Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must draw careful lessons from it — about the necessity for collective action and for creating new institutions in Europe to deal with the new conflicts that may spring up in our continent . |
| 2 | Bone assemblages may build up in such cases because of the favoured use of particular parts of the cave for year after year , and similar large accumulations of bat skeletons may also build up beneath favoured roosting sites in caves or hollow trees . |
| 3 | But the brokers between the private sector and the community , such as BITC , say these sources may dry up in the recession . |
| 4 | If the transition field fluctuates rapidly with a slight preference for the Pacific rim great circle , and there is some evidence from non-transitional fields for this , the sediments may average out in preference for one of the two paths , explaining the extraordinary longitudinal confinement . |
| 5 | More than 2 tonnes of the waste , contaminated with 300 grams of dioxin , that was scraped from the inside of the pot is still being sought by environmentalists who believe that it , too , may land up in the sea . |
| 6 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 7 | Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways . |
| 8 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 9 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
| 10 | and at the same time can I say that you do not equate elitist views and pleasures and pastimes that they may have down in the county somewhere with the kind of deprivation that people face in the inner cities . |
| 11 | Our main concern is with linear polymers and the ordered or semi-ordered structures which they may take up in solution , in the melt or in the solid state . |
| 12 | The colours wo n't be seen again and they may end up in a museum . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ progressive ’ parent who believes in total involvement in shaping the disposition of children may end up in a stifling relationship that offers precious little access to the outside world . |
| 14 | You may end up in the red , but as long as it 's not by too much , you 're less likely to have rows about it . ’ |
| 15 | In contrast , the streetwise dealers require quicker money , and may end up in a bucket shop on the Continent . |
| 16 | Unless some of those cripples get well we may end up in midtable anonymity by May . |
| 17 | Yeah , well like please do take this seriously because it 's , it 's quite important as regards to insurance and having As Vanbrugh proved last weekend , y we can do a good job with your stuff put together , and if like someone got fried , then you may end up in trouble . |
| 18 | To what extent if if you accept the County Council 's proposed housing provision for Selby , and I appreciate that 's hypothetical but I er I think it would help me to get this element isolated from our discussion , otherwise we may go round in ever decreasing circles . |
| 19 | In Birmingham , Stuart Tullah of Collins Son & Harvey , which has a large rental book says : ‘ People faced with taking another 12-month tenancy now are afraid prices may go up in that time . ’ |
| 20 | Australian Greg Norman may go down in the record-books as the unluckiest player in the major championships . |
| 21 | Nowadays the attitude seems totally the opposite ; the modern-day prop appears to say : ‘ I may go down in the scrummage , but I will never go back ’ . |
| 22 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 23 | The fact may stand out in higher relief if the residuals are plotted against the fitted values . |
| 24 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 25 | They may come in in little pieces , but if the pieces can be stuck together the results usually show inside of their first forty-eight hours . |
| 26 | This situation may come about in several ways . |
| 27 | However , it may be that for bipolar disorders there is an inherited deficit , while for milder disorders the deficit may come about in other ways ( Akiskal , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 29 | In short , the value of history as a school subject must be constantly and publicly argued because : ( 1 ) history may lose out in any modification to the National Curriculum ; ( 2 ) in the implementation of the existing national curriculum it may be marginalised in the scramble for resources and timetable space ; ( 3 ) a rigorous projection of the value of the subject is important to the well-being of the school in the face of competition from other schools and possible closure ; ( 4 ) students have a choice at Key Stage 4 and in the sixth form and it is essential for the integrity of the subject that single-subject history should have a good representation at both levels ; ( 5 ) above all history has much to offer to the student of the 1990s . |
| 30 | Manifestations can vary enormously from one individual to another ; a sufferer may — or may not — forget how to wash , dress , eat , go to the lavatory , get up or go to bed ; be disorientated in time and place ( for example , may get up in the middle of the night , or may wander away from home and be unable to find his or her way back ) ; forget the social conventions of politeness , and may therefore become aggressive or rude ( or over-friendly ) ; forget how to communicate , and even his or her own or other people 's identity . |