Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beecham 's comments are worthy of repetition : ‘ these two Concertos have a refinement and distinction that never fails to fall fragrantly on the ear , and offers to the musical amateur , who may feel at times that the evolution of his art is becoming a little too much for either his understanding or enjoyment , a soothing retreat where he may effectively rally his shattered forces ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 4 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |
| 5 | The way a society faces up to unemployment now may largely determine its social and economic health in the future . |
| 6 | If the study of genetic aspects of colorectal cancer continues at its present pace , molecular biology may soon outgrow its immediate role as a research tool and take its place on the clinical stage . |
| 7 | Brazil may soon end its unique experiment with alcohol-fuelled cars . |
| 8 | Parts of the world now outside the hurricane belt may soon experience their destructive power . |
| 9 | Welcome back to Central News : One of Europe 's fastest growing towns may soon have its own university . |
| 10 | We may soon see her own range of fashions . |
| 11 | On the one hand , an item may be a later insertion , and therefore postdate its apparent context ; on the other , it may be a more or less faithful copy of earlier , perhaps discarded , material , and may thus predate its apparent context . |
| 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 | Though generally appropriated by humanist criticism as a recognizable origin of itself , nosce teipsum may nevertheless have something crucial in common with the formulations of post-structuralism . |
| 14 | Two muscular and sinewy songs which prove that Wilder may just have something special after all . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | An omission which might have and may still cost him serious casualties to personnel north of the Qattara depression . |
| 17 | The boy 's parents may still deny his sexual adulthood , or the girl 's will very probably be just as alarmed . |
| 18 | Of course , much music has been composed using only scale and chord patterns , and if they have rhythmic distinction we may still find them useful . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 21 | This particular example ( C ) may conceivably make it easier for community activists to occupy positions of influence within existing power structures without being accused of ‘ selling out ’ . |
| 22 | It may conceivably help your future career to have a suitably worded reference . |
| 23 | To put the matter simply , it is not clear whether a firm that acts in compliance with the rules of its SRO may nonetheless find itself liable for breach of fiduciary obligation . |
| 24 | You may sincerely believe yourself capable of running a nightclub , and as far as the public relations and administration side goes , that 's probably true . ’ |
| 25 | Clearly , an object may always signify its own material possibilities and constraints and thereby the more general world of material practices . |
| 26 | And they 're so angry they may also drop their current backing of the Charity Shield . |
| 27 | It tends not only to slow the sphere significantly , but it may also affect its intended direction . |
| 28 | Use of a partnership may also make it easier for management to obtain interest relief on their borrowings to invest in the business ( see s362 TA 1988 and Inland Revenue Concession A43 , as compared with ss13A and 360 in connection with a loan to buy an interest in a close company ) . |
| 29 | Searching through a variety of sources will give them a wider perspective on their study area , and may also give them contradictory evidence . |
| 30 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |