Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A kestrel is even smaller than a barn owl — it may only weigh six to seven ounces , and could easily lose a quarter of an ounce overnight in cold weather because of the energy it uses up trying to maintain its body heat . |
| 2 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 3 | A standard paragraph may not always reflect the tone required to deal with a particular enquiry ; it may not be quite appropriate to particular circumstances and it may not feel right to the recipient . |
| 4 | they may not feel open to accepting that person into the family , very aware of having to make a conscious effort to put aside prejudices and stereotypes in order to get to know , like and accept him or her . |
| 5 | The current area may not appear attractive to staff , possibly because of high house prices , and so firms may want to move to help their recruitment or perhaps reduce their staff turnover levels . |
| 6 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 7 | Perhaps Sir Fred Hoyle , as an authority on epidemiology , might be invited to see whether the origin of the epidemic may not lie close to the laboratories of the National Institutes of Health . |
| 8 | Lord Goff stated that where the unconsciousness was temporary , the doctor may not proceed contrary to the stated interests of the patient , provided the patient was rationally capable of forming such a wish . |
| 9 | As the subject has to be studied by all pupils , it tends to become a forum for half-baked discussion of moral or social issues , in order that it may not seem irrelevant to the non-religious , or offensive to the keenly sectarian . |
| 10 | ‘ All of this may not seem important to you , but in history who is to say where understanding of a particular series of events starts ? |
| 11 | Should the requirements change at any time , your TESSA may thereupon become subject to the new requirements . |
| 12 | Miami International Airport and Homestead Air Force base were also hit , the latter may possibly close due to the severity of the damage . |
| 13 | A horse may often indulge in mutual grooming with a companion horse , and he may also do this to a human he likes and trusts . |
| 14 | The authors ' conclusion that no causal relation exists between human insulin and reduced hypoglycaemia awareness may well seem disdainful to some patients — for example , those who refused to participate in the study because of the problems experienced with human insulin . |
| 15 | As a result , the inflamed duodenal mucosa may then become susceptible to acid and this may ultimately lead to ulceration . |
| 16 | A more speculative explanation is that there is a low-density , low-viscosity , subsolidus fluid phase associated with nephelinite magma generation but at greater depth below the melt zone , analogous to that suggested for Hawaii into which , in the absence of phlogopite , K and Pb may preferentially partition relative to U and the light rare earth elements . |
| 17 | Even if labour moves between firms , they carry with them more skill and experience than a new recruit and may therefore expect this to be rewarded . |
| 18 | Thus , on a realist view , there are truths about the past which are distinct from all present evidence and may therefore remain unknown to us . |