Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others do not , but you may want to add some staged encounters along the way . |
| 2 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 3 | You may need to do some lateral thinking , as savings can not always be related to the size of the cheques you write out each month . |
| 4 | If he is not used to the concept you may need to do some initial explaining , but , once he understands your expectation , he may turn out far better than he imagined ! |
| 5 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 6 | Staff may have noticed some new faces and new uniforms in the reception areas of Stamford and Rennie Houses . |
| 7 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 8 | We have received no formal approaches of this sort although we believe some organisations may have expressed some informal interest to DTI . |
| 9 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 10 | Check with your language helper next session , for you may have missed some phonetic detail which could be important . |
| 11 | L trials are usually more difficult to organize the teacher may have to plan some considerable way ahead before you can observe lessons where he has used the program several times before . |
| 12 | They included weapons , jewellery , and objects which may have had some symbolic significance , whether religious or royal . |
| 13 | She may have had some outdoor work as well , such as feeding poultry . |
| 14 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |
| 15 | The Woods ' speech also introduced an important new argument which may have had some considerable effect on Irish voters . |
| 16 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 17 | It is also worth checking the text itself as the change of display may have forced some unexpected re-composition . |
| 18 | Mr Hume certainly believes that his strongly pro-European line — ‘ the only union that matters is the European union ’ — may have wooed some liberal Protestant voters . |
| 19 | I remember a , I remember er an A H T came out with some figures five years ago which may have prompted some early retirements then . |
| 20 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 21 | The main problem , however , is a methodological one , for in human development specific events to which one may wish to attribute some formative influence hardly ever occur on their own but are usually embedded in a continuing context , a whole network of associated influences . |