Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French national policy of encouraging younger people into farming may slowly lead to changing attitudes as older , more traditional ways fade . |
| 2 | If the unfallen state is being pushed further and further out of sight , it may eventually vanish into unreality . |
| 3 | If au else fails , a sector which is being undermined by imports may successfully apply for exemption from restrictions on the formation of a cartel to enable the decline of the sector to proceed in an orderly manner . |
| 4 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 5 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 6 | Very often the vagina and part of the uterus can be separated into two parts by a fibrous partition and this may only come to light after difficulty when intercourse first takes place , or sometimes at the onset of pregnancy . |
| 7 | This may only cease on withdrawal of the drug . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) On the other hand , if the buyer says nothing about his future intentions this may merely serve to fuel rumours that a full bid is to be expected . |
| 9 | The feeling is , rather , that a certain genetic vulnerability is inherited which may or may not lead to schizophrenia . |
| 10 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 11 | And this , as once again Wollheim argues , though it may not lead to action like that in the representation , acts as a lure to the formation of fresh dispositions to act — of fresh desires . |
| 12 | Cannabis may not lead to crime , but jailing people for drug offences does . |
| 13 | Cannabis may not lead to crime , but jailing people for drug offences does . |
| 14 | For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment . |
| 15 | The problem is that the two may not change in tandem ; the first may need to change rapidly , while the latter change only slowly if at all . |
| 16 | However , even though default may not result in crystallisation the company will be in breach of contract and the chargee will have appropriate contractual remedies . |
| 17 | We may not sleep through winter , but we huddle , and stiffen , and hoard the warmth of fires and hot food , until spring unbunches our shoulder muscles , and thaws our movements into fluency . |
| 18 | It should be noted that an RFL may not go into partnership with a recognised body . |
| 19 | Hospital may not cope with area 's growing population : councillor |
| 20 | General practitioners can determine the pattern of later health care delivery in Alzheimer 's disease and may not refer to specialist outpatient care . |
| 21 | The basic rules are relaxed , although IBCs may not engage in banking , trust , insurance or reinsurance business . |
| 22 | Such articles may not start with art ; as Rudolf Arnheim said about his book , Art and Visual Perception , he applied principles of visual perception to examples taken from the arts . |
| 23 | This may not matter with mortality data , where it seems unlikely that there would be very rapid transformation in the main causes of death . |
| 24 | In this case the judge was not so invited and counsel may not complain of failure to exercise the discretionary power in the proviso because the learned judge was entitled to rest his judgment on the assumption referred to above . |
| 25 | Second or tertiary shoots will grow but the crop will be reduced and the fruit may not ripen in time . |
| 26 | Even though it may not qualify for listing , the building may have interesting features — architectural details , original doors or internal fittings . |
| 27 | For example , part-time workers who earn enough to pay contributions may not qualify for unemployment benefit unless they can produce evidence that they have a ‘ reasonable chance ’ of getting part-time employment in the locality . |
| 28 | This constraint may not apply to fundholding practices where , in addition to the obvious benefits to the patient , real financial incentives exist . |
| 29 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 30 | In the woman sensation is experienced through the clitoris and — although less intensely — in the first inch or so of the vagina ; there is also a ring of nerves around the mouth of the uterus which may or may not come into play . |