Example sentences of "may [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may not for instance sue somebody in a court of law . |
| 2 | who should make the announcement — this may involve briefing a team of management who may not to date have been informed of the transaction ; |
| 3 | I wish to show Lord Wyatt that he may not with impunity threaten any partner of ours . |
| 4 | An authoritarian bureaucratic approach may not in fact solve the problem but just add to those that the family already have . |
| 5 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 6 | However , backlight may not in fact be the culprit . |
| 7 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 8 | First , it appears that offenders may not in fact be personally enriched . |
| 9 | Dyed Glassfish have been proven to be susceptible to Lymphocystis and the white marks may not in fact have been white spot . |
| 10 | A problem with this manoeuvre , however , is that certain evidence implicates the right hemisphere in control of simple reaction time ( Benson and Barton , 1970 ; Howes and Boller , 1975 ; Nakamura and Taniguchi , 1977 ) and thus equivalent response times for left and right hemisphere groups may not in fact reflect equivalent damage at the two sides of the brain . |
| 11 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 12 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 13 | Many US commentators believe a final decision may not in fact be made before 1995 . |
| 14 | However , it should be kept in mind that a number of those recorded as having agreed to the proposition in respect of all practices may not in fact have agreed with that proposition at all . |
| 15 | Importantly , the test relates separately to each investment in relation to which the customer is to be treated as an expert , and previous dealings in the investment concerned may not in fact be necessary . |
| 16 | The tenant should also consider deleting reference to the insured risks completely , as the damage or destruction rendering the premises unusable may not in fact stem from an insured risk . |
| 17 | Firstly , who is to say that other subjects — like witchcraft , feminism , radical politics , etc. — may not in time be induced in Section 28 . |
| 18 | Indication of perspective presents another convention in which one thing may not in reality be smaller than another but may be shown as such to indicate that it is further away from the viewer . |
| 19 | A partner may not by guarantee undertake to pay a debt incurred by another person , on behalf of the partnership . |
| 20 | Conversely , indigenous politicians , who do not make explicit reference to the individual actor as having multiple points of view , may nevertheless in practice make considerable use of those multiple points of view that are implicit in the existence of different political factions . |
| 21 | Cross-addiction ensures that the weaker Fellowships receive support from members who have experience of stronger Fellowships but it may nonetheless at times be more helpful for a newcomer to receive slightly less individual identification but gain the experience of a stronger Fellowship . |
| 22 | There must be mechanism for identifying persons in need and for reaching out to those willing to participate ; it may also at times be necessary to reach out to those who do not wish to participate but are at risk of harm to themselves or others . |
| 23 | The Council may also from time to time promulgate Codes of Practice if it is of the opinion that such codes will further the objects of the Council . |
| 24 | To begin with , people who have suffered from schizophrenia are readily identifiable , and it may well at times be possible to make the lives of this high-risk group less eventful . |
| 25 | I see that I ( who had written the statement in favour of the ordination of women to the priesthood which was circulated to all members of the Synod before the vote , l5 a statement to which Leonard may well in part have been responding ) wrote in the margin of my copy of his speech : ‘ Have microscopes . ’ |
| 26 | That the Missionary May Live in Humility and Gentleness . |
| 27 | Beyond this the practical stress of sanctions is seen as unhelpful in the development and maintenance of law , since the person who is threatened is not only psychologically less open to accepting the ethical demands of law but may indeed by virtue of the threat be under a reduced ethical obligation to conform to the sanctioned law . |
| 28 | The alternative is that the dog , like the children , has the capability of becoming aware of the misery of its present existence , although it may never in fact do so . |