Example sentences of "may [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one . |
| 2 | They may need a good deal of support because of these conflicts , yet this is rarely available . |
| 3 | For example , a pupil who is mastering literacy and numeracy with few difficulties will spend a considerable amount of time in the ordinary classroom , but another may need a good deal of specialised help and be at a stage of going to only one or two lessons daily in the fully integrated situation . |
| 4 | So be able to produce er a press release of some description , or some information , that is reasonably literate , then , and it 's reasonable pertinent to the area that they 're th associated with , then they may lift a good deal of it , perhaps not all of it , and plop it into the newspaper . |
| 5 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 6 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 7 | Yet the foreign exchange market ( like many other asset markets ) has one feature which may provide a good indicator of what agents ' expectations are . |
| 8 | The latter may provide a good approximation to actual savings behaviour , but in this section we consider for purposes of contrast the rather different approach based on individual life-cycle savings decisions , discussed at some length in Lecture 3 . |
| 9 | A power to nonsuit is peculiar now to the county court and is useful where the plaintiff may have a good case but " his tackle is not in order " . |
| 10 | This is because if there is a person on both wing-tips , neither may have a good grip . |
| 11 | With his own production company , Crucial Films , funded by the Beeb and with ‘ all manner of people dropping off bits of writing ’ , it seems he may have a good chance . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the Iti 's turn to have a go at us tonight , Hitler has said that they may have a good go at us , as a reward for their help to him . ’ |
| 13 | The conclusion on the whole matter seems to be that trustees , albeit only the representatives of ulterior beneficial interests , are assessable generally in respect of the trust income under Rule 1 of the Miscellaneous Rules applicable to Schedule D ; but that — just because they represent those beneficial interests they may have a good answer to a particular assessment , as regards some share or part of the income assessed , on the ground that such share or part arises or accrues beneficially to a cestui que trust in whose hands it is not liable to Income Tax , e.g. a foreigner under Case V , Rules 1 and 3 . |
| 14 | You may have a good deal of ups and downs and hard work ahead of you , but sweating on a ridge is , in my opinion , far preferable to plodding up a hillside or toiling along a zig-zag path to a top . |
| 15 | Bosses may take a good look at your hands during an interview and it 's quite common for men to put well-kept nails high on their list of priorities when it comes to women . |
| 16 | These may serve a good man 's turn , if not to conquer as a soldier yet to suffer as a martyr . ’ |
| 17 | It should provide a measure of structure and sequence in what is learned , though that measure may vary a good deal from subject to subject and even student to student . |
| 18 | Again , the way such headings work out in practice may vary a good deal from course to course . |
| 19 | But in those cases where a person in possession of goods to which he has no title may confer a good title on someone else by selling , pledging , or otherwise disposing of the goods , then , since the true owner is deprived of his title to the goods , such a disposition constitutes conversion whether or not the goods are actually delivered . |
| 20 | Fire extinguishers may seem a good idea , but there are so many types to be used for so many different sorts of fires that I would be nervous of escalating a fire , rather than killing it , by using the wrong type of extinguisher . |
| 21 | Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas . |
| 22 | The extra complexity of the second hypothesis may seem a good reason for preferring the first , but in fact any theory of latent inhibition will need to find some place for the idea that associability can change if it is to accommodate the chief conclusions to emerge from Chapter 3 . |
| 23 | They may well have elderly parents who need to be cared for , whether physically or materially , and they may cause a good deal of pressure . |
| 24 | Everyone experiences disturbing life events from time to time , and although they may cause a good deal of psychological distress , they can not on the whole be considered to have a deleterious effect on health . |