Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Museum curators often do not acquire more than one coin of the same type , and may additionally exercise their own judgement about which coins are worth obtaining . |
| 2 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 3 | On the other hand , a Member State may not invoke its own legislation where EEC directives expressly require a Member State to allow the marketing of goods which comply with the provisions of those directives , and more generally national legislation will not be justified if the Community legislation is intended to regulate the matter at issue in a comprehensive manner . |
| 4 | ’ The good news is that he may not do you any positive harm . |
| 5 | The big potential drawback of a personal pension , particularly for an older person , is that it may not offer you such attractive benefits as your present pension arrangements . |
| 6 | And then he would say the Kingdom of of Heaven , you may or may not know what that is depending |
| 7 | In times of crisis and extreme demand it is easy to overlook the willing horses some of whom may not know their own limitations . |
| 8 | Attitude-holders , aware of this changed context , may not wish their former stance to be directed against the new counter-arguments . |
| 9 | It may not catch you many , if any , more rabbits but it looks good . |
| 10 | Welcome back to Central News : One of Europe 's fastest growing towns may soon have its own university . |
| 11 | We may soon see her own range of fashions . |
| 12 | In the example of the paperclip business the purchaser may already have its own metal foundry and surplus premises and will not wish to acquire the long term supply contracts or factory premises . |
| 13 | Once employment has terminated the employee may still damage his former employer 's business by : ( a ) competing with his former employer ; ( b ) canvassing or soliciting his former employer 's business connections ; ( c ) using or disclosing his former employer 's business secrets ; or ( d ) enticing his former colleagues away from his former employer to his new employer or business . |
| 14 | The very rich may still have their own exclusive personal physicians , but how many retain in additions , as he did , a medical student for the specific purpose of administering enemas ? |
| 15 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 16 | Clearly , an object may always signify its own material possibilities and constraints and thereby the more general world of material practices . |
| 17 | District health authorities may also produce their own regular bulletins prior to using the classifieds . |
| 18 | The BBC local radio stations and the independent ions may also have their own newsrooms and broad-their own local news programmes in addition to the national news . |
| 19 | The implicit monarchical themes may also have their own republican counterparts , which could have been made explicit in further contexts . |
| 20 | The body may also use its own lean tissue ( muscle ) as fuel when food intake is very low ( such as when a person is on a crash diet ) or when no food is taken at all . |
| 21 | You may now let it all hang out on the walls of the 303 Gallery from 6 June to 3 July where an open-forum show called ‘ Writing on the Walls ’ invites public participation . |
| 22 | So , to the conclusion that the Pioneers ' attempt to establish Producers ' Co-operation was structurally mishandled , we may now add something more . |
| 23 | Someone may even give you some appreciation back , and say , ‘ Thank you for your appreciation , Linda . ’ |
| 24 | This will not only achieve your regional publicity ; it will help to create goodwill within the trade and may even give you some material for the appropriate trade press . |
| 25 | ‘ I may even give you some more . ’ |
| 26 | A bored or lonely horse may become so neurotic , that it chases itself around in circles , and in extreme cases may even bite its own legs and savage its own sides until they are raw and bleeding . |
| 27 | It is therefore clear that as a result of the statutory machinery an individual can have a substantial measure of control over his own working life compulsorily delegated to an agent , a trade union , which he has not selected and may even have his own contract of service varied without his consent . |
| 28 | The guests may even use their own credit cards as the room key . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the managers , having probably visited several venture capitalists with their business plan at the outset of the buy-out process , may well have their own views about who they want to work with , and will wish to be involved in the syndication process . |
| 30 | for example , a motor/pump system may well have its own controls , there will be standard maintenance procedures and there will be an operation/maintenance manual . |