Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar claims may arise out of multilateral treaties , especially those that create regional or other organisations . |
| 2 | If this happens the scab may bounce about with great speed and energy within the turret and may do as much damage as if the shell had actually penetrated . |
| 3 | Do not invest money which you may need back at short notice . |
| 4 | The ends of the chaplets ( metal pins used to hold a clay core in position inside the mould of a hollow statue or vessel during casting ) may show up as small patches of a different alloy on the surface of the finished piece . |
| 5 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 6 | Britain may stock up on strategic metals |
| 7 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 8 | Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways . |
| 9 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 10 | It is inevitable that as continental markets become more streamlined business which is now done in Eurocurrencies in London may move back to national financial markets . |
| 11 | For example , migrating wading birds may stop off at particular estuaries en route from winter feeding grounds to summer breeding grounds ; and we will meet more examples ( eg of fish breeding in mangroves or coral reefs ) in the next chapter . |
| 12 | This will enable us to ascertain whether pointing is an intrinsically social , communicative act or whether it may develop out of other non-social behaviour , such as reading . |
| 13 | And you will , if you do n't end up with a house fire you may end up with nasty burns or even electric shock . |
| 14 | Unless some of those cripples get well we may end up in midtable anonymity by May . |
| 15 | The origins of this failure may go back to early parenthood . |
| 16 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 17 | Successful work using primary evidence may lead on to creative expression , which may come from a synthesis of the information gathered from the documentary evidence . |
| 18 | Complaints may come on from suppressed emotions or vexations . |
| 19 | Complaints may come on from electric changes in the atmosphere . |
| 20 | In completing the ten steps the trainees may come up with different answers from ‘ what happened ’ . |
| 21 | They may come in in little pieces , but if the pieces can be stuck together the results usually show inside of their first forty-eight hours . |
| 22 | However , it may be that for bipolar disorders there is an inherited deficit , while for milder disorders the deficit may come about in other ways ( Akiskal , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | While small influences in the short term may add up to large influences in the longer term we must conclude that , within an election campaign , television could influence but not dictate the public agenda . |
| 24 | His studies of more than 10,000 executives in the past three decades persuade him that , unless our line of work calls fundamentally on our buzzgiving skills , we are unlikely to shine at it — even though we may muddle through on quasi-automatic dexterity alone . |