Example sentences of "may [vb infin] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could wish that to celebrate this moving occasion ( for it is at least a partial farewell ) a master of verbal portraiture were at hand ; though so elusive is personality , so unlike the impression that the same person may make on different observers , we might well have no great faith in the verisimilitude of the sketch , if produced . |
| 2 | Injunctions to love the slugs in your garden may fall on deaf ears . |
| 3 | If you are near the right markets , you may concentrate on horticultural crops for sale , but that is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 4 | Often an introductory section mentions that the teacher may select and may concentrate on certain aspects in preference to others ; sometimes it gives an indication that regional variations in content may be acceptable in certain cases . |
| 5 | However , the Commission may focus on regional markets and even on local markets , where these are the relevant geographical markets . |
| 6 | Dormice , like bats , may rouse on mild days , and their precious stores of fat may be used up too fast ; continuous warm , wet spells will prevent deep , undisturbed torpor . |
| 7 | We realise that names may appear on several sheets if a Student failed a test and resat but the Tutor can easily strike out or blank out information not required by the Board . |
| 8 | It has long been accepted that , even in countries such as these , the field of human rights and the administration of justice are matters in which the government has no right to interfere , and there are even mechanisms where a non-national body may pronounce on national decisions , such as the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg . |
| 9 | Marginality may occur on different levels . |
| 10 | Though competition between individuals or populations , leading to the selection of one and the demise of the other , may well fine-tune the course of evolution , the mass replacement of one dominant life-form by another may depend on environmental factors or chance events that lead to the disappearance of the first before the second can begin to radiate . |
| 11 | The pathogenesis of the calculi found in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis may depend on several factors . |
| 12 | Grigorovich and the others are cashing in on the myth — the blanket subsidies have been slashed , and their jobs may depend on box-office returns . |
| 13 | A lot of lives and trade may depend on these analyses ’ said Worswick ‘ and it is worrying that analyses done in different places can vary ’ . |
| 14 | It will consider the implications that changes in the use of sporting rights may have on other users of land and those wishing to make new demands upon land in the countryside . |
| 15 | A major issue is how to balance the rights and needs of the dementia sufferer with the effect which they may have on other tenants . |
| 16 | Erm , the proposals there do , in fact , exceed the capital spend on new starts , and it will therefore need pruning erm , and the proposals that we suggested earlier was that , subject to any comments members may have on individual schemes that are here , and their views on them , we would propose looking at the programme in detail , and bringing it within the guideline figures that have been set , erm , and doing that with the advice of P A G before it goes on to Policy Panel and , and Policy and Resources Committee . |
| 17 | APACHE II scores on admission to ICUs can not be used for comparison of performances of ICUs as they fail to take into account the influences that management prior to ICU admission , such as stabilisation in an operating theatre or ward , may have on physiological variables . |
| 18 | A successful description of a self-portrait may not be difficult , but an illuminating interpretation may call on many references , especially other artists ' pictures of themselves . |
| 19 | Although the very long-term future plays a part in present thinking ( for example , concern about the burden which present promises of pension levels may impose on future generations of working age ) , it is the shorter-term prospects — from now until the end of the century — which mainly concern policy-makers , the caring professions , informal carers of infirm elderly people , and older people themselves . |
| 20 | In mania — technically referred to , unless extremely severe , as ‘ hypomania ’ — the individual is more than usually active , is distractible and talkative to the point where meaningful conversation is impossible , is expansive and grandiose in attitude with an inflated sense of self-importance , and may embark on reckless activities , such as unrealistic spending , gambling , or sexual indiscretions . |
| 21 | And although some personnel may sit on several committees of the various bodies this is not enough to ensure adequate liaison , because there may be a conflict of loyalties . |
| 22 | Whether this chairman goes along with the president or not may turn on many factors , but bargaining is very likely to play a part . |
| 23 | Similarly , children may seize on different suffixes or constructions as marking a contrast , but not necessarily hit on the conventional contrast used by adult speakers . |