Example sentences of "may [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may disintegrate on impact or , if it survives that , it may carry on some distance under water . |
| 2 | The nature of the demands which new programmes may make on teachers has already been discussed . |
| 3 | These skills may build on families ' coping capacities and lessen coercion , especially in situations where risks and needs are great . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that most Conservative Members accept that , while some taxes may fall on income and others on spending , there is scope for a modest tax to fall on what we might describe as the amenity of property . |
| 5 | Process charts may concentrate on material , operator actions or the events in the process . |
| 6 | To consider further the general character of these coordinate singularities in regions II and III we may concentrate on region II . |
| 7 | They may concentrate on car phones , or only offer short term rental facilities : British Airways , for example , offers mobile phones for hire and use within airports . |
| 8 | Vision may focus on products , services , markets , or organizations , or even ideals . |
| 9 | Examples may focus on differences in the structure of their language or parental relationships or the lack of parental knowledge of child development . |
| 10 | The core of the vision may focus on product or service , market , process , organization or ideals ; its circumference involves the rhetoric and metaphor of persuasion . |
| 11 | Every party should , so far as practicable , apply for any particular direction he may desire on notice to the district judge and the other parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 – 3 ) . |
| 12 | L3 may survive on pasture from autumn until late spring in sufficient numbers to initiate infection or occasionally to cause disease . |
| 13 | Late snow beds are rare in the hills , though limited areas may survive on screes in north-facing corries which receive no winter sun and relatively little summer sun . |
| 14 | One State may act on behalf of another , either on a one-off basis , or more regularly , as in the arrangement between a protected and protecting State . |
| 15 | Just as a State may act on behalf of another State or other legal entity , so too an organisation might be seen as acting as agent for its member States . |
| 16 | However , an effective competition policy needs power to control mergers because of the serious damage they may inflict on competition . |
| 17 | • Add up your logos As you make your eight moves , you may land on circles containing a best logo . |
| 18 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
| 19 | The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions . |
| 20 | Once there it may appear on editor 's data bank visual display unit as a single-line headline . |
| 21 | The following statements may appear on labels or packages , or in manufacturer 's instructions . |
| 22 | ( Notice that ‘ programs ’ is spelt differently from the ‘ programmes ’ you may watch on TV ) . |
| 23 | They may insist on payment by instalments , possibly spread throughout the whole of your notice period . |
| 24 | The list that follows tells you what proportion of your points you may spend on character models , regiments , war machines and allies . |
| 25 | The list that follows tells you what proportion of your points you may spend on character models , regiments , war machines and allies . |
| 26 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 27 | Such contacts may occur on Work Experience , during Mini-Enterprise , or an industrial visit or within a GCSE project or module . |
| 28 | Elsewhere flocks of 100 to 150 winter regularly near Littlehampton , and flocks of up to 380 , but more usually of 100 to 200 , do so at Rye Harbour ; in both areas rather larger flocks may occur on autumn passage . |
| 29 | Their success or failure in doing so may depend on factors bearing a minimal relationship to class struggle . |
| 30 | Arriving back in Brussels , Mr MacSharry accused his boss Jacques Delors of sabotaging the GATT talks because his hopes of becoming French president may depend on farmers ' votes . |