Example sentences of "may come [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I may come straight to the point , sir . |
| 2 | Communication to staff may come straight from the top , with the highest levels of management informing all employees of the move or top management may inform senior management who , in turn , hold meetings with supervisors to explain how and why the relocation exercise will take place . |
| 3 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 4 | The Americans may come round to the idea that the termination of the war must be mediated through the UN ; they may even reluctantly come round to the idea that Israel must make a contribution to the peace . |
| 5 | Now assuming he knows what four times two is and assuming he knows what two plus one is and so on , he may come up with the answer ‘ Nine ’ , or he may come up with the answer ‘ Twelve ’ , and they 're both right . |
| 6 | Now assuming he knows what four times two is and assuming he knows what two plus one is and so on , he may come up with the answer ‘ Nine ’ , or he may come up with the answer ‘ Twelve ’ , and they 're both right . |
| 7 | There may be a hiatus in family or property matters or pressures that have been rumbling underground may come forcefully to the surface . |
| 8 | In other words , the differences between the two may come down to the fact that one is a linguist interested in grammar , while the other is a psychologist interested in the functional relations between language and the immediate context . |
| 9 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 10 | You may come there by the alley from the town wall , and leave the church on your right . |
| 11 | Average cost pricing or two-part tariffs may come close to the socially efficient output while allowing the monopolist to survive as a private company . |
| 12 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |