Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famous photograph of the 72-year-old Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue at the camera inspired an Australian film-maker who ( for reasons he may come to regret ) has adopted the name of Yahoo Serious to make Young Einstein ( PG ) , a mock-heroic biopic dedicated to ‘ the genius rebel with a clowning sense of humour ’ . |
| 2 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
| 3 | Pausanias thought Myrtilos was under the heads of Oenomaus 's horses , but since he certainly took the girl for male he may have meant her . |
| 4 | When the plan is being constructed and teachers are deciding upon success criteria for plans they may put searching questions and suggest additional ways to ensure that objectives become reality : if a school aims ‘ involve all pupils ’ are checks being made to see whether this is occurring ? |
| 5 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 6 | So for instance you may have already have a relational database management system , it may or may not be , but that information exists as a service or service provided on the network . |
| 7 | So for instance you may have real-time . |
| 8 | Boswell argues back that ‘ A man , as a machine , may have agreeable sensations ; for instance he may have pleasure in music . ’ |
| 9 | The other approach is to let the TB take its course in the badger population and compensate farmers for losses they may suffer as a result of TB spreading to their cattle from the badgers . |
| 10 | For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow ? … |
| 11 | The next letter from Miller , dated 2 February 1756 , acknowledged three from Bartram and two boxes of plants and he added ‘ To the first of your letters , I returned an answer in September last , but for fear it may miscarry , I beg leave to repeat the substance of that here . ’ |
| 12 | And with Forest still at the bottom of the Premier League , Clough insisted : ‘ If I 'd waited to offer him the contract after Saturday he may have blown it . |
| 13 | Furthermore , if by the nature of the goods and/or the work , any defects therein or any failure thereof to conform as aforesaid does not or would not become apparent ( despite the carrying out of any examination and/or such tests ) until after use we may reject the same even after a reasonable period of use . |
| 14 | ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce . |
| 15 | There are lots of reasons we may feel worried about this . |
| 16 | for all sorts of reasons it may fail to fulfil its potential . |
| 17 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 18 | ‘ We are looking for members of the Asian community who can provide memories of when they first came into the area , how they got employment , how the locals opened up to them , their first impressions of Britain and the problems of racism they may have encountered . ’ |
| 19 | By way of contrast we may note that between 1939 and 1959 , years which saw a major debate and official investigation of the subject , there were only two major books . |
| 20 | If a small child is asked to group a set of objects he may gather together items according to their colour ( for example , all brown objects ) or according to their normal use ( for example , all cutlery ) . |
| 21 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 22 | In the same way , ‘ of course we may pick up business if , say , the existing solicitor on one side or the other has no M&A expertise , and that will be a bonus . |
| 23 | It ties in with the fifth principle that ‘ personal data shall be accurate and , where necessary , kept up-to-date ’ — a formidable requirement , if taken literally , in view of the frequency with which personal details ( address , etc. ) can change , and also bearing in mind the possible diversity of sources of information ; and who but the data subject can be the true judge of accuracy — unless of course he may have an interest in falsifying the record ? |
| 24 | Of course you may borrow the house , and I wo n't mention it to anyone . ’ |
| 25 | Of course you may specify a time : ‘ Come away from the edge of the platform immediately ! ’ , |
| 26 | Of course you may get some probably some very good people a added , I do n't know wh wh wh they 'll be none of us knows , er they 're are going to nowhere that they 're going to get their expenses , they 're also going to get their allowances , I do n't know what those allowances will be er and I would n't assume that they 're necessarily going to lessen their independents because they receive allowances , but it is weakened , it is weakening the powers of the local institutions which are an essential part of our democratic society in this country . |
| 27 | I must be mad , Mrs Phelps told herself , but to Matilda she said , ‘ Of course you may try it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why , Ruth , of course you may take it ! ’ |
| 29 | Because of course it may seem , and very many people objected to him , that , if you adopt his sort of subjectivist views , erm you are perhaps deprived of any rational basis upon which you can criticize and condemn the actual way in which human beings conduct their affairs and organize their society . |
| 30 | Of course it may help feminists when , in a Christian invocation to worship , God is referred to as for example ‘ Creator , Redeemer and Sanctifier ’ . |