Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] [pers pn] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us . |
| 2 | No matter how ethereal they may seem , they do not exist in a timeless limbo but possess determinate antecedents in time and space . |
| 3 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 4 | However , your sister , Lady Merstam , is my client and I must point out to you both that , no matter how unlikely you may think it , Mr Keynes could betray your confidence . |
| 5 | She says the volunteers who answer the phone are prepared to deal any problem a child contacts them with , no matter how small it may seem . |
| 6 | Please forward any information , no matter how insufficient it may seem to ‘ Greater broad backed bookworm enquiry ’ QPBC bookstall . |
| 7 | Prompt antibiotic treatment , aggressive resuscitation , and debridement of the surgical wound , no matter how clean it may appear on the surface , is essential for successful management . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 9 | It does not matter how silly you may think they are , if it 's something you are unsure about or have wondered why , please let us help . |
| 10 | I expect Winifred Shalcross was right , however strange you may think it , when she said I was overconscientious . |
| 11 | Thus the Lacanian account of the impossibility of desire often cites the following passage from Freud 's ‘ On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love ’ : ‘ It is my belief that , however strange it may sound , we must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavourable to the realization of complete satisfaction , ( vii . |
| 12 | In a society so deeply divided by class ( and gender and race ) inequalities , and increasingly dominated by the privatised technological culture of late capitalism , the social purpose orientation alone is now inadequate , however admirable it may have been in the past . |
| 13 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 14 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 15 | It is from Hear The Children Calling and sums up the real reason for both Carrie and the other children 's doings , however murderous they may have seemed … |
| 16 | Form thus becomes a condition of non-form and , however stable it may seem , all that can be observed in our universe is the existential process of change from one state to another . |
| 17 | However suicidal they may feel , there is a lifeline ; a sympathetic listener on the end of a phone 24 hours a day . |
| 18 | Often many years elapsed before the village farmers built their new houses , however inconvenient it may have been to live in the centre of the parish and to farm on the boundaries . |
| 19 | First , the Europeans , however flabby they may appear , already have some troops on the ground in ex-Yugoslavia : troops who might be greatly endangered by American air strikes . |
| 20 | I did n't ring your family with the sole intention of provoking another of your temper tantrums , however entertaining I may find them . |
| 21 | However ironic it may seem , the same corporate power so often targeted by these protests may be ensuring that such protest art has a guaranteed place in those museums . |
| 22 | However nervous she may have felt inside , her warm smile and unaffected manner were a photographer 's delight . |
| 23 | ‘ La Malfa 's resignation just shows that anyone who has been involved in government for so long can be involved ( in corruption ) , however pure he may claim to be , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It was the first of such actions , however vague it may appear in remote retrospect , which introduced the concept of ‘ evil ’ . |
| 25 | Structuralist variants of the Marxist tradition are characteristically informed by ‘ dialectical materialism ’ , however sophisticated they may have become in their onward development . |
| 26 | Any claim that a certain state or government , regime or society is " really " or " in the last analysis democratic , however implausible it may seem , must involve the implication that in some way or other the government , regime or state in question serves or represents the people ; that the " real " will of the people is expressed through it , or that the people support it , even if this support is not necessarily demonstrated through such formalities as elections . |
| 27 | UTOPIA has ideas for the improvement of twentieth-century life while NUMEROSO is suspicious of attempts to set the future into a mould , however good it may seem . |
| 28 | Of course we all need sufficient to live on — and it is hard to be joyful if those basic needs are not met — but , however trite it may sound , there is much joy to be found in a spring day , the expression on a baby 's face or the touch of a loved one 's hand . |
| 29 | Try to keep regular hours , getting up at the same time however tired you may feel . |
| 30 | New boys , however grand they may have been before entering the House , go to the back of the queue . |