Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 32 | Finance may take on a new urgency . |
| 33 | Chapter 6 formalises a decision-making model in which a household may take up a number of different income opportunities according to its capability and the ‘ entry costs ’ of such opportunities . |
| 34 | A qualified accountant may take up a position as : |
| 35 | Within the next year , a new more powerful launcher may take up a craft that will hover 36000 km above the Equator . |
| 36 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 37 | Even then , if a file is very large , it may spread over a number of disks . |
| 38 | A teacher for example may hold up a prayer mat to signify a " holy " object . |
| 39 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 40 | The captain may put on a very good act , convincing not just himself but even some of the passengers ; though whether their floating world will come through depends not on him but on the mad winds and sullen tides , the icebergs and the sudden crusts of reef . |
| 41 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 42 | The opposition may put down a motion of censure on the Government at any time . |
| 43 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 44 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 45 | I think I may start up a course . |
| 46 | However , burying a pet in your garden may stir up a variety of unexpected emotions shortly afterwards . |
| 47 | ‘ Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ’ said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 48 | Doctors , health visitors , social workers and police — even parents — may sit round a table at a case conference ostensibly discussing a ‘ team decision ’ which is ‘ in the best interests of the child ’ . |
| 49 | In passages which resonate with the spirit of Bagehot , ‘ a man of genius ’ , Dicey argues that the ‘ rule of a party can not be permanently identified with the authority of the nation or with the dictates of patriotism ’ and that ‘ while popular government may be under wise leadership a good machine for simply destroying existing evils , it may turn out a very poor instrument for the construction of new institutions or the realisation of new ideals ’ The limitations in practice of his belief in ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ are finally conceded : |
| 50 | On a larger scale , in very wet ground , lenses of ice several metres thick may accumulate over a number of years , causing hummocky ground ; on thawing they create pits from which originate many tundra ponds . |