Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects the issues identified seem similar to those identified by Brown and Corby in that : the differing perspectives of parents and social workers may go unrecognized ; parents of children may feel pushed aside and disillusioned ; and when parents felt that their problems and wishes were understood they valued this highly . |
| 2 | When peers are becoming absorbed by the new life-style that a baby brings , a couple may feel left behind if they do not embark on this too . |
| 3 | Adults , especially when they become parents , seem to develop an increasing sense of responsibility concerning safety and may become involved politically over issues of personal , local or national safety , for example , safe road crossings outside schools , and local dumping of nuclear waste . |
| 4 | The situation in which a loose ferret may become trapped underground . |
| 5 | We take into ourselves aspects of our parents that we may have denied previously . |
| 6 | Other selective forces may have operated quite recently and left a strong memory or image in the structure of the population 's genetics . |
| 7 | Analysts say IBM may have invested as much as $200m in Supercomputing Systems Ltd Partnership , the venture it formed in April 1988 . |
| 8 | Also , although people may have eaten more visible fat , today , most of us eat enormous amounts of invisible fat in cheese , other dairy products , processed foods , biscuits , cakes , chocolates , pies and pastries . |
| 9 | All we can know is that no matter how much or how little they may have endured physically , the emotional damage is probably still with them . |
| 10 | Before the advent of the Europeans the latter lacked any contact with more ‘ advanced ’ cultures ( except in so far as the influence of the Aztecs and other peoples of Central America may have percolated northward ) , whereas Siberia , as part of the ‘ Old World ’ cultural complex , was subject to many influences ( however remote ) from the great civilizations of Eurasia . |
| 11 | Although the majority of people would not want to revert stuffily to the strict dress code for civil servants of the 1950s , does my right hon. Friend agree that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way ? |
| 12 | There are tantalizing hints in the archaeological record that the Minoans may have written longer , non-bureaucratic texts on parchment . |
| 13 | For something Vicente may have written nearly fifty years ago ? ’ |
| 14 | But if actual proof of unfortunate outcome confirms an underlying fear , which previously they may have repressed well , unconscious panic wins over rational argument . |
| 15 | Absolutely they 're reading it with you so they 're with you so you 're you 're holding their interest even though you 're not actually saying anything , yeah , and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once you 've once you 're written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once I once I put the red lines around the red boxes round there and I gave you the first demonstration of the Aldershot method I stood here okay . |
| 16 | In fact , as the reader may have noticed already , the two terms behave exactly like the classical Saussurean sign discussed in Chapter 2 , defined not by their essence but by their difference . |
| 17 | Now that does n't really work here because we have a policy that we do n't have notices , you may have noticed already , we do n't have notices saying do n't and we do n't object to people sitting on the furniture , handling this and that , doing what they like . |
| 18 | In the two cases of reobstruction , the pattern mimicked the previous stricture , suggesting that the radial force exerted by the mesh on the wall may have led to deeper embedding of the mesh where the stricture was tight or may have provoked more important hyperplasia , or both . |
| 19 | The uprisings in the early part of the century may have served temporarily to postpone formal enserfment , but they were powerless to prevent it . |
| 20 | The sufferer from addictive disease , as his or her world progressively falls apart , may have clung desperately to some very individual interpretations of reality simply in order to survive . |
| 21 | This may be in the course of a meeting on alternative methods of therapy which the practitioner may have attended either out of a vague general interest or out of disenchantment with the results of orthodox treatments . |
| 22 | The film had cost at least $25 million ( and may have soared as high as $33 million if all costs were considered ) which , in 1970 dollars , put it way above the epic category . |
| 23 | It 's such a lovely idea , think of all those people whose battle for life is so depressing , and then just one moment of beauty may come and illuminate the dark corners of their existence , so that they feel they may have lived just for that one thing . |
| 24 | Many of these warrens will be long-term sites where rabbits may have lived almost unmolested through centuries . |
| 25 | Have you ever had a strong feeling that you may have lived before ? |
| 26 | Others may have lived always in obscurity . |
| 27 | In a big case ( perhaps three , four or even five years old ) the rates may have increased very substantially between the issue of the writ and the date of trial ; and that makes an enormous difference to quantum . |
| 28 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 29 | Indeed the endemic disorder of medieval society , which was little different in the late Middle Ages from what it had been earlier , may have caused as much economic disruption in a locality such as the East Anglia of the Pastons . |
| 30 | They add that the impact of the mother 's presence on the marriage may have caused further resentment . |