Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This interpretation of the doctrine is silent on whether individual political action ( voting in elections etc. ) may rightly aim at the promotion of some conception of the good . |
| 2 | Because games may vary slightly in length you may not start at the exact time given . |
| 3 | A proxy may not vote at the same election for more than two people unless the proxy is a close relative ie husband , wife , parent , grandparent , brother , sister , child or grandchild of the people he or she is voting for . |
| 4 | 160 , and to us in this court , he imagined that the judges must have assumed jurisdiction by virtue of their inherent power to determine who may and who may not plead at the Bar before them . |
| 5 | Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) . |
| 6 | Fat on a diet of ‘ Robocop ’ and ‘ Rambo ’ , Latin Americans may not jump at the chance to see them . |
| 7 | Searching may thus cease at the first level or spread down and out , through the analysis of the primitives or entity geometry , into a fine check of a region of local geometry . |
| 8 | It is difficult to miss the phallic connotations of the weapons the miller seems to make such a show of having about his person : — the diminution in scale to the " " joly poppere " " may already hint at the bawdy belittling the miller is to suffer . |
| 9 | Moreover , parasitoids may also feed at the nectaries and then infect insect larvae by oviposition thereafter and , in Inga , this seems effective in control at altitudes where ants are uncommon . |
| 10 | Where the rule is not completely clear the court may also look at the factual background , including the genesis and objective aim of the " transaction " . |
| 11 | We may even look at a team of , say , eight people to establish a ‘ norm ’ for a company — a bit like having to be five feet eight inches tall to get into the police . ’ |
| 12 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 13 | True it is that in a simple case the investigation of a suspect 's criminality may well terminate at the moment of charging , but often this will not be so . |
| 14 | But at the moment small primary schools may well look at the opting out procedure , and I would have to say to you that in many cases those very small primary schools are receiving , by the wish of the Council , a very substantial subsidy from the Local Education Authority in the manner in which they are funded and |
| 15 | Remember , we are often drawn to the essential oil we may actually need at the time . |