson must be careful how he speaks to people ! |
| 6 | The skin on your face and body may seem the same but facial skin actually has more sebaceous glands to secrete natural oil and keep skin supple . |
| 7 | We are concerned that rehabilitation may face the same problems as re-introduction or re-stocking in conservation — difficult , expensive , and the results often uncertain . |
| 8 | Difference ( 4 ) — the interlinked corpus difference — leads to a problem with the name-space : one author may choose a name for an object , and another author may choose the same name for a completely different type of object . |
| 9 | An extremely aggressive person may suffer the same internal anguish as an extremely defensive person . ’ |
| 10 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 11 | ‘ … the biogeographer may study the same phenomena as the ecologist , but he usually places as much emphasis on the distributional aspects as on the environmental relationships in this study . |
| 12 | In certain contexts , the word apple may arouse the same mouth-watering reactions as the sight of the fruit itself . |
| 13 | They hold that the revelation was given through the cultural medium of one particular time , and that while the message may remain the same ( for example that one should love one 's neighbour ) this may require a different expression in a different age . |
| 14 | Two dangers with cliches such as ‘ May all their troubles be little ones ’ are that older members of the audience have heard them before and that the previous speaker may use the same joke or saying . |
| 15 | Since perfusion of glutamate into the hippocampus in vivo induces seizures , our results suggest that an increase in endogenous extracellular fluid glutamate may do the same . |
| 16 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |
| 17 | The song may remain the same , but the advice has well passed its sell-by date . |
| 18 | Speakers of Standard English in different parts of the British Isles and elsewhere in the world may use the same grammar and vocabulary , but different pronunciation . |
| 19 | Clarke ignored his experts advice , so his Canadian opposite number may do the same . |
| 20 | Thus it is possible that the chronic alcoholism reported in some socialist utopias in the East may have the same psychological roots as that so vividly described by the Spanish chroniclers of Inca Peru . |
| 21 | In the summer at high water temperature , nitrogen may do the same . |
| 22 | The vagaries of history may lead the same States to favour each policy in turn according to changing circumstances : newly-independent States may resist being held bound by treaties entered into on their behalf , and therefore tend to favour the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine of succession , although their economic and technical interests may be better served by treaty continuity . |
| 23 | Culture or social structure may change and child-rearing may remain the same . |
| 24 | American English may use the same words as ‘ English ’ English , but with a different meaning . |
| 25 | Both your own language and the target language may have the same kinds of systems but within these systems different distinctions are made . |