Example sentences of "may [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may laugh at this rvolutionary theory BUT I speak from experience . |
| 2 | Any worker may eat at any of the canteens or special selection dining rooms . |
| 3 | Moreover , different configurations may arise at various times . |
| 4 | Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment . |
| 5 | Kay O'Neill , who lives in the street , said her house was worth much more than one may think at first glance . |
| 6 | Because expression may exist at various levels of abstraction ( for example , in the program 's structure ) the courts have to be able to distinguish between idea and expression . |
| 7 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 8 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 9 | Sceptics may baulk at such an idea , but given the attested presence of such equally implausible-sounding objects as a block of portable eighteenth-century soup ( ex Captain Cook ) , Inuit seal-gut underwear , African cobweb hats and other equally exotic objects , the concept of dressed fleas may seem more acceptable . |
| 10 | Some may baulk at such a suggestion but it is only making explicit what archivists do implicitly . |
| 11 | Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance . |
| 12 | Fewer teachers have difficulties in responding to reminders that children share substantial common ground regardless of whatever special attention they may need at any one time . |
| 13 | ‘ Because some individuals might benefit more than others and the rule for public works is that all must benefit indifferently , or none may benefit at all . |
| 14 | Many parents who have given their children a clear understanding of right and wrong , and those who have laid the foundation of Christian faith , may feel at this stage that their children are rejecting their values once and for all . |
| 15 | The lesions may present at any age and they have always been recorded as solitary , except in one case , and possibly in anothr , in which a second polyp was resected from the site of anastomosis of the previous operation six months before . |
| 16 | She said Copper had a 50:50 chance but that his leg may break at any time , not to mention all the problems that come with keeping a horse standing up and not moving for what could be months rather than weeks . |
| 17 | We can not enjoy a happy life with God unless we are willing to be disciplined — unhappy though that may appear at first . |
| 18 | We have found that these roles are not always as clearly divided as may appear at first sight . |
| 19 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 20 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 21 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 22 | To marketing departments the technological challenge associated with such an approach may appear at first quite daunting . |
| 23 | Such a definition may appear at first sight not to add much to Lord Macnaghten 's . |
| 24 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 25 | Although terms such as lentement and vite are unambiguously indicative of tempo , many other expressions commonly found in French Baroque music which may appear at first sight to have no definite connotations of tempo were commonly understood as tempo indications at the time . |
| 26 | Objects may appear at infrared wavelengths because they are cool , because they are obscured by dust that transmits only longer wavelengths , or because their intrinsic mechanism of radiation cuts off at wavelengths shorter than infrared . |
| 27 | We 've had erm , he may see at some stage , he might just see my son Christopher |
| 28 | Some practices may balk at this degree of rigour , especially given the relative scarcity of trained counsellors . |
| 29 | Management by objectives , says Wrapp , may work at lower levels of the organization where tasks and accountabilities are well defined , but they do n't work at the top . |
| 30 | Or partners may look at each other across the breakfast table once the children have left home and ask themselves what they still have in common . |