Example sentences of "[pron] may [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | many white athletes , some of whom may themselves be of exceptional athletic potential , believe blacks to be innately superior as athletes . |
| 2 | The greatly increased life expectancy of both men and women today means that the children of many of them may themselves be entering old age when they , the parents , are really in need of care . |
| 3 | And , nothing may me to buy it now unless it 's recycled . |
| 4 | we get on the train at , most of them get on at Elstree luckily so what we do is we open the doors and they 're always crowding up the bit where the door is and they say excuse me may I get on please ? |
| 5 | Therefore , much as I may myself enjoy theatre-going and much as I may cheer when I see a full theatre , I must contain my own enthusiasm if I am to be a cool observer . |
| 6 | And if I may we 'll set something up for them and we 'll try and get the shirt on the telly and whatever and try and get people to remember . |
| 7 | If I may I 'll call tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | If I may I 'll tackle the second one first , and that is to say the proposed er alteration to the compensation regulations . |
| 9 | Er if I may I 'll speak and then I 'll give you an amendment which I think will be more constructive than the proposed resolution . |
| 10 | Er , sir , er yesterday I received a letter from the Institute of Trading Standards Administration , and if I may I 'll read a paragraph from it . |
| 11 | Nothing in between you do n't have to revise , even if you know next week I may I do n't know , I may ask you to get on with unit seven . |
| 12 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 13 | I may he may I may have died in the end but still , you know he wanted to keep the peace and wanted to be his friend . |
| 14 | All systems are constructed from bought-in components which may themselves be complex enough to warrant a human factors evaluation . |
| 15 | Treatment group was the most important determinant of the outcome measures considered ; these included three ‘ first day ’ measures which may themselves be useful predictors of subsequent outcome — that is , median and minimum arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratios and packed cell volume . |
| 16 | The consequences of such triggering events will usually be mediated by certain ‘ predisposing factors ’ ( for example family circumstances ) , which may themselves have personal or social consequences . |
| 17 | Radiation induces nuclear regulating proteins , these are able to regulate cytokines , which may themselves have secondary effects on eicosanoids . |
| 18 | Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect . |
| 19 | Thus the industrial relations outcomes of external pressures on state enterprises will be filtered through existing industrial relations structures ( which may themselves have been partly determined by the same external pressures ) . |
| 20 | In his travel across the plains , Celati has created a space which may he filled with meanings , but where no single or definitive meaning can be imposed . |
| 21 | Its dental adaptations to hard savannah fruits and seeds probably preceded the development of bipedalism , which may itself have been originally connected with foraging , reaching upward to browse on bushes for example . |
| 22 | Absorption or wet scrubbing as it is often called has however the disadvantage of having to dispose of the liquid effluent obtained , which may itself require treatment before disposal , and has led to the comment that we may be merely replacing one effluent problem by another by using this method . |
| 23 | The Lower Permian Sandstone beneath the Magnesian Limestone ( which may itself be a viable reservoir rock ) constitutes a deeper prospect . |
| 24 | It is crucial to note that ‘ wealth begets wealth ’ : that is , productive property provides a return which may itself be reinvested to provide further return . |
| 25 | The submissions may be drawn together but can appear anywhere in the judgment or they may simply also be scattered through the judgment amongst the judicial reasoning , which may itself be discursive . |
| 26 | Downstairs pipework The first piece of pipework will need a tee for the branch pipe to the kitchen tap which may itself need tees for pipes to a garden tap and washing machine . |
| 27 | All too frequently the merger agreement ( which may itself comprise little more than random heads of agreement born of their production by separate teams working on specific issues ) will be relied upon as a sufficient substitute . |
| 28 | Paul , who may himself have been trained as a silver-chaser , was apprenticed in 1784 to William Rock of Westminster , another victualler , becoming free of the Vintners ' Company in 1791 . |
| 29 | The accusation of " Catch 22 " is most commonly made by those who do not accept the disease concept and who may themselves be working professionally in the field of addictive disease , commonly believing in the psycho-social model of the cause of and treatment for addiction . |
| 30 | It does , interestingly , erm , as I think I mentioned earlier , it does associate with other auto-immune diseases and thus one can have somebody with miocenia gravis who may themselves have over active thyroid , which is an auto-immune disease , or may have other members of the family with the same disorder . |