Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one cat is always given a completely monotonous ( but nutritionally complete ) diet , day in and day out , always the same brand of canned cat food , it may eventually refuse to touch any other , new kind of food , no matter how tasty . |
| 2 | Scudder ( 1964 ) , however , has emphasized the need to apply modern concepts of homology based on experimental studies of development ; such an approach , combined perhaps with the use of genetic markers for homologous segmental regions may eventually help to resolve some of the persistent difficulties in this field ( Sokoloff and Hoy , 1968 ; Fletcher , 1970 ) . |
| 3 | We may eventually need to relate these factors to one another or to other events in a child 's life , such as educational progress , length of stay in care or destination on exit . |
| 4 | ( This type of motion is in the borderland that one may or may not choose to call turbulent , but it shows sufficient of the characteristics of turbulence for the present purpose . ) |
| 5 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |
| 6 | But , erm , you may not , you may not want to do that . |
| 7 | We think it 's a false economy , but we can understand that a seaside hotelier , for example , may not want to train casual , seasonal staff . |
| 8 | Among other quincentenary revelries you may or may not want to get involved in are : jousting at Hever Castle , Tudor music at Kenwood and a pageant at Hedingham Castle . |
| 9 | If I am a chemist already , wanting an overview of another subject , I may not want to read three introductory chapters . |
| 10 | Both may be statements of truth , but they are bad statements because they can make an elderly person feel how unimportant she is in your life , even though you may not mean to convey this . |
| 11 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 12 | And you may not have realized this but these many misunderstandings can be sorted out while you 're still here to agree 'em . |
| 13 | The perspective may not have developed antagonistic elements to the extent to which , at a generalised level , it could have been a genuine challenge to extant political power , but the populism did articulate working-class interests and demands assertively and independently . |
| 14 | Though Dawson may not have masterminded this sophisticated and influential forgery , his complicity in the affair was strongly suspected . |
| 15 | This may or may not have involved departmental heads in planning induction sessions with year or house heads for in-coming pupils . |
| 16 | Some letters , however , suggest that Leapor was rather dilatory , and may not have done much work in the winter . |
| 17 | But he may not have done another thing ; he may just have faded into obscurity if he 'd lived on . ’ |
| 18 | I may not have liked some of the things I saw and heard , but remember I was present from choice . |
| 19 | Treitel ( 8th ed. ) , p. 87 says of Ward v. Byham : ‘ One basis of the decision is that the mother had provided consideration by showing that she had made the child happy , etc. : in this way she can be said to have conferred a factual benefit on the father , even though she may not have suffered any detriment . ’ |
| 20 | Operators may not have to update similar boats to prevent it happening again until 1999 . |
| 21 | Hospitals in the eighteenth century may not have made national mortality worse ( Cherry 1980 ) , but they were too few to improve the national health . |
| 22 | A company doing business overseas may not have made proper allowances for the high cost of inducing people to work overseas . |
| 23 | They may not have become skilled in using aids to vision such as magnifiers or telescopic aids , or the material that they need to read may be finely or densely printed , visually complex , or difficult to decipher . |
| 24 | Ernst & Young stress , as did Price Waterhouse , that ‘ it should be recognised that our review did not constitute an audit and may not have revealed all material facts ’ . |
| 25 | In terms of sheer quantity the material and human help provided by Mussolini and Hitler — aircraft , tanks , armoured vehicles , small arms and ammunition , the 70–80,000 Italian ‘ volunteers ’ and the German Condor Legion with its own 600 aircraft and 200 tanks — may or may not have exceeded Soviet aid to the Republic . |
| 26 | A great deal of growth was , however , in suburbs outside the limits of the city , which , until much later , was the preferred domicile of the affluent , and so the population of the City itself may not have exceeded 50 000 . |
| 27 | ‘ You may or may not have guessed this , Wallace , but I do n't like you . |
| 28 | But as I say the the people who did not five five percent er , therefore , others may not have given more ! |
| 29 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 30 | You may not have met these before and will need help to master them , e.g. |