Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [art] same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | American English may use the same words as ‘ English ’ English , but with a different meaning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , such smokers may incur the same risks and may even increase them , especially if they inhale the pipe or cigar smoke [ 9 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both your own language and the target language may have the same kinds of systems but within these systems different distinctions are made . |
| 10 | Politicians may apply the same criteria . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They may play the same dives as those familiar Falconite grunge gluttons , but old lurch-riff formulas are being uprooted in a bid for a stronger individual identity . |
| 13 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |