Example sentences of "and may [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 27-year-old man , already serving a life sentence for one murder , has been charged with another and may hold the secret to other unsolved killings . |
| 2 | Department stores operate personal service , and may offer a variety of other customer services , including credit facilities , delivery services , lifts and/or escalators and restaurants . |
| 3 | Other approaches , such as the use of human minichromosomes and the combination of the best features of the different viral and biochemical approaches , are under study , and may offer the best long term prospects . |
| 4 | We 'll certainly be offering business administration , and may offer the care award , too , in conjunction with the College of Nautical Studies . |
| 5 | A campaign for the effective use of current resources is not at all incompatible with a campaign for additional ones and may enhance the clarity with which the shortfall in support for teachers is expressed . |
| 6 | Though it is often suggested that Metastrongylus may transmit some of the porcine viruses , and may enhance the effect of viruses already present in the lungs , the role of the worm is not conclusively proven . |
| 7 | ( g ) Adjournment The court may adjourn proceedings at any stage and may fix a date , time and place for the resumed hearing or leave this to be determined at a later date . |
| 8 | If they appear to be two-dimensional they suddenly seem less ‘ animal-like ’ and may avoid the unwelcome attentions of a hungry predator . |
| 9 | A visit in small groups to a local shop might well be a worthwhile preliminary to the introduction of a class shop and may affect the use that the children make of it . |
| 10 | For instance , monsoons may disrupt transport and power supplies and may affect the conduct of normal day-to-day business . |
| 11 | This is released by macrophages and neutrophils that infiltrate the colonic mucosa in large numbers during active ulcerative colitis and may affect the function of underlying smooth muscle . |
| 12 | Classification of functional gut disorders is proliferating at present , but there is much overlap of various functional symptom clusters and labelling these does not necessarily prove a common cause and may lend a false validity to the diagnosis . |
| 13 | Satisfactory explanations for these reductions in mortality from circulatory diseases have not yet been arrived at and may reflect a change in the disease , improved medical care or changes in lifestyle habits . |
| 14 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 15 | Articles have fewer than 50 references and may contain a few short subheadings . |
| 16 | These findings suggest that bile salts may play an important part in the control of colonic endocrine function and may explain the increased circulating concentrations of colonic regulatory peptides that are seen in malabsorption states and after small bowel resection in humans . |
| 17 | When cleaved from laminin this protein is powerfully mitogenic and may explain the growth promoting properties that laminin has been shown to have cells expressing EGF receptors . |
| 18 | The market is likely to continue drifting down and may reach a low point on Friday . |
| 19 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 20 | These drugs may aggravate hypoglycaemia ( Newman , 1976 ; Lager et al , 1979 ) , may result in undamped hypertensive surges secondary to hypoglycaemic catecholamine release ( McMurty , 1974 ; Shepherd et al , 1981 ) and may threaten the peripheral circulation by arteriolar constriction ( McSorley & Warren , 1978 ; Vale & Jeffreys , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | Sometimes , when a volcano erupts in the sea , massive carpets of floating pumice accumulate on the sea around it and may drift a long way from it . |
| 22 | The announcement fuelled the West 's already strong apprehensions over North Korea 's nuclear capacity and may leave the isolated state 's near-bankrupt economy open to retaliatory UN sanctions . |
| 23 | They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system . |
| 24 | Next we talked about smoking during pregnancy , which reduces the blood flow to the placenta and may stunt the baby 's growth . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 26 | It would seem however that the costs hit small financial firms far harder than larger ones , and may create a powerful barrier to entry to new firms . |
| 27 | Under section I of the P. & C.E. Act the police can stop and search : ( a ) any person or vehicle ; ( b ) anything which is in or on a vehicle ; for stolen or prohibited articles ; and may detain a person or vehicle in order to conduct such a search . |
| 28 | He missed the squad session and may miss the start of the season as well . |
| 29 | It then runs into problems of political opposition of local people , enforced differentiation between winners and losers in the countryside , and may expose the inadequacies of the agricultural extension staff , agricultural engineers , support staff and the like . |
| 30 | The difficulty for the vendor is that , as a result of the sale , the vendor may be left with no facilities to perform obligations under such contract and may face a claim from the party to that contract for breach . |