Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure of gliadin derived peptides to activate adenylate cyclase in duodenal biopsy homogenates from patients who have been successfully treated may be ascribed to the repair of mucosal damage . |
| 2 | The hyper-bases so developed may only be usable in their home environment whereas a generalized data-base implementation would provide the basis for the use of the same information for many other purposes [ 1 ] . |
| 3 | So Bartle may have been a corn spirit , christianised to become St Bartholomew whose day falls at the right time of year , or even a former village priest as has been suggested . |
| 4 | Even the doctrine that political power is divinely given may not , in the particular circumstances of some cruel tyrant , actually prevent rebellion . |
| 5 | Many students so placed may be offered permanent employment on completion of their courses , subject to the availability of a suitable position at that time . |
| 6 | The quality of the labour market may , therefore , affect economic development and unemployment in contrasting ways : an over-supply of lower-skilled labour will heighten unemployment , while a higher concentration of the more skilled and better educated may well encourage greater employment , even if only marginally . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) In any proceedings to which this section applies the court by which the proceedings were so decided may , subject to subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) below , make an order for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the whole or any part of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings . |
| 8 | So paragraphing may present some bilingual writers working in a second language with greater difficulties than writers whose experience is confined to the language and culture in which they are writing . |
| 9 | The data so produced may be of use to parsing systems , whenever it becomes necessary to know whether a noun must have a certain feature , not merely that it may have it . |
| 10 | To add to the uncertainty , the age at which a person is considered old enough to vote may be different from that at which they are allowed to marry or fight for their country . |
| 11 | The man who constantly criticises may be trying to change you into the person he wants you to be , when he should be loving you for the person you are . |
| 12 | The balance between gaining and losing is by no means even ; many infrequent users of search are seen as prime poaching grounds , whereas companies constantly recruiting may not necessarily be losing people , but experiencing rapid growth . |
| 13 | The quickness with which smut has reappeared has been a sobering experience for many agriculturalists and serves as a warning that problems which have apparently disappeared may still lie just below the surface . |
| 14 | But a candidate not so ear-marked may sink to an F or G anyway when it is found that his language though intelligible is not accurate , or that though he knows some historical terminology he uses it inappropriately . |
| 15 | Evidently , the information so obtained may provide a further constraint of use in semantic analysis . |
| 16 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 17 | The information so obtained may then have to be rearranged to show segment differences , and again this process of interpretation may be subjective or objective , depending on how statistically valid the end product must be ; * by using an analysis of attribute sets . |
| 18 | Those who are not permitted to so continue may be eligible for the award of the Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies . |
| 19 | In other cases , however , the " character " so constructed may be simply " another self " . |
| 20 | Of course , there is some justification for this : competition is intense and the Nigerian public 's purchasing power low , and so returns may be higher from launching a new product in a different market . |
| 21 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |
| 22 | You say , Mr , that the constraints to which I 've already referred may well act as a deterrent er to potential developers ? |
| 23 | Those thus pressured may find themselves becoming interested and committed . |
| 24 | Abuse of possession which the defendant already has may take many forms , such as sale accompanied by delivery of the plaintiff 's goods or their documents of title to another , pawning them , or otherwise disposing of them . |
| 25 | Thus , the problems just considered may soon arise again — namely , how much more care in terms of time , resources , and energy is called for . |
| 26 | The quality of the decisions thus made may be good or bad . |
| 27 | Usually hypotheses seek to refine theory , since the generalizations already made may be relatively low-level , crude ones , and the new hypothesis seeks to produce a more sophisticated statement of relationship . |
| 28 | The force of the argument just presented may not be overwhelming but it is enough to prompt the tentative conclusion that , in addition to the habituation process invoked by exposure to a stimulus , some other process comes into play and is responsible for latent inhibition . |
| 29 | So to get back to what we say er yeah I like to fix a date and if people phone up and say well look I 've I 've got something else or I 've changed my mind I would rather have that than to have lots of paper work on my desk that just says may be or may be not . |
| 30 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |