Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we accept Peirce 's characterization of science , we must acknowledge a discontinuity between ordinary commonsense procedures of inquiry , which all settle belief in the short run , and the life of science , although , of course , the latter may affect the former . |
| 2 | Culture or social structure may change and child-rearing may remain the same . |
| 3 | They hold that the revelation was given through the cultural medium of one particular time , and that while the message may remain the same ( for example that one should love one 's neighbour ) this may require a different expression in a different age . |
| 4 | The song may remain the same , but the advice has well passed its sell-by date . |
| 5 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 6 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |
| 7 | As long-term bond prices are far more volatile than short-term ones , they may prefer the latter . |
| 8 | The transition from glass to crystals in a basalt may cover a few centimetres , but in andesites and rhyolites it is much broader , and large thicknesses of glass may be present . |
| 9 | Some children will want a cuddle as they will have become very upset ; others may want a little sleep as they will have exhausted themselves . |
| 10 | If you mind that anyway , cos I may have a couple of people er that may want a few of them to , spoken to Dav , David , he 's got one or two as well . |
| 11 | As the start of the season is very close I wonder if I may make a few points for other readers to think about ? |
| 12 | Who may make a few inconvenient sexual overtures on the ritually appropriate nights of the week , and will want his strictly kosher dinner cooked on time . |
| 13 | Wilko may make a few weird decisions but his record speaks for itself . |
| 14 | What I hope — very much hope — is that you , after consideration , may make the same choice . |
| 15 | In certain contexts , the word apple may arouse the same mouth-watering reactions as the sight of the fruit itself . |
| 16 | They may need a little time to think about it , but they 'll try most things once . |
| 17 | To recognize implications you may need a little knowledge of the topic , so familiarize yourself with the information by reading your notes or textbooks . |
| 18 | Once you 've stopped dieting your periods will return , but you may need a little help if you want to have a baby … ‘ |
| 19 | And Dicky can take over as a footman — he may need a few lines changed here and there . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I may need a few shots before I find the mark , Khan . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Even so , you may need a few stitches . |
| 22 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 23 | We may show the same kind of symptom but with different degrees of severity or persistence . |
| 24 | Difference ( 4 ) — the interlinked corpus difference — leads to a problem with the name-space : one author may choose a name for an object , and another author may choose the same name for a completely different type of object . |
| 25 | ( She may feel no such constraint because spending all the grant does not increase taxes in the locality . ) |
| 26 | We may feel the same inside , but alas ! |
| 27 | On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic . |
| 28 | Even a single G protein may regulate more than one effector by virtue of its subunit structure and that more than one G protein , such as G i2 and G i3 , may regulate the same effector ( PLC- β2 ) by releasing common subunits , the βγ dimers . |
| 29 | The same duties on a fishing vessel may present a few more difficulties as their crews do not normally have to cope with customs procedures . |
| 30 | Being married to even a would-be politician involves many sacrifices which may achieve no more than being landed with a morose husband ( or wife ) hanging round the house for the next four or five years . |