Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , for instance , mnemonic devices in oral cultures which offer some resistance to this process : ‘ formalised patterns of speech , recital under ritual conditions , the use of drums and other musical instruments , the employment of professional remembrancers — all such factors may shield at least part of the content of memory from the transmuting influence of the immediate pressures of the present ’ ( 1968 , p. 31 ) . |
| 2 | For example , on a gentle 5° slope , the possible speed may range from about 27mph to not being able to move at all . |
| 3 | Recently installed swimming-pool may compensate for sometimes impassable road . |
| 4 | Alternatively the dynamic wealth terms may arise from either the absence of a full interdependent model which would permit disequilibrium in one asset to spill over into other assets or from some otherwise omitted dynamic effects arising from the use of a US wealth measure as a proxy for the true worldwide measure . |
| 5 | In pouring rain , police monitered the movements of vehicles leaving the site , although some travellers said they may stay until tomorrow . |
| 6 | You may think of Simply Red as being more hollow at the centre than wild and crazy guys , but this shows neat exuberance and Hucknall 's increasingly inspired songs . |
| 7 | One may think of similarly structured expressions within one category — differing only in lexical items — as stable sub-assemblies with an independent communicative value of their own . |
| 8 | They vary in their tolerance of adjustment : some are quite flexible and some can be adjusted quite radically and these we may think of as more grammatical . |
| 9 | May hybridise with both Capercaillie and Pheasant ( p. 107 ) . |
| 10 | Bachrach and Baratz argue that pluralists ignore or neglect that ‘ face of power ’ which consists in confining the scope of decision-making to safe issues ; they go on to make the less convincing point that an elite may exist without actually being aware of its own dominance since this may never have been challenged . |
| 11 | R Coronæ , in the bowl , is generally well within binocular range , and can just become visible with the naked eye , but when it drops to minimum it may fall to as low as magnitude 15 . |
| 12 | In short , then , while one is able to adduce specific reasons for the creation of certain of the joint muderris/muftiliks , it is important to recognize that these offices were a not uncommon feature of the Ottoman learned profession in the sixteenth century and that the sheer momentum of established practice may count for as much in assessing the reasons for their creation as what appear to be locally important considerations in each individual case . |
| 13 | South Africa may lag behind just now , says JOHN ROBBIE , but they are notoriously quick learners . |
| 14 | Wood floors of all types need to be laid on a perfectly level floor , so you may need to completely cover it with hardboard , or in more extreme cases , chipboard , before laying the floor . |
| 15 | It will be shown how conclusions based upon the analytical economic framework may need at least some qualification when these other matters are brought into account . |
| 16 | WORKERS at Glasgow 's Leyland-DAF plant may know by tomorrow if their Albion axle-producing factory is to be saved , it was said yesterday . |
| 17 | Not all these symptoms may show at once . |
| 18 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 19 | Hereford and worcester will have to wait for at least five years to see if the local government review will split it back into seperate counties , but Gloucestershire may benefit before then , as avon looks like being abolished in two years time . |
| 20 | You do not indicate the filtration system you use , but the tank may benefit from either an external power filter or a reverse flow undergravel system . |
| 21 | People are avoided if they are likely to be at all stressful ; phone-calls go unreturned ; even social events that would normally be pleasurable and fun may feel like yet more demands on a person 's time . |
| 22 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |
| 23 | Some of the misunderstanding may result from very basic differences in the way doctors and patients think about such elementary things as ’ the body ’ , ‘ blood ’ , ‘ cleanliness ’ and ‘ feeling well ’ . |
| 24 | Another criticism of this strategy is that it may result in widely varying control requirements and pollution control expenditures for competing companies in regions of differing air quality . |
| 25 | Cytochrome P450 metabolism of compounds may result in either activation or detoxification . |
| 26 | Even if the study population is large , however , the additional testing of multiple potential risk factors may result in both type I and type II errors . |
| 27 | Finally , changes of climate may result in yet another type of terrace . |
| 28 | These changes may result in somewhat greater reductions in employee numbers than we had previously envisaged , in addition to any transfer out of teams . |
| 29 | The continuous administration of such compounds at the normally recommended doses to elderly patients , therefore , may result in unnecessarily elevated and potentially harmful plasma levels ’ . |
| 30 | Improved survey design ( such as careful definition of a sexual partner ) may result in more accurate information , but there is ample scope for further research into gender differences in reporting by detailed inquiry into the way people recollect their sexual behaviour . |