Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derby start 2-1 down to Cambridge and Villa defend the same score at Wolves , where Taylor may have to trust in another piece of sports sagacity . |
| 2 | Or Andy may er Andy , Andy may be adopted or something like that . |
| 3 | If the exclusion is for a fixed period which would bring the aggregate exclusion in any term to more than five days or would involve the pupil missing a public examination , the governors or LEA may order the reinstatement of the pupil and the head teacher would be bound to comply with the direction . |
| 4 | Or Shakespeare may not be making any such point at all , despite the apparent evidence of 36 and 38 . |
| 5 | It comes at a time of growing fear that Saatchi & Saatchi may become the subject of a takeover bid as a result of recent business problems . |
| 6 | Arsenal take an unbeaten 11-match run to Carrow Road , where Norwich may still be under a cloud after their FA Cup semi-final failure against Sunderland on Sunday . |
| 7 | Since the session normally ends in July , a Bill which is not on its way by May or June may stand little chance of passing into law . |
| 8 | He may have met Burgess at Oxford ; Lord Rivers , who was also a graduate of Magdalen College , and was president of the Odiham Society , may have discussed the society with him ; or Penn may simply have read the society 's advertisement of its intention to send two lads to Alfort for training . |
| 9 | At the end of the day , debates over whether we are taking Ecstasy or Ketamine may prove to be missing the point . |
| 10 | Jones & Smith may be inconsistent with Collins , where the accused could have been held to be a trespasser because he exceeded his permission to enter . |
| 11 | Any one of two or more partners carrying on business in England or Wales may sue and be sued in the name of the firm in which he was a partner when the cause of action arose ( Ord 5 , r 9(1) ) . |
| 12 | The government 's motive in attacking enclosures was not simply disinterested concern for justice for the poor , although Wolsey may have been anxious about their welfare . |
| 13 | Its practical object is to gain access to certain documents disclosed by the Police Complaints Authority ( ‘ P.C.A. ’ ) by order of this court for use in a criminal appeal , so that C.N.L. may use them in the libel action . |
| 14 | The architectural parallels between Canterbury and Chichester suggest that William may have been the master architect at Chichester during the rebuilding of 1187–99 . |
| 15 | Here , with my seal-profile friend Fairfax , in the sight of the Mountain of God , I see that Victoria may have had a point . |
| 16 | However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) . |
| 17 | At least one writer has speculated that Carver may recently have lost a son ( by circular argument , in that selfsame Stirling plague ) , but the truth is we simply do n't know what , if any , personal reference is composed into the music . |
| 18 | The first is hard to explain because , although Kelly may be right in asserting that the clash was one of a kind seen every week , it was still bad enough for his own organisation to have upheld a ban on the man in the dock . |
| 19 | And talking of news , Alice , you might be interested to hear that Madeleine may be getting engaged to an army officer called Lionel Dunbar . |
| 20 | Although Offa may once have aspired to be ‘ king of the English ’ , Cenwulf did not , and it is arguable , for all his control of southern England apart from Wessex , that Mercian power declined in his reign . |
| 21 | There are already several institutions of which we can be proud , and I understand that Cardiff may have a centre for the performing arts in the form of a new opera house . |
| 22 | Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment . |
| 23 | The paper concludes that NCR may yet be a winner from its loss of the Sumitomo Bank account since it can now focus entirely on its Open Systems strategy in Japan . |
| 24 | And it is believed that Hirst may decide to seek advice over his future in the coming week . |
| 25 | The worry is that Improv may cannibalise sales of Lotus 's existing program . |
| 26 | Across the range , it is likely that NCM may cost more on both export and domestic credit insurance , but the quality of cover , particularly in certain key trades , could be the deciding factor whilst Trade Indemnity labour under ‘ aggregation ’ problems . |
| 27 | Clearly Whiteson is suspicious that Duran may not have shed 30lb to get down to the middleweight limit for Leonard by wholly natural methods . |
| 28 | Patrick Barlow paces about his flat , where parchment coloured silk curtains shut out the view of the congregational chapel , waiting in on the chance that Frankie may turn up . |
| 29 | From this evidence , he calculates that Rauschenberg may have produced as many as 300 works of art during this five-year period , of which one-half may have survived . |
| 30 | As you will see I included your name and address so Wyre may reply directly to you . |