Example sentences of "may come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The infrastructure of permanent residential quarters , offices etc. may come later , but it might transpire that a ‘ floating base ’ would be more cost effective and enable better geographical coverage . |
| 2 | Many fear this attack may come later on , after the war on Iraq is over . |
| 3 | Scholarship may come later to them , but when it comes , it has a surer foundation . |
| 4 | Dumps are increasingly required to have special liners to stop moisture from seeping in ; to collect and treat any liquid that does get in ; to monitor the waste that is added to a dump ; and to provide for shutting down the landfill at the end of its life and cleaning up any environmental damage that may come later . |
| 5 | Some animals feed on living plants ; even if no animals come at first they may come later if plants begin to grow in the microhabitat . |
| 6 | One may come later — we must wait and see . |
| 7 | The commission , and the socialist Sam Brownes , may come later . |
| 8 | However , you may come here whenever you wish . |
| 9 | In years to come , when the new road has fallen into disuse and the plaque has been worn away by time , people may come here and wonder what is the hidden significance of the stones ; or maybe by then , they 'll have discovered that Stonehenge was built by some ancient farmer , commemmorating a new bypass . |
| 10 | That may come eventually . |
| 11 | If I may come tomorrow ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 13 | Communication to staff may come straight from the top , with the highest levels of management informing all employees of the move or top management may inform senior management who , in turn , hold meetings with supervisors to explain how and why the relocation exercise will take place . |
| 14 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 15 | Anxiety affects communicating as people going for an interview know only too well ; interviewees may come away feeling annoyed that their ability to respond fluently has been impaired and they have not done themselves justice . |
| 16 | An unsuccessful fishing is a most discouraging event to the dwellers in these remote western isles : hundreds leaving every year for the east coast ; when fortunate , they will be able to bring home with them , after clearing all expenses for board , etc. , more than enough to pay the rent of their crofts ; but in a bad year they may come away in debt to the curer . |
| 17 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 18 | It is then argued further that in non-mainstream , critical cinema , a new image-centred mode of signification , based on an alternative ‘ regime of pleasure ’ , may come increasingly to displace the most pervasive type of critical cinema which is modernist , discursive , and intellectualist . |
| 19 | Some foreign shareholders may come forward too . |
| 20 | Other rape survivors may come forward and the police may quite explicitly make the links : ‘ a second woman has told police at York that she was raped near the city 's university only 200 yards from the spot where a girl student was subjected to a brutal , 90-minute sex attack ’ ( Daily Telegraph ) . |
| 21 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 22 | These are the sort of men whose confidence may have suffered and who may come forward . |
| 23 | This effect may come partly through economic calculations not favouring risk-taking , and partly through the broader anti-entrepreneurial ethos of the upper class . |
| 24 | It may come sooner than the present management thinks . |
| 25 | The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred . |
| 26 | This is where talk and plans may come apart . |
| 27 | Awareness may come easily when you are experiencing the wonder of growing a plant from seed — it is a little less in the forefront of your mind when you are standing at the kitchen sink doing the washing up . |
| 28 | God knows , we may come together again one day ! ’ |
| 29 | There may be a hiatus in family or property matters or pressures that have been rumbling underground may come forcefully to the surface . |
| 30 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |