Example sentences of "may [vb infin] us [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 2 | The opinions of others may direct us how to think and react . |
| 3 | An accidental glimpse in a shop window or mirror may bring us up with a jolt . |
| 4 | I shall approach their work , in short , in the light of the pragmatist belief that a study of the problems they pose and the solutions they offer may provide us not merely with a new perspective on the scope of holistic explanations , but also with the best means , in the end , of assessing their strength . |
| 5 | It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are . |
| 6 | Within the part , a functional analysis may take us further than at higher levels , for smaller units of discourse are more likely to be uni-functional , and transitions from one function to another may correspond to both overtly marked sections of the discourse like section , chapter , and paragraph , and also ( indeed particularly ) to sentences . |
| 7 | " Thank you , Mrs Prynn , you may leave us now . |
| 8 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 9 | As we have seen , for example , the raw fact that an admission to care takes place as a result of a care order made by the court , and thus appears in official statistics as further evidence of compulsion , may tell us little about how this action is experienced either by the child or by his or her family . |
| 10 | Defined in this way , social change may be quantifiable — but as an historical concept it may tell us little about the experiences of ordinary people . |
| 11 | The term ‘ the inner city ’ may tell us much more about the manner in which an agenda of social problems is set by the combined and unequal influences of a variety of interest groups than about the political economy of cities but its very reproduction in a set of discourses about ‘ the urban ’ guarantees it a status of its own . |
| 12 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 13 | Ferdinand would be really nice but £5 mil asking price may put us off especially with |Keegan and Battyburn after him . |
| 14 | John Pilger may point us back to the lessons of Vietnam or even the Falklands , but we also live day-to-day with distorted coverage of Ireland and it does n't seem to bother us too much . |
| 15 | However peculiarly Beethoven 's seemingly contradictory words may strike us now , the tempos are nevertheless his and are , again , anything but slow ! |
| 16 | Alternatively they may close us in on ourselves . |