Example sentences of "that may [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research work also continues on serotonin secretion by the brain and on drugs that may affect that process . |
| 2 | Finally , there are a number of factors leading to an increase in expenditure that may affect local authorities at particular times . |
| 3 | This is important since the brief was always to destroy anything that may leave incriminating evidence . |
| 4 | However , training is the tool that may enable greater awareness of NACAB policies and their relevance ; through training both the long-term aims of the association and the immediate aims of the adviser might be achieved , but conflict arises when there is insufficient time for both . |
| 5 | ( 1991 ) have analysed various industrial policy measures that may achieve these ends , including direct and indirect subsidies to producers as well as standard protectionist measures such as tariffs , quotas , and non-tariff barriers . |
| 6 | Pilots may not fully appreciate the nature of manoeuvre-induced errors ( frequently called instrument lag ) that may effect pressure-dependent flight instruments during manoeuvres which result in a change of angle of attack . |
| 7 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 8 | Strangely , this section does not mention modification of childbearing patterns among the measures that may serve this goal , while expressly stating that : " Sustained reductions in fertility have generally been preceded by reductions in mortality . |
| 9 | Because of the perceived significance of augmentation of basal UOS pressure as a mechanism that may prevent gastro-oesophageal reflux , we performed an analysis of the effects of oesophageal distention and acidification on basal UOS pressure . |
| 10 | the ending may seem quite unconvincing , with the prospect of their marriage , but there are a few clues from Pip 's first meeting with her till then that may suggest some development . |
| 11 | In some species males and females consort socially in long-term relationships that may last many years . |
| 12 | Very recent taxonomic observations , though , have identified a population of pigs in northern Kenya and Somalia that may match this description . |
| 13 | If the immediate international situation is used as an excuse to get us to drop our opposition to the rearmament programme of the Government , the next phase must be that we must desist from any industrial or political action that may disturb national unity in face of fascist aggression . |
| 14 | Secondly , much of the evidence presented in the editorial ( and this letter ) is based on hypotheses derived from models of invasion and metastasis that may bear little relation to the function of metalloproteinases in vivo . |
| 15 | As we approach retirement , we are in an age range that may encompass another kind of loss and sense of loneliness — the death of parents . |
| 16 | In other words , the system of competitive vote bidding acts like a ratchet encouraging ever more government services at the same time as it penalises a government prepared to take " tough " decisions that may hit particular interests in the short run even though these decisions may work to the advantage of all in the longer run . |
| 17 | In one small area in Nigeria , each nest is a cluster of towers and minarets grouped around a central spire that may rise twenty feet high . |
| 18 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
| 19 | This need to deal with a tricky political environment has often led to managerial centralization of decisions that may have political overtones , and a consensual style of leadership based around committee structures ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 20 | Morals from this episode that may have some parallels with the test-tube fusion story of 1989 include the delicate balance between the world of science and the media . |
| 21 | In clinical practice the sufferer is helped to see that there are other choices , other " pictures " that can be put into the mental library of how life is or could be , and that there is no need to attempt to control one 's life by clinging to a fixed perception of reality that may have some validity for the sufferer but little validity for others . |
| 22 | Such a subjective process is controversial by its very nature and becomes more so when changes are introduced each year that may have important consequences for the grants payable to individual local authorities . |
| 23 | Insects also collect nectar as a ‘ liquid reward ’ a category that may include stigmatic secretions ; these may be involved in insect nutrition as well as in pollen-tube germination . |
| 24 | DISEASES AND DEFECTS THAT MAY CAUSE VISUAL DISABILITY IN CHILDREN |
| 25 | Hairdressing salons , dry cleaners , photographic developers and petrol stations are other places of work that may cause ill health Those working in offices may also be suffering from workplace exposure — to photocopier fumes , for example , or to solvents released by erasing liquids ( Tippex etc ) , glue , carbon paper , chipboard and plywood . |
| 26 | It is a decision that may require continual revision . |
| 27 | They may pick up ideas almost at random from skimming journals , ideas that may spark new trains of thought or fruitful new cross-connections . |
| 28 | Even so , there 's a clear split between the planners and the practitioners : the former see the new framework as strengthening existing good professional relationships ; the practitioners , in the health service particularly , fear it as a layer of bureaucracy that may undermine those relationships . |
| 29 | A stratagem that may solve this problem is to give short-acting insulin alone before the evening meal and intermediate-acting insulin at bedtime ( Tattersall & Gale , 1981 ; Francis et al , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |