Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then on 10 April 1544 came Henry 's chilling order to his brother-in-law Edward , earl of Hertford , to put all to fire and sword , burn Edinburgh town , so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it , as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon ( them ) for their falsehood and disloyalty … and as many towns and villages about Edinburgh as ye may conveniently , sack Leith and burn and subvert it and all the rest , putting man , woman and child to fire and sword , without exception where any resistance shall be made against you ; and this done , pass over to the Fifeland and extend like extremities and destructions in all towns and villages whereunto you may reach conveniently , not forgetting among all the rest so to spoil and turn upside down the Cardinal 's town of St Andrews , as the upper stone may be the nether , and not one stick stand by another , sparing no creature alive within the same … |
| 2 | Once it has been killed , the kitten may trigger off a new reaction . |
| 3 | Morgenthau 's Realist theory was , as we have said , based on six principles , outlined in an introductory chapter added only in the second edition of the book ; this fact may explain why the six principles do not deal explicitly with two of the three concepts that are central to the remainder of the book , namely ‘ national interest ’ and the ‘ balance of power ’ . |
| 4 | This concept may explain why the inflammatory changes manifested in the clinical syndrome of ‘ pouchitis ’ are seen almost exclusively in patients who have had colectomy for inflammatory bowel disease rather than familial polyposis . |
| 5 | As will be discussed below , NCp7 shows cooperativity in binding to DNA , which may explain why the shorter fragments competed less efficiently for NCp7 than the longer DNA fragments . |
| 6 | Elements of the abductive sense may be instinctive , and the result of selection , others the product of training : selection may explain both the innate quality space and the flexibility which , we know , make possible the training which explains our current ( reliable ) sense of plausibility ( Quine 1969c ) . |
| 7 | There may exist either a formal , highly structured process of search or a loosely structured ‘ think-tank ’ approach . |
| 8 | Although PAS is a commercial business , Bill and Kath both have a soft spot for museums and collectors alike , and in the past have supplied , at reasonable prices , parts to large museums like the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , and to ‘ one man collections ’ who may want just a small item to complete a cockpit panel etc . |
| 9 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 10 | It is not possible to describe a suitable treatment for every type of window and there is no such thing as a standard window , since two identical windows located in a different position on a wall may need quite a different treatment . |
| 11 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 12 | The fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage . |
| 13 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 14 | We may perceive here the strange workings of the historical process according to Rousseau . |
| 15 | These particles may carry either a positive or a negative electrical charge , or may be electrically neutral ; some have mass or weight , others appear to be weightless . |
| 16 | Then , by way of habit , if you leave the dog alone it will continue barking , and this noise may carry over a considerable distance . |
| 17 | We find it valuable to have a checklist of potential style markers ( even though this list itself is necessarily selective ) so that a reader may carry out a linguistic survey of the text , searching for significant features . |
| 18 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 19 | If there is plenty of food about , she may do so every other day . |
| 20 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 21 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |
| 22 | The Gooser won the Galway Plate last July but is an inconsistent sort , although the big race may bring out the best in him . |
| 23 | A six-month-old Rottweiler dog may appear quite a large dog in size , but mentally he is still very much a baby . |
| 24 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 25 | Pursuant to the Directives ' aim to promote comparability of the accounts of companies of the various member States , companies are required to adopt one of two prescribed formats for the balance sheet and one of four for the profit and loss account but in doing so they may use either the prescribed ‘ historical cost accounting rules ’ or the ‘ alternative accounting rules ’ which pay greater recognition to the impact of inflation by a type of current cost accounting . |
| 26 | Thus , if implemented , notwithstanding the other requirements of SSAP 15 , companies may use either the full provision or partial provision basis in accounting for the deferred tax implications of post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 and UITF 6 . |
| 27 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 28 | People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts . |
| 29 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 30 | Thus , liability may follow where the third party does not know , but ought to know , of the breach . |