Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] may [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 2 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 3 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 4 | Again , some of these processes occur in normal adolescence and indeed even all of them may occur in some people in the absence of drug use , although this is improbable . |
| 5 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 6 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 7 | Erm sort of I may deal with sort of solicitors letter , that sort , the , the more complicated legal side , and , and that sort of thing . |
| 8 | A DoT spokesman said : ‘ These trips of his may sound like jolly larks , but he is being very irresponsible . |
| 9 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 10 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 11 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 12 | Erm , some of us may go to tomorrow and |
| 13 | Some of us may compensate for this by driving our cars like dervishes or creating dramas in our personal lives . |
| 14 | Some of us may see in these bloodied simian faces the image of our own hunting ancestors . |
| 15 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 16 | It sounds like you may benefit from looking at some time management strategies for coping more effectively at work , and also looking at how you could be more assertive in order to limit the demands colleagues make on you . |
| 17 | In conditions of rising population , such as we may assume for most of this period over most of Europe , land is scarce and labour plentiful , and the lords may commonly compel land-hungry peasants to accept their terms . |
| 18 | The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install . |
| 19 | What kind of right to the goods must the plaintiff have in order that interference with it may amount to conversion ? |
| 20 | This introduction to a scene and the gradual unfolding of the action within it may seem to be a rather academic restriction on the freedom of the cameraman , but it is a most important movie-making technique because it gives the viewer the feeling of involvement as a participant in the exploration of the location . |
| 21 | A family centre is a place where a child and his parents or those caring for him may go for occupational , social or recreational activities , or for advice , guidance or counselling . |
| 22 | The remit of the training scheme and those responsible for it may end at the transition point to operational activity or may continue in those periods of work regarded as a continuation of training and supervised as such . |