Example sentences of "may [verb] more [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 2 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 3 | My neighbour 's utterances may follow more coherently if we construe them thus : |
| 4 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 5 | Particular parts may move more slowly than others . |
| 6 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 7 | Since these females may breed more effectively when older the system is not necessarily disadvantageous to them ( Elliot 1975 ) . |
| 8 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
| 9 | These three aspects are to some extent interrelated in that , for example , at higher temperatures water quality may deteriorate more rapidly than at low temperatures and under conditions of crowding , the deterioration of water quality will also be accelerated . |