Example sentences of "may [verb] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , microtubules may be involved in the internal alignment of platelet organelles before the release reaction and , furthermore , may help govern the degree of response to circulating agonists ( White et al , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | For example it is reported that overstocking in litter-based poultry will result in an overloaded offensive litter ; whilst understocking may also be undesirable , since this may result in a dry and dusty litter which may help disperse the odour over a wide area , unless dust filters are installed . |
| 3 | For instance , if examples in which females play an active role appear as often as those in which the active person is male , this may help counteract the prevailing view in society that mathematics is primarily an activity for males . |
| 4 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 5 | A descriptive expression , it is argued , may help fix the reference of a name via some contingent characteristic of the object in question ( as is the case with " the author of Macbeth " ) , but it can not provide its " definition " . |
| 6 | While it may help protect the existing curriculum against falling rolls it will also reduce the curricular decision-making capacity of the school . |
| 7 | A POST-MORTEM examination may help explain the shooting tragedy that killed the son of late Kung Fu star Bruce Lee on a U.S. movie set which has suffered a spate of accidents . |
| 8 | This ratio was relatively small , only 6,000 to 1 , which may help explain the early success of the environmental movement . ’ |
| 9 | Dudley Baxter 's statistics of income distribution in 1867 may help place the discussion in context . |
| 10 | LEARNING Shakespearian curses may help make the Bard 's work accessible to prisoners , but I doubt we 'll hear much Elizabethan abuse from them . |
| 11 | While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary ! |
| 12 | Although sympathetic to a progressive rights theory , Dignan attempts to avoid this problem by examining in some breadth and detail the validity of the assumptions made by Dworkin concerning modern liberal political systems , and argues that Dworkin 's assumptions may help provide the peace movement with a legal theory . |
| 13 | Keeping quiet about such problems may help maintain the fragile balance holding family relationships together , but can cause long-term problems as children try to relate to the outside world . |
| 14 | Elections may help produce the personnel at the apex of government but they tell us little about likely public policy . |