Example sentences of "[coord] may [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |
| 2 | As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them . |
| 3 | The YF-22 was conceived in the days of the cold war , and many of its exotic features were developed to defeat predicted Soviet advances that may or may not now materialise . |
| 4 | Equally , if , in a particular case , you suspect that your costs draftsman may not have been particularly brave where care and control is concerned , or may not fully appreciate what has been involved , do not hesitate to increase the care and control element to the level you think is justified . |
| 5 | The user may find a book on a subject but it may not be what he really requires or may only partially satisfy his needs . |
| 6 | These are a different species , which do not contain as much of the herbal essence , or may indeed not contain any . |
| 7 | By acting as agent the purchaser will overcome the problem that the vendor no longer has the books and records of the business and may no longer have any accounting staff . |
| 8 | His reckless stance cost Britain a BILLION pounds propping up the pound and may well yet force up interest rates . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I think that the influence of Matisse is something which is far more elusive and may not yet have been expressed in painting . |
| 10 | The relevant constitutive treaty may be bilateral and may not even satisfy the criteria for a dispositive treaty . |
| 11 | Some of those universities who do demand a dissertation may not deposit copies with the British Library , and may not even have a copy available for inter-library loan . |
| 12 | Probably in this case ( as in many others ) the parties and their lawyers were not familiar with the distinction and were just confused , and may not even have realised that there is a distinction . |
| 13 | Psychologists and philosophers unfamiliar with AI typically underestimate the procedural-representational complexity of human and animal minds , and may not even realize that there are unsolved computational problems related to everyday psychological descriptions . |
| 14 | You could partition off part of the tank for the other fish but this would detract from the overall appearance and may not necessarily work . |
| 15 | The absence of tools , particularly from graves , may actually point more to the decisions which lie behind the choice of grave-goods to be interred with the dead ; tools have a very high use-value and may not therefore have been disposed of in this manner . |
| 16 | Other parents use humour and may even deliberately say the opposite of what is required in the knowledge that the child will then do the reverse of the request : ‘ I really do n't think you should eat that last spoonful ’ will challenge children to prove their parents wrong and consequently finish their meal . |
| 17 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 18 | Ana likes you and may very well confide in you . |
| 19 | But , ’ he added wryly , ‘ I have it in mind that so he is , and may very well have had the hardihood to play it so . ’ |
| 20 | At the very top are those superior employees — librarian , tutor , governess , lady 's companion — who not only work but live on the family side of the house , and may sometimes even eat at the family table . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock will want Mr Prescott 's national executive support — and may sometimes even need his constructive criticism . |
| 22 | If the former , then consumers have money in their bank accounts or pockets that they do not know what to do with and may therefore not mind increased taxation to pay for schools , hospitals , and the social services . |
| 23 | Many subsequently returned to their homes , all over the Soviet Union , where the local doctors may not know that they worked at Chernobyl and may therefore not recognise subsequent cancers or other problems as radiation-linked . |
| 24 | A few treasure hunters are also acting illegally ( for example , by using a metal detector in Britain on a scheduled ancient monument ) and may therefore sometimes conceal the find spot altogether or even falsify one . |
| 25 | He also used to do daytime television game-shows of glaring naffness , and may indeed still do so . |
| 26 | Barrier reefs may not only lie some distance off major land masses , as shown in Fig.8.33 and exemplified in the Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland coast which is almost 2000 km ( 1250 miles ) long and up to 1000 m ( 1000 yards or more ) wide , but may also completely encircle non-coral islands or groups of non-coral islands , one of the best examples of which is the Truk group in the Caroline Islands ( Fig. 8.34 ) . |
| 27 | This odd looking engine named Ant ended its days at Hutch Bank Quarry but may also well have been the Ant that worked on the Brooks Quarries lines about Cloughfield . |
| 28 | The policies in these have to be the starting point but may well not give the final answer . |
| 29 | Following call , candidates can call themselves barristers but may not yet practise as such . |
| 30 | Biography is in that sense a convenient fiction since no one can probe , without the risk of farcical failure , those hidden perceptions or experiences which run alongside the observable life but may not necessarily touch it . |