Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 2 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 3 | But the brokers between the private sector and the community , such as BITC , say these sources may dry up in the recession . |
| 4 | Even so , honest advertisement of strength providing cues that can not be faked may count most in the long run . |
| 5 | Equally , an unwanted or unhappy pregnancy may result unexpectedly in the birth of an instantly beloved child . |
| 6 | Like its counterpart in the handling of speech , this is common , but it may present more in the way of reading problems . |
| 7 | More than 2 tonnes of the waste , contaminated with 300 grams of dioxin , that was scraped from the inside of the pot is still being sought by environmentalists who believe that it , too , may land up in the sea . |
| 8 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 9 | Volunteers are now engaged who may work full-time in the bureau in the hope that the experience , training and discipline will lead to a paid job in the future , either inside or outside the CAB . |
| 10 | Secondly , technical innovation may occur directly in the factory or workshop without any prior research expenditure and possibly as pure serendipity . |
| 11 | Common facets may occur anywhere in the schedule order ; although listed only once , they can be applied anywhere in the citation order as required to qualify appropriate concepts . |
| 12 | It may occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract but is predominantly located in the gastro-oesophageal junction and in the stomach along the lesser curvature . |
| 13 | This may reflect the pathway of assembly of the endonuclease ; the HsdM , S methylase may be assembled in preference to the endonuclease and may function independently in the cytoplasm . |
| 14 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
| 15 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 16 | You may end up in the red , but as long as it 's not by too much , you 're less likely to have rows about it . ’ |
| 17 | Legal systems may vary enormously in the types of civil claim they will entertain and in the conduct of the proceedings by which claims are adjudicated , but all but the most primitive of legal systems will know the idea of giving notice to the other party of the making of a claim or of the initiation of a significant step in the resulting proceedings . |
| 18 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 19 | Nowadays the attitude seems totally the opposite ; the modern-day prop appears to say : ‘ I may go down in the scrummage , but I will never go back ’ . |
| 20 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 21 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |
| 22 | This work may start early in the day as is local practice and can occur at any time of the season . |
| 23 | Then , ‘ There 's been no change , you may inquire again in the evening . ’ |
| 24 | Of course if such an appeal is in effect a way of jettisoning the unexplained clause and opening the door to an explanation in terms of some other theory — say , a theory of relations — then it may turn out in the end to have been a step forward , but no credit can be claimed for the step until a reasonably clear , comprehensive , and persuasive account of the alternative theory has been presented . |
| 25 | There is sufficient evidence to indicate that students may differ markedly in the ways they set about learning . |
| 26 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 27 | The associated dipole changes must be perpendicular to the M-P bonds , but the dipole arrows may lie either in the PMP plane or perpendicular to it ( see Fig. 5.39 ) , and the two sets are not equivalent . |
| 28 | A clue to the violence of the break-up may lie also in the balance of weaponry inside Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | A contestant who wins because his opponent is disqualified may fight again in the competition . |