Example sentences of "they may [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 3 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 4 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 5 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 6 | A number of software vendors such as Bitstream , Adobe and Microsoft themselves can supply extra fonts but they may cost more than the budget user can afford . |
| 7 | In fact , they may enable some people to play who may not otherwise be able to do so . |
| 8 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 9 | It 's got nothing to do with national security ; it 's that they may embarrass some dear old buffer who did a lot of damage . |
| 10 | At first , they may intend this as a joke , sometimes giving a false name . |
| 11 | Unconsciously , they may regard those sort of questions as intrusive or threatening , in that the other person may not say what they wish to hear . |
| 12 | In effect , we will complete each theory by articulating both their criterion of responsibility and their test for the limits of obligations , so that they may face each other as fully prepared contestants for the honour of being liberal theories of contract law . |
| 13 | I i if , if , if they 're erm an intuitive feeling person , then they may think that 's okay . |
| 14 | Right so they may think that , you know , they 're gon na be one of the lucky ones , presumably . |
| 15 | They may think this is high-status play because nobody knows what they 're thinking . |
| 16 | ‘ Though they may cheat each other , it is not so bad as in the city . ’ |
| 17 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 18 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 19 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
| 20 | On other occasions , however , they may reinforce each other . |
| 21 | Even if they are not inhibited from applying for special treatment they may suffer some loss of self-respect in receiving the service free . |
| 22 | This consists of small beads ( a litre has an R.R.P. of £13.95 — 21 and 51 also available ) Which must be washed ( when they may generate some heat ) then placed in one of the last sections of the filter . |
| 23 | Furthermore , they may bear little resemblance to the ideological representations of socialism , strongly marked by teleology , in terms of the end of alienation or the overcoming of antagonistic forms of society . |
| 24 | They may continue this for up to five minutes . |
| 25 | Nothing difficult is attempted — eg only five different atoms are used — but banish any thought of triviality , because with the cubes shown in Fig. 1 we introduce children to five themes that they may study all their lives . |
| 26 | They may hold these views about perception because of views they hold about our nature and the nature of the things we look at . |
| 27 | Working with district health authorities they may offer some new solutions to longstanding problems , give greater priority to local need , and enable the development of services with the capacity to respond to changing needs over time . |
| 28 | However , they may give another business a licence , or franchise , to sell that product or use the name , in return for a percentage of the takings ( a royalty ) . |
| 29 | They may contain any of the basic seed varieties or a combination of all three . |
| 30 | They may create some interesting ideas for soloing but in terms of composition the keyboard still controls everything . |