Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 Culture or social structure may change and child-rearing may remain the same .
2 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 .
3 The song may remain the same , but the advice has well passed its sell-by date .
4 During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times .
5 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 .
6 What I hope — very much hope — is that you , after consideration , may make the same choice .
7 In certain contexts , the word apple may arouse the same mouth-watering reactions as the sight of the fruit itself .
8 We may show the same kind of symptom but with different degrees of severity or persistence .
9 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 .
10 We may feel the same inside , but alas !
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The exception might be the synthesis of information which may achieve the same aim as analysis .
14 They may repeat the same step but the ports de bras or épaulement may change at each repeat .
15 ‘ … the biogeographer may study the same phenomena as the ecologist , but he usually places as much emphasis on the distributional aspects as on the environmental relationships in this study .
16 At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader .
17 However , someone seeing you may do the same thing using a crude ‘ dead man ’ to hold the fuselage upright .
18 If you react angrily or aggressively , your child may do the same .
19 Clarke ignored his experts advice , so his Canadian opposite number may do the same .
20 In the summer at high water temperature , nitrogen may do the same .
21 Sternlicht and others hope that a new paradigm , now under development will bring object functionality to X. It may do the same for other windowing schemas too .
22 Let us hope that others may do the same .
23 Other societies have adopted , or are adopting , different behaviour and values ; we may do the same .
24 Since perfusion of glutamate into the hippocampus in vivo induces seizures , our results suggest that an increase in endogenous extracellular fluid glutamate may do the same .
25 American English may use the same words as ‘ English ’ English , but with a different meaning .
26 Speakers of Standard English in different parts of the British Isles and elsewhere in the world may use the same grammar and vocabulary , but different pronunciation .
27 Professional installers may use the same materials , or perhaps special machinery to blow a blanket of loose mineral wool or fire-proofed cellulose fibre into the loft .
28 Two dangers with cliches such as ‘ May all their troubles be little ones ’ are that older members of the audience have heard them before and that the previous speaker may use the same joke or saying .
29 In the Arab world this is not so ; the managing director may use the same office as the general clerks , so the salesperson must be careful how he speaks to people !
30 Within this text , which ends after Mome Elwis 's speech in reply , a speech that matches that of Dame Sirith when she initially protects herself , the wretched clerk finds that the only answer he gets is a speech that matches his own for its wordiness and clichéd character — a speech in which Mome Elwis well may mouth the same formulae as Dame Sirith in the equivalent situation , as quoted above .
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