Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that at the GATT negotiations , for example , we may eventually settle for a 30 per cent . |
| 2 | If you hold a full Great Britain licence but are currently disqualified in GB you may only apply for a provisional licence . |
| 3 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 4 | A problem may obviously arise for the builder where the nominated supplier makes deliveries late in the month and the relevant invoices are not available at the date of the valuation . |
| 5 | Returning now to our basic theory , we see that the extension of Freud 's monotraumatic theory of human social evolution to a polytraumatic one allows us to discern in human cultural evolution a pattern which , if it should prove to be real , may perhaps represent for the human sciences something like the revolution introduced into the physical sciences by Copernicus , Kepler and Galileo . |
| 6 | A similar mechanism may perhaps account for the fact that some group-living animals drive sick or injured individuals out of the group . |
| 7 | Of course the possibility remains that the sites HS5A and 5B do fulfill an as yet unclear function and that the other hypersensitive sites still present in this construct may functionally substitute for the deleted sites , reflecting a level of redundancy in the NF-L regulatory sequences . |
| 8 | If a creditor is owed a debt not payable at the date of the bankruptcy order , he may nonetheless prove for the same ( r 6.114 ) but subject to an adjustment of his dividend where payment of dividend is made before the time when the debt would have become payable . |
| 9 | This may partly account for an apparent lack of impetus from the start . |
| 10 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 11 | Unlike the ECSC , the whole concept had been modelled as a body in which Britain might participate : this may partly account for the diluted supranational element . |
| 12 | Incomplete recording may partly account for the low rates of sickness absence among those in the highest grades , but it is unlikely to explain the large differences between other grades . |
| 13 | It is obscured to some extent by the heavily didactic purpose of Masterman Ready and this may partly account for the fact that young readers have always claimed the adult novel , Mr Midshipman Easy , as their own , even though it must always have made considerable demands on their reading skills and their understanding . |
| 14 | Methodological differences may partly account for the discrepancy between these studies . |
| 15 | Subsection ( 1 ) empowers the Bank by notice in writing served on an authorised institution to require them to provide to the Bank such information as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 16 | ‘ The Bank may — ( a ) by notice in writing served on an authorised institution require it to produce , within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice , such document or documents of such description as may be so specified ; ( b ) authorise an officer , servant or agent of the Bank , on producing evidence of his authority , to require any such institution to provide him forthwith with such information , or to produce to him forthwith such documents , as he may specify , being such information or documents as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . |
| 17 | It is common ground that it is a prerequisite of the notice that the documents sought are such as the bank ‘ may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . ’ |
| 18 | The Blues want a partner for new signing Graham Harvey as the season reaches a crucial stage ; they may also move for an cross-channel centre-half as doubts about John McConnell 's fitness persist . |
| 19 | This may also account for the small size of halls at West Stow , the uncompacted sand subsoil being incapable of taking the strain of a large building with earth-fast timbers . |
| 20 | Some of these factors may also account for the lack of academic analysis of the object , compared with the extent of linguistic research . |
| 21 | A similar location appears at Catterick and Great Casterton , and may also account for the courtyard structure parallel to Ermine Street at Water Newton . |
| 22 | The same factor may also account for the variation in amplitudes and frequencies noted by us and by Sunshine . |
| 23 | This factor may also account for the repetitive waves in the transposed colon . |
| 24 | This quantitative difference may also account for the beneficial effects seen after surgical interruption of the left stellate ganglion . |
| 25 | The minister may also call for the retirement of a chief constable . |
| 26 | You may also qualify for a Mobility Allowance to help pay transport costs such as the Road Tax , or other grants such as an interest-free loan towards the purchase of a new car . |
| 27 | Students in this year may also opt for a substantial period on an experimental or computational project within the Meteorology Department . |
| 28 | On divorce a married woman may now apply for a property transfer order , and this can be made even if she has made no direct financial contribution to the purchase or improvement of the matrimonial home . |
| 29 | Anglers and shooters may now wish for a lower profile and conflict with canoeists and ramblers respectively will bring publicity they could do without . |
| 30 | Dashing to and from a busy job , frantically organising family commitments , domestic routines and social life to fit with working lives , we may often crave for the peace and simplicity of a solitary life . |