Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that alkaloid level fluctuations may affect the feeding patterns of orang-utans through the day . |
| 2 | Again , the behaviour of predators may affect the pollinating activities of animals such as bats , encouraging them to make short visits repeatedly , rather than long ones . |
| 3 | A hospital admission is frequently accompanied by a more in depth assessment , which may explain the better results for the 25 patients in this subcategory . |
| 4 | We believe that methodological limitations of the lactulose hydrogen breath test may explain the present results and account for the reported controversies . |
| 5 | He told the conference pre-natal viral illness may explain the higher rates of schizophrenia , found in city-born people and in Afro-Caribbean immigrants in England . |
| 6 | The adversarial critique may explain the early stages of a government 's record but Rose 's ‘ moving consensus ’ is more relevant to an understanding of the long-term trends . |
| 7 | Our results may explain the puzzling results from at least two previous trials , which failed to find an impact on morbidity even in the presence of a large effect on mortality . |
| 8 | On the demand side , we may treat the two goods as corresponding to investment and consumption goods ( identical in production ) . |
| 9 | Swimming : There 's an enormous ‘ Aquarena ’ in Kitzbuhel itself , or you may prefer the warm waters of the Schwarzsee , which is just over a mile from the centre . |
| 10 | The transition from glass to crystals in a basalt may cover a few centimetres , but in andesites and rhyolites it is much broader , and large thicknesses of glass may be present . |
| 11 | The ‘ slow growth ’ fields include palaeontology , where the doubling rate ( the time taken for the number of papers to double ) is 35 years , whereas rapidly changing research areas such as marine geology and geophysics may double every five years . |
| 12 | As the start of the season is very close I wonder if I may make a few points for other readers to think about ? |
| 13 | Should a Troll elect to vomit it may make no other attacks in hand-to-hand combat that turn . |
| 14 | Current educational programmes aimed at all school children on the risks of drug abuse may fail to emphasise the major risks of alcohol and of some prescribed medicines and they may make the false assumptions that : a. drug addiction is simply a product of repeated use of drugs rather than a specific risk of some particular individuals . |
| 15 | If a claim is not provided by the agreed date , the Prime contractor may notify the Non-academic Parties responsible for that claim that it intends to submit a consolidated claim without including such missing claim and may thereafter proceed with such submission accordingly . |
| 16 | Hence , it is unlikely that all dune forms will ever be reduced to one or two simple categories , although a few simple categories may describe the basic forms . |
| 17 | This group may include the distant ancestors of the sharks , but they must have been somewhat ponderous animals compared with the streamlined hunters of modern seas . |
| 18 | Other organizations with an impact upon policy implementation may include the public organizations . |
| 19 | The counter-examples to the policy ineffectiveness proposition that we have considered in this chapter have led one notable proponent of rational expectations to write ‘ the potential usefulness of activist policy rules in dampening fluctuations … may survive the rational expectations revolution ’ ( McCallum , 1980 , p. 738 ) . |
| 20 | In some cases , a company may need a dozen licences from a dozen universities for any particular genetically-engineered product . |
| 21 | ‘ Even so , you may need a few stitches . |
| 22 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I may need a few shots before I find the mark , Khan . ’ |
| 24 | * Consumers may consider the available alternatives from the vantage point of the usage contexts with which they have experience , or the specific applications they are considering . |
| 25 | A few may flourish the 14 pages of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , 1970 ; seven inches of section 2 specifies a local authority 's obligation to lay on just about everything short of a course in elephant skinning : meals , education , holidays , telephones , and recreation are all there in paragraphs ( a ) to ( h ) . |
| 26 | It is understood the North Down and Ards Unit may introduce the new meals-on-wheels system within the next few months . |
| 27 | The practitioner in psychological medicine may over-emphasize the physiological dimensions of his patient 's illness , or , if psychoanalytically inclined , exaggerate the significance of childhood and prenatal experience . |
| 28 | We may choose a professional sports person as our referent and bemoan the fact that our salaries do not compare despite the fact that we may have as much talent in our chosen fields . |
| 29 | Notwithstanding this , the BBC also hopes that older viewers who have had their powers of endurance tested once too often by The Late Show 's cold-blooded eclecticism , may welcome an audience-friendly arts magazine . |
| 30 | The new powerful groups may perceive the existing arrangements as limiting their abilities to achieve their desired ends , and lead them to demand change . |