Example sentences of "may look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws . |
| 2 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 3 | Enabling Mac applications to run on the Intel architecture would be a major task , and it is suggested that the pair may look primarily to the base of Windows applications because while software emulation is feasible , the only efficient way to run Mac applications would be to include a 68000 co-processor . |
| 4 | It may look again at relaxing restrictions on a repurchase market in gilts and on stock lending , both of which flourish in America . |
| 5 | Yeo conceded that the government may look again at creating a forum , but he considered it untimely to do so immediately . |
| 6 | They may look forward to good occupational pension , a significant state earnings-related pension and a cash sum from maturing insurance policies . |
| 7 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 8 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 9 | On top of that , Wright has his England future to worry about because much as he may look forward to an avalanche of goals against San Marino in February , first he must ensure his presence in the team , then be in control of himself when the chances come . |
| 10 | Children can not wait to be a year older ( ‘ I am five and three-quarters ’ ) , adolescents dream of marriage and careers , and people experiencing pressures of midlife may look forward to retirement and grandparenthood . |
| 11 | Some employees may look forward to the opportunity of experiencing life in a foreign country ; others may be keen on the compensation package — the lure of tax-free earnings in some countries is strong . |
| 12 | Though it may look easy there is a right way to walk , to sit , to turn , to remove a coat . ’ |
| 13 | Another disadvantage of this type of competition is that it may look just a little too difficult and thus put off some of the would-be entrants . |
| 14 | What puzzles a philosopher and taxes his mind to distraction may look completely irrelevant or quite obvious to a businessman . |
| 15 | The door illustrated here may look pretty ordinary at first glance . |
| 16 | YOUR bedroom may look pretty safe . |
| 17 | KIT CATCH : These two Arsenal shirts may look pretty similar — but fans will insist on having the new one ( right ) |
| 18 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 19 | While it may look slightly imposing , in reality the R450 is as easy to use as any tuner you 've ever tried . |
| 20 | On his fifth visit to Darlington and 29th constituency since the campaign started , he may look slightly grey and older but his charm with the ladies and twinkle in the eye has not dimmed . |
| 21 | Different spellcheckers may look generically similar much as different electronic calculators do , but their performance can vary significantly . |
| 22 | However ‘ competitive ’ the discount houses ' offer to sell bills to the Bank may look superficially , we can be certain the houses will not make offers which are very far from either the price the bank desires or from each other . |
| 23 | For instance , if you choose fairly large material you will be limited in the amount you can use and the resulting picture may look rather dull . |
| 24 | The formal ought may look rather too like an artificial construct brought in to make the theory work and some might well wonder how the special functional legal ought could simultaneously be regarded , as I purport to regard it , as a moral ought . |
| 25 | To the outsider it may look somewhat robotic in its execution ; but each technique that is performed helps to familiarize the students with real conditions under fire . |
| 26 | Questions may look all right on paper simply because we accept a more formal style in writing than we do in speech , but they may sound absolutely frightful when put into speech . |
| 27 | What may look highly redistributive in a ‘ still ’ may be no such thing across a series of time periods . |
| 28 | In descent rock features may look quite different , distances are hard to judge and much of the terrain is hidden from view by intervening convexities . |
| 29 | People need to account for their time for many different reasons and so your final template may look quite different once you have tailored it to your needs . |
| 30 | Anything less than about 600 x 750mm long ( 24 x 30in ) may look too small . |