Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Althusser seems to imply that different histories may range through different modes of production , at other times it appears that they are specific to each , an effect of the overdetermination of the social formation . |
| 2 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 3 | According to Jespersen ( 1933 ) , the imperative is used in requests , which according to circumstances may range from brusque commands to humble entreaties , the tone generally serving as a key to the exact meaning . |
| 4 | These may range from circular huts set in a farmyard , with small closes dating from the Ornamental Horizon of the Middle Bronze Age , through the hill-fort ‘ village ’ of the Iron Age , first-century Roman villa with outbuildings , to much later structures up to , and sometimes including , the twentieth century . |
| 5 | The following diagram illustrates how Sciences may relate to other areas of the catalogue . |
| 6 | Other queries may relate to specific attributes of the spatial entities , or to combinations of these attributes , to the exclusion of any locational property . |
| 7 | Core skills are not intended to be the subject of academic studies , although they may relate to academic subjects such as English , mathematics , computing , science and social studies . |
| 8 | The reactions you may experience to these drinks and chocolate , having cleansed your system of them or more importantly having overcome any addiction you may have had , may include : migraine headache irritability depression anxiety shaky nervous feeling increased passage of urine mental overactivity insomnia weight gain . |
| 9 | Moreover , different configurations may arise at various times . |
| 10 | Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment . |
| 11 | Consent problems may arise with certain kinds of patients . |
| 12 | 2 That this technology may have scale economies which in turn may arise through fixed costs but not sunk costs . |
| 13 | This technique may also provide valuable information on the pathogenesis of cerebral embolism , and our case shows the large number of apparently symptomless emboli that may arise in such patients . |
| 14 | To contribute to the development of richer economic theories that take simultaneous account of a number of issues that may arise in particular contexts . |
| 15 | The default set of reference resolution rules in CLE-1 follows Hobbs ' pattern , but this set can easily be respecified to reflect the ordering argued for below ( or , indeed , to deal with the special circumstances that may arise in particular applications ) . |
| 16 | Talk of the ambiguities which may arise in sexual situations is largely irrelevant in a discussion of the rights and wrongs of Morgan . |
| 17 | Many topics may arise from such conversations , many happy and formative memories can be rekindled . |
| 18 | Complex partial seizures usually arise from the temporal lobe , but up to 30% may arise from other sites , in particular the frontal lobe . |
| 19 | Ambiguity in written English may arise from different words having the same spelling ( homonyms ) or the same word having a number of meanings . |
| 20 | Ministers and perhaps civil servants may think of local authorities as useful agents for carrying out policies decided nationally in government departments and approved by Parliament . |
| 21 | The council may demur for two reasons . |
| 22 | Sometimes , the estate agent 's particulars are not very explicit about what is included and what is not , and in any event , sellers may change their minds , or may throw in certain items such as carpets and curtains in the course of the negotiations to settle a price . |
| 23 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 24 | Ethnicity is not , however , always marked by linguistic distinctiveness , Labov 's work with Italian and Jewish speakers in New York City shows that such distinctiveness may persist for several generations , or conversely may disappear with the first generation of native-born speakers who nevertheless maintain a strong sense of ethnicity ( Labov 1972b : 281 ) . |
| 25 | Although the clinical signs are abating the bronchi are still inflamed and residual lesions such as bronchial and peribronchial fibrosis may persist for several weeks or months . |
| 26 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 27 | As an analogy , one does not consider the notion of fatherhood a vague one , within the semantic domain of family relationships , simply because there is an immense number of types of relationship which may exist between actual fathers and their offspring ; to do so would be a category error . |
| 28 | For many years a companionate relationship may exist between two generations of adults in a family , each leading an independent existence . |
| 29 | Because expression may exist at various levels of abstraction ( for example , in the program 's structure ) the courts have to be able to distinguish between idea and expression . |
| 30 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |