Example sentences of "one may [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if one may offer alternative solutions for some of the actual tempo relationships Devos establishes , he is surely on safer ground than is William Christie in his more recent recording ( Harmonia Mundi HMC 901298 ) , where not only are there no audible attempts to establish tempo relationships , except where the composer does not call for them ( as we shall see ) , but the tactus lurches from 72 to 85 to 66 and then 96 in the first four tempos employed , and the tempo within sections is seriously disturbed on several occasions by extravagant rallentandos . |
| 2 | Sometimes , as was remarked above , by relying on indirect strategic reasons one may achieve greater conformity with the underlying basic reasons than is possible through a direct attempt to pursue them . |
| 3 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 4 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 5 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 6 | Twain is quoted as recording that ‘ one may ride ten miles , hereabouts , and not see ten human beings ’ and that ‘ the hills are barren … the valleys are unsightly deserts … it is a hopeless , dreary , heartbroken land … |
| 7 | As a supplement , one may use external consultants and part-time experts from the basic organization . |
| 8 | Although conceding , in a footnote , that one may use extrabiblical material to ‘ illuminate scripture ’ , her basic stance is to grant to the text the status of a self-contained entity . |
| 9 | True , one may need some notion of " normal practice " ( in preference perhaps to appropriateness ) even to describe such phenomena , but it would be a mistake to limit pragmatics to the study of that normal practice or appropriateness . |
| 10 | Or ( another possibility ) , one may judge one theme in scripture to be an organizing focus ( first stage ) , and then ( second stage ) bring that criterion to scripture , judging other themes to be of lesser importance or frankly wanting . |
| 11 | At least , one may take this assumption from the terms which the French emissary Paul Mus , after an arduous journey , presented to Ho in May 1947 and which required what amounted to a conditional surrender ; and in any case now that the Communist Party had been ousted from the French government there was no longer the same effective demand in France for a negotiated settlement . |
| 12 | One may employ uncontrolled violence only against wild animals which are totally independent of human society . |
| 13 | Of course one may have bad luck , and a less interesting route may be taken , and I fear that happened to her . |
| 14 | So in war one may see dead bodies all around , smell the cordite and hear the shells , but it just wo n't happen to me . |
| 15 | Where there are labour shortages ( or sudden crises such as wars ) one may find upward substitution — people working above the level they were trained for . |
| 16 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |