Example sentences of "may [vb infin] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , different configurations may arise at various times . |
| 2 | Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment . |
| 3 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 7 | Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance . |
| 8 | Many parents who have given their children a clear understanding of right and wrong , and those who have laid the foundation of Christian faith , may feel at this stage that their children are rejecting their values once and for all . |
| 9 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 10 | She said Copper had a 50:50 chance but that his leg may break at any time , not to mention all the problems that come with keeping a horse standing up and not moving for what could be months rather than weeks . |
| 11 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 12 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 13 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 14 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 15 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 16 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 17 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 18 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 19 | We 've had erm , he may see at some stage , he might just see my son Christopher |
| 20 | Some practices may balk at this degree of rigour , especially given the relative scarcity of trained counsellors . |
| 21 | Management by objectives , says Wrapp , may work at lower levels of the organization where tasks and accountabilities are well defined , but they do n't work at the top . |
| 22 | Or partners may look at each other across the breakfast table once the children have left home and ask themselves what they still have in common . |
| 23 | We may look at this example from another angle . |
| 24 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 25 | Results of a secondary analysis of statistic presented in the WHO collaborative studies ( Omran and Standley , 1976 ; 1981 ) for communities in nine developing countries suggest that the minimum risk of late fetal mortality may occur at higher birth orders in developing than in developed countries ( see Appendix , Table A.11 ) . |
| 26 | Other species may occur at higher levels such as Triglochin maritima , Spergularia media , Plantago maritima and Armeria maritima . |
| 27 | Otherwise there is a danger that dissonance may be out of place , or be excessive for the context , or may occur at unexpected moments in a different harmonic mood . |
| 28 | Change from one state of a system to another may occur at different rates at contrasting levels . |
| 29 | Mental illness , unlike most mental handicap which usually dates from birth or early years , may occur at any stage of life and may be chronic or acute , mild in form or severe . |
| 30 | Acute cocaine overdose may occur at any stage if a package bursts . |