Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apologists wishing to stress the harmony between science and religion may gloss over those facets of Christianity as it was that distinguished it from Christianity as they now wish it to be . |
| 2 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 3 | They may experience rather more difficulty in mounting a similar operation against Kilkenny , though . |
| 4 | If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge . |
| 5 | In some cases , overseas groups have just taken speculative shareholdings in British insurance companies in the hope that their interest may flush out other buyers . |
| 6 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |
| 7 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 8 | Big computers often achieve huge profit levels ; ‘ clones ’ of IBM computers may deliver more computing power for a significantly lower price . |
| 9 | That may explain why procedural provisions regarding the operation of subsection ( 2 ) are not spelled out . |
| 10 | This may explain why two trials by the European Cooperative Crohn 's Disease group , both using a protein hydrolysate diet containing oligopeptides rather than solely free amino acids , have shown that enteral feeding is inferior to drug treatment with corticosteroids and sulphasalazine . |
| 11 | This may explain why low dose chenodeyxholic acid does not prevent gall stone recurrence while the results of this and other studies suggest that low dose ursodeoxycholic acid may do so . |
| 12 | Recent studies have shown that rapid molecular events occur in the spinal cord after noxious peripheral stimulation and may explain why pre-emptive analgesia is often difficult to show . |
| 13 | That it tends to be the lower status , less experienced teachers whose attitudes are most positive and the longest serving , institutionally most powerful teachers who are the most negative may explain why this willingness apparently bears so little fruit . |
| 14 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 15 | Many disabled people , often on income support , may earn relatively low wages , and the consequences of a minimum wage would be a withdrawal of job opportunities which would probably affect them in particular . |
| 16 | In other cases , the Bank of England may influence very short-term rates through its operations in the discount markets . |
| 17 | Block loans through the public library service will have an important part to play , and it will be advantageous to both sides if the teachers have provided a detailed breakdown of likely sub-themes and activities for the library staff to use ( although their own examination of stock may throw up additional possibilities which could be suggested ) . |
| 18 | The analysis stage may throw up numerous conclusions that you feel are fit for managers who await the report . |
| 19 | The danger that , by trying to protect your future career prospects , you may throw away substantial cash sums in terms of severance payments is a real one , as the case of International Computers Ltd v Kennedy ( 1981 ) illustrates . |
| 20 | Frank discussion of the sort suggested above may throw out underlying attitudes that need to be faced and worked at . |
| 21 | If there are statements by the Minister or other promoter of the Bill , these may throw as much light on the ‘ mischief ’ which the Bill seeks to remedy as do the white papers , reports of official committees and Law Commission reports to which the courts already have regard for that purpose . |
| 22 | However , the same symbols may convey quite distinct meanings in different cultural settings . |
| 23 | A law student who is a CAB trainee volunteer may not fear legislative tomes but may want considerably more training to cope with an emotional client and feel the need for deeper counselling skills than basic training allows time for . |
| 24 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 25 | They are found at various points on plants , including fruits as on those of Crescentia spp. and in 15 other genera of Bignoniaceae , and the nectar may make up substantial parts of the ant diet as in the case of the extrafloral nectar of Caularthron bilamellatum ( Orchidaceae ) of Central America , which comprises up to 48% of the associated ants ' diet at some times of the year . |
| 26 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
| 27 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 28 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 29 | Others may make more conventional protests but the pain looks like continuing for some time . |
| 30 | It follows that if adverse competitive feedback from output markets is weak , then cooperative joint ventures which include provisions for joint production and marketing may stimulate more successful innovations than those which are restricted to co-operative R&D alone . |