Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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31 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
32 | I may go even further than the Long Drive , he 'd said . |
33 | We may go so far as to suggest that each reader has a " stylistic competence " , analogous to and additional to the " linguistic competence " shared ( according to Chomsky ) by all native speakers of a language . |
34 | No matter how potentially profitable a business is , it may go under simply because it fails to meet its day to day cash commitments . ’ |
35 | The council may then recommend one name for approval to a general meeting of the association , or it may put forward more than one name and leave it to the general meeting to decide . |
36 | Head of Department : ‘ This will pose severe problems for some … may put off rather than motivate them … may backfire on us ! ’ ( verified note of meeting ) |
37 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
38 | This remedy may come in later if earache occurs ; enlarged lymph glands ; sensation of pressure at the root of the nose or throbbing and burning ; rattling cough ; thick , yellow , stringy nasal discharge . |
39 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
40 | It is still often known as Norfolk reed ; and in contrast to ordinary straw thatch , which has a lifetime of thirty years at most , a well-laid thatch of Norfolk reed may last as long as eighty years . |
41 | Helpers approaching have sometimes been bitten or attacked wildly in the delirium that follows and which may last as long as twelve tormented hours . |
42 | Autumn movements or arrival may start as early as August , but is most usual in late October ; most autumn passage is observed in November . |
43 | But any time between eleven and fourteen is ‘ normal ’ , although some girls may start as early as nine or ten or as late as fifteen or sixteen . |
44 | Some City economists warned that there was a risk inflation may rise even further because of the impact of higher mortgage rates on wage claims in the forthcoming pay bargaining season . |
45 | All volcanic rocks , whatever their composition , may turn up either as lavas or pyroclastics , but rocks of some compositions are more often found as lavas , while others are more common as pyroclastics . |
46 | Gentlemen may venture as far as the gun room , but the door at the end of the housekeeper 's corridor prevents an encounter with any but upper servants of their own sex . |
47 | Cold-adapted collembola may metabolize slightly faster than temperate species ; in laboratory stocks of C . |
48 | 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 . |