Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitive Bowling : Having developed a taste for bowling you may wish to consider bowling in a league . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 4 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So for instance you may have real-time . |
| 7 | Boswell argues back that ‘ A man , as a machine , may have agreeable sensations ; for instance he may have pleasure in music . ’ |
| 8 | If an estate agent is convicted under the act the client does not automatically have a right of action in civil proceedings for loss which may have been brought about as a result of the offence . |
| 9 | For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow ? … |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The complete absence of information makes it very difficult to uncover the processes of change which may have been at work among the peoples north and south of the Trent during the reign of Eadwine , but it is inconceivable that Eadwine was able to extend his hegemony southwards without first achieving domination of the Mercians . |
| 13 | The arms may be covered by a thin covering of skin which may obscure the plates . |
| 14 | Here Hilton is more concerned with advising formal patterns of prayer which may help the recluse towards the ability to meditate , though all the time his description of the exercise of spoken prayer is informed by an excited awareness of a form that needs no words in its joyful and peaceful awareness of God . |
| 15 | At such moments participants find their ‘ public ’ voice and do not need the kind of protection they may have relied on earlier . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Such an interpretation of the law of karma which may have satisfied orthodox Hindus is rejected by Gandhi out of hand , for he finds it inconceivable to divorce morality from religion . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Of course one may draw on the past as one will . |
| 20 | With this of course one may agree . |
| 21 | Of course one may have bad luck , and a less interesting route may be taken , and I fear that happened to her . |
| 22 | Of course we may say of someone that he is imaginative if he is original and spontaneous , and if his work is expressive . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Of course you may borrow the house , and I wo n't mention it to anyone . ’ |
| 26 | Of course you may specify a time : ‘ Come away from the edge of the platform immediately ! ’ , |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I must be mad , Mrs Phelps told herself , but to Matilda she said , ‘ Of course you may try it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why , Ruth , of course you may take it ! ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |