Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transition from glass to crystals in a basalt may cover a few centimetres , but in andesites and rhyolites it is much broader , and large thicknesses of glass may be present . |
| 2 | As the start of the season is very close I wonder if I may make a few points for other readers to think about ? |
| 3 | ‘ Even so , you may need a few stitches . |
| 4 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I may need a few shots before I find the mark , Khan . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ … the biogeographer may study the same phenomena as the ecologist , but he usually places as much emphasis on the distributional aspects as on the environmental relationships in this study . |
| 7 | Professional installers may use the same materials , or perhaps special machinery to blow a blanket of loose mineral wool or fire-proofed cellulose fibre into the loft . |
| 8 | American English may use the same words as ‘ English ’ English , but with a different meaning . |
| 9 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 10 | Within this text , which ends after Mome Elwis 's speech in reply , a speech that matches that of Dame Sirith when she initially protects herself , the wretched clerk finds that the only answer he gets is a speech that matches his own for its wordiness and clichéd character — a speech in which Mome Elwis well may mouth the same formulae as Dame Sirith in the equivalent situation , as quoted above . |
| 11 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | However , such smokers may incur the same risks and may even increase them , especially if they inhale the pipe or cigar smoke [ 9 ] . |
| 13 | We are concerned that rehabilitation may face the same problems as re-introduction or re-stocking in conservation — difficult , expensive , and the results often uncertain . |
| 14 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |
| 15 | Partial matches with the lexicon may have a few characters from the beginning of a word , together with approximate word shape information ( see also section 6.3 ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , various areas may have no such groups . |
| 17 | Employers may have the same anticipations as workers about the general price level , but they are more directly concerned about the price of the products they are producing and are far better informed about that . |
| 18 | Both your own language and the target language may have the same kinds of systems but within these systems different distinctions are made . |
| 19 | Question analysis and planning may produce a few ideas . |
| 20 | But not all badgers instantly discover a taste for peanuts : it may take a few visits on your behalf before they catch on that these small pellets are good to eat . |
| 21 | For a complicated shape this may take a few minutes but it is much more controlled than some of the automatic methods . |
| 22 | Their flights may take a few hours or many days . |
| 23 | Though osmone may take a few days , if not weeks , to work , and not everyone can detect the smell , its action is gentle but effective , claims Dr Todd . |
| 24 | Large volumes of small files may take a few seconds to be processed by the HC VERIFIER . |
| 25 | It may take a few years yet , and some unlikely cohesion in banks ' own lobbying . |
| 26 | This may take a few iterations to achieve a good balance , but should eventually make the zero crossings correspond to more or less zero field . |
| 27 | If Sotheby 's is lucky , the judgement that Japan is ‘ coming back strong ’ may sell a few paintings . |
| 28 | Politicians may apply the same criteria . |
| 29 | And at the moment no one is prepared to give evidence against the driver of the truck … but police hope an increased reward of forty thousand pounds may change a few minds . |
| 30 | The vagaries of history may lead the same States to favour each policy in turn according to changing circumstances : newly-independent States may resist being held bound by treaties entered into on their behalf , and therefore tend to favour the ‘ clean slate ’ doctrine of succession , although their economic and technical interests may be better served by treaty continuity . |