Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] may [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Audit regulation , changes to the disciplinary arrangements and the continuing development of accounting and auditing standards may go some way to increasing public confidence in the profession ; and various other proposed regulations and changes to the law , such as preventing directors of public companies from exercising any influence over the appointment and removal of auditors , might have more effect than any of the steps which have been taken so far .
2 Service to shy and withdrawn youngsters may involve the art of leaving them alone , and of having the patience to wait until confidence and trust has been earned .
3 For example a need to be dominant and make decisions may deprive patients of practice which they require in order to deal with , for example , their problem of indecision , common in some mental illnesses .
4 To quite a large extent the interests of parasite genes and host genes may coincide .
5 Pollen and ovule eating may have begun in the Carboniferous , the first ‘ modern ’ group with such mandibles , the Coleoptera , appearing in the Permian , with Diptera and Hymenoptera in the Triassic , and Lepidoptera in the Lower Cretaceous .
6 His good looks and twinkling eyes may have won him female fans , but his 6ft 2½in frame and his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers also firmly marked him out as one of the boys .
7 Chemical giant ICI and Shell UK may seem like unlikely environmental saviours but they 're just two of the many firms pumping thousands into projects like this one .
8 Hence , I give notice of the item for Co-ordinators and hope people may give some preliminary thought about it .
9 We will leave the waves to sing a plaintive closing requiem over the Exhibition that was held , and hope Thurso may enjoy much true prosperity .
10 The cultural variable of costing and benefit management may require careful handling , although experience suggests that approaches to this are usually cyclic .
11 Too fast an approach speed , with very fierce braking to stop and give way may cause a following driver to panic , brake hard and slide into the back of your car .
12 Refiners who have to give priority to products such as petrol and lubricating oils may tend to treat chemicals as a convenient way of dealing with unwanted fractions .
13 Accountants weaned only on traditional accounting and finance texts may tend to see their financial information from a more restricted and mainly internal perspective , leading to the conventional income statements and balance sheets .
14 Fractions and strata are divisions specific to one social class : a difference of interests between manufacturing and finance capital may fragment the bourgeoisie , but have no implications for the internal segmentation of other classes .
15 What functions the AD1 and flanking repeats may have is unknown but it is not unlikely that one or another of these repeats represent functional domains .
16 The person who has just sent me into an inner panic of humiliated pride , anger and singeing hurt may have less responsibility in the matter than I may be inclined to attribute to them .
17 Dated , or even outdated knowledge about children and learning processes may need to be supplemented ; and the teacher 's own untapped resources may be tapped for effective use in promoting the pupil 's progress .
18 ‘ However ingeniously and wisely the civil and industrial controls and rationing schemes may have been devised ’ , wrote Sir Richard Hopkins , Head of the Civil Service and Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1942 to 1945 , ‘ they would not have achieved that full success but for the goodwill with which amid the strain and stress of war they were accepted by industry and by the community as a whole . ’
19 Changes in family structures , the educational system , the nature of employment , and demographic and housing patterns may affect the socialization process .
20 As a result , GPs with funds and negotiating power may get a better deal for their patients than those with no funds .
21 Lakes that owe their volume to a balance between inflowing and outflowing water may change radically between seasons , almost draining in winter when the inflow slows down , and overflowing when summer melt brings in water that can not escape through still-frozen outlets .
22 Anxieties about going home and resuming activities may appear more obvious to the nurse when a patient has had major surgery .
23 ( Note : Totals reported in this and following tables may vary somewhat from those shown in Table 1 .
24 Also , the most impressive output will require colour , 32-bit QuickDraw and a laser printer , while memory and processing speed may place some restrictions on molecular size .
25 In the case of such research , the difficulties of obtaining bibliographic information and arranging access may combine with language problems and the costs of obtaining translations to reduce the use of theses originating outwith the requester 's country .
26 Quite a number of new actors form small fringe groups and work in plays on a profit sharing basis — and work opportunities may grow from such schemes .
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