Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 2 | It should be noted that ( a ) where the accused 's behaviour falls within s.2(1) , Ghosh is irrelevant : Wootton , above ; ( b ) that the accused may act dishonestly even though he did something which the civil law allows him to do , such as retain the overpayment of a bet ( Gilks [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 1341 ) ; and ( c ) that as a result of Lawrence v DPP , above , a person may be dishonest despite the fact that the owner has consented to the appropriation . |
| 3 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 4 | Snow may linger as late as mid-July . |
| 5 | Invention , for example , of a completely new recording medium like the compact disc may grow very fast because all of us have become addicted to recorded music . |
| 6 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 7 | The person who creates a crisis in a relationship which is not going well such that the two part company and he or she is able to establish a more suitable and rewarding partnership may do much better than the person who avoids crises and settles for a far from ideal partner . |
| 8 | Do n't get me wrong , I 'm not saying that companies should n't sponsor ballet or opera , but I think they have to not lose sight of sponsorship potential with the disadvantages as well as the anonymous giving branch , because small amounts of money to some organizations may do disproportionately more than the Scottish Opera |
| 9 | Universal and Paramount may do less well than last year . |
| 10 | My neighbour 's utterances may follow more coherently if we construe them thus : |
| 11 | ( This process , incidentally , may begin much earlier than many secondary teachers suppose . |
| 12 | So an organisation may work very well if its people are motivated or skilled but suddenly run into bad trouble if the level of motivation or skill should fall . |
| 13 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 14 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 15 | Particular parts may move more slowly than others . |
| 16 | In fact ‘ alpha ’ teams ( composed of high achievers ) may perform less successfully than those made up according to Belbin 's criteria for effective task achievement . |
| 17 | Those who are thin and lean may fare less well than their plump counterparts at times of shortage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Since these females may breed more effectively when older the system is not necessarily disadvantageous to them ( Elliot 1975 ) . |
| 20 | By encouraging an individual to explore their ideas , correct , redefine and re-explore until a workable solution is arrived at , may take slightly longer than simply being instructed in that certain manner by an appropriate ‘ expert ’ yet the learning experience is infinitely greater and consequently more long lasting . |
| 21 | It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height . |
| 22 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 23 | The eggs of other frogs and toads not adapted to ephemeral pools may take as long as six weeks to hatch . |
| 24 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
| 25 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 26 | Other readers may respond more positively than I do to these over-leisurely presumptions on their interest . |
| 27 | I may go even further than the Long Drive , he 'd said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | No matter how potentially profitable a business is , it may go under simply because it fails to meet its day to day cash commitments . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |