Example sentences of "[Wh pn] may [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 2 | Hospital staff rush here and there , tell them to wait , to walk down long forbidding corridors to see a doctor — whose name they have n't even been told — who may not even speak to them by name in a way they can understand . |
| 3 | To this end , we urge you not only to use the Line yourself for shopping , sightseeing etc. , but also to encourage your friends , acquaintances , neighbours and relatives , who may not even know of the existence of the Line , to use it . |
| 4 | She praises the risk takers , wealth creators , people who are frequently from modest backgrounds and who may not even have been at a university . |
| 5 | For the prospect of a retirement pension for all those presently under fifty years of age is looking distinctly forlorn we must protect the pension rights of all contributing members we must insist that trustees are elected from the shop floor and not appointed by some faceless director who may not even reside in this country . |
| 6 | Secretary Jim McDowell says he will still consider players who may not yet have had the chance to come forward for consideration . |
| 7 | This is designed for those applicants who may not necessarily possess any of the qualifications usually presented by mature students , but who show evidence of appropriate achievement either in a related professional field or through other types of intellectual endeavour . |
| 8 | The mother 's offer to cook the lunch may be a reassuring sign of the familiar to her son who may not long have departed from the parental home . |
| 9 | To this must be added the nature of the claimants themselves who may not fully comprehend the mechanics of such an appeal process . |
| 10 | The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves . |
| 11 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 12 | The answers provided by the ECJ will influence the degree of tolerance extended to women who may not always wish to or may not be able to control their fertility and yet are capable of combining paid work and motherhood if given the chance |
| 13 | Among ERA stockists — who may not always have it on every day — are the Bon Accord and Tennent 's Bar in Glasgow ; the Auld Hoose , Kinghorn ; the Woodside Inn , Blairgowrie ; and Betty Nicols , Kirkcaldy . |
| 14 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 15 | Those with faith are those who can ‘ see ’ , and who may therefore only engage in a limited dialogue with the ‘ blind ’ . |
| 16 | Very likely there was a general cut in wages brought about by a combination of causes , not the least of which was the loss of an employer who may very well have paid premium rates in order to attract and retain labour ; in any case the living standards of the cloth workers had fallen sharply by 1524 , and with them those of the farm labourers of the other villages in the district . |
| 17 | In recent years , attention has increasingly focussed on the needs of these carers , who may very much want to care but who may need practical help and advice as well as emotional support . |
| 18 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |