Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] may [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 2 | They are , therefore , formulaic in character and although they may call for some adaptation for contextual fit they are not composed on each occasion from constituent parts . |
| 3 | Its use for examination purposes is clearly a rather restricted justification , although it may account for much of the labelling of ‘ failure ’ which the working-class child experiences . |
| 4 | Although it may cry for a short time , it should settle down and sleep before long . |
| 5 | ‘ My lord , if I may speak for Shrewsbury , both abbey and town , I must tell you how grateful we are that Saint Winifred fell into such noble hands as yours . |
| 6 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 7 | If I may digress for a moment , I refer him in turn to the successful water system invented by the Greeks at Pergamon . |
| 8 | Meaning lies in the mind , beyond words — just as one may search for a word to express one 's meaning . |
| 9 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 10 | The number of fully established senses is presumably finite at any one time ( though it may differ for different members of the language community , and at different times for the same speaker ) . |
| 11 | The Funding Council shall make such reports or returns and give such information to the Secretary of State as he may require for the purposes of the exercise of his powers and the performance of his duties under this Part of this Act . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Mitchell points out that it is of the nature of commitment to come to terms with what may count against one 's own beliefs as well as what may count for them . |