Example sentences of "may [vb infin] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , for example , no Annie 's Bar where we may gossip with the mighty over a vodka — although we do have access to a well-stocked cafeteria , where the waitresses are uncommonly polite . |
| 2 | It may clash with the international North West ‘ 200 ’ road race . |
| 3 | It may well happen , however , that the users of a hierarchy ( in the case of a lexical hierarchy the speakers of the language ) have positive intuitions concerning which items belong together at a given level ; and these intuitions may conflict with the level assignations according to technical criteria . |
| 4 | The aim is to minimise costs in the very long term but the important question is the extent to which this may conflict with the short-run costs of pursuing diversity . |
| 5 | This may conflict with the chronological age , and the person may switch backwards and forwards from one age to another , so it requires alertness to work out what the person is feeling . |
| 6 | All conditional sentences may begin with the subordinate if clause or start with the main clause : If I have time I shall go . |
| 7 | These orders do not contain a blanket exemption for agreements that come within their terms but provide that in deciding whether or not an agreement is registrable no account shall be taken of any restriction : which limits the extent to which the person accepting the restriction may compete with the acquired enterprise , or may be engaged or interested in , disclose information to , or otherwise assist any business which so competes , provided that the restriction subsists for no longer than the permitted period . |
| 8 | The purchaser may contract with the primary care provider unit instead of primary care teams . |
| 9 | However , for the prisoner , the CAB adviser is often the only non-establishment source of support and contact that he or she may have with the outside world . |
| 10 | It is clear from Hockett 's examples , reproduced here as ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , that this ‘ sentential topic ’ may coincide with the grammatical subject , as in ( 1 ) , but need not , as in ( 2 ) . |
| 11 | At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time . |
| 12 | Alternatively , if the OR feels that the debtor has made a full and honest disclosure and that there are no suspicious circumstances , he may dispense with the public examination . |
| 13 | This finding may be important , since it is known that chemical modification of lysine amino groups of the apoprotein may interfere with the specific LDL receptor binding and hence clearance of LDL ( Gonen et al , 1981 ; Kim & Kurup , 1982 ; Witzum et al , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | As Bosch and Tasmowski & Verluyten have shown , pronouns following such words may agree with the syntactic gender of the noun or with the natural gender of the person referred to . |
| 15 | An unmarried partner may agree with the surviving relatives that provision will be made for him or her from the estate , but this is not always possible . |