Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it has been killed , the kitten may trigger off a new reaction . |
| 2 | A monarch 's speech at a state opening of parliament , though spoken , is far from the reciprocal end of the scale , but a scribbled memo from one teacher to another , though written , may trigger off a series of replies and counter replies , and is thus highly reciprocal . |
| 3 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 4 | Competitors may throw out a challenge by improving the product and offering a better distribution service , for example . |
| 5 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 6 | For example , a designer may build up a sequence of actions which an operator must follow in order to cause his product to function properly — he has synthesised the task from a knowledge of how the machine or other product was designed to function . |
| 7 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |
| 8 | The Government 's proposition is simple : a person making a claim that may date back a great many years ought to be able to produce some evidence to back it up . |
| 9 | Everything is made to change just in the nick of time , and even the return letter office suspends its laws that Jane Eyre may carry on a tale with effect . |
| 10 | Then , by way of habit , if you leave the dog alone it will continue barking , and this noise may carry over a considerable distance . |
| 11 | We find it valuable to have a checklist of potential style markers ( even though this list itself is necessarily selective ) so that a reader may carry out a linguistic survey of the text , searching for significant features . |
| 12 | A computer salesperson may carry out a survey of customer requirements prior to suggesting an appropriate computer system . |
| 13 | The French police may bring in a suspect for interrogation under the process of garde à vue . |
| 14 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 15 | Furthermore , a two-party system may come to resemble a system with several parties if each of the parties involved is itself a relatively loose assemblage of diverse groups without strict voting discipline , and on the other side , in regimes with several parties , electoral alliances may bring about a situation which is close to a two-party system , as has been the case in France in recent years . |
| 16 | In a mass item , although a high standard is looked for , the large number required may bring about a variation in levels of performance and the contents needs to allow for this ( e.g. working in sections ) . |
| 17 | Olivetti said its use of Alpha would definitely be restricted to the high-end workstation market : it ‘ has other designs ’ when it comes to servers , hinting that it may bring out a product in that area based on the parallel processing technology of Kendall Square Research Corp , the Waltham , Massachusetts-based company in which it has a stake ( see page three ) . |
| 18 | If one were to step backwards onto a hard dog 's foot , the dog may give out a yelp but will return immediately to the handler , who , it is hoped , would bend down and apologize for his action . |
| 19 | For very old people , whose security and confidence in these matters may revolve around a relatively small number of tried and tested commodities and services , their withdrawal may be experienced as particularly threatening . |
| 20 | Fertilisations may occur over a period of a month , but the most recent foetuses have the best chance to develop . |
| 21 | Either House may set up a committee of inquiry into any matter it wishes , as the House of Commons chose to do on the occasion of the Aberfan disaster of 1966 . |
| 22 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 23 | Solicitors may set up a corporate practice to practice solely outside England and Wales provided that ( a ) this is permitted by local law , ( b ) all the directors and shareholders are solicitors , lawyers of another jurisdiction or members of the Bar of England and Wales acting in accordance with the Overseas Practice Rules of the Bar and ( c ) the practice complies with the Overseas Practice Rules ; but such a company could not practice in England and Wales . |
| 24 | This may cut out a certain amount of light , but as there are two windows in one corner , the room has light coming in from two directions and is probably lighter than average anyway . |
| 25 | Following the primary attack , there may be no further episodes , or the disease may recur over a long period , in some cases several years . |
| 26 | Eventually they may take over a small group when the large parent troop undergoes fission as increasing size produces social instability . |
| 27 | When their children go to school , they may take on a morning job in a shop or making school dinners . |
| 28 | The skin may take on a white , waxy appearance with thin slits or ‘ cuts ’ on the surface . |
| 29 | Her personal life ceases to mean a great deal to her ; the main focus of her interests may take on a strong religious flavour . |
| 30 | While a white working-class female psychologist may take on a new professional identity which erases her class background , a black woman psychologist of any class is always distanced from such an identity by her ‘ race , . |