Example sentences of "[noun] may [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Material consents relate to those contracts , normally the vendor 's customer contracts , which the purchaser would like to receive formal consent for and if such contracts are not transferred failure to take over such contracts may materially reduce the value of the business acquired . |
| 2 | The apparent persistence of behavioural function after brain damage may equally reflect the insensitivity of our methods of assessing function . |
| 3 | The secretion of lubricating oily substances on the skin may also help the dolphin 's speed through the water . |
| 4 | Similarly , as the gut requires luminal nutritional support to prevent mucosal atrophy and subsequent bacterial translocation the use of parenteral rather than enteral nutrition may also increase the likelihood of infection . |
| 5 | Protectiveness towards the grave may also induce the feeling that it is a place for only you to visit . |
| 6 | Employers may even run the risk of key employees leaving the company . |
| 7 | More covert reasons may also underlie the inability ( or reticence ) of government forest agencies in developing countries to enforce regulations . |
| 8 | Meetings may only exclude the public if exempt information is likely to be considered or if ‘ confidential information ’ would be disclosed . |
| 9 | The bulging of this mass may further reduce the space available for the spinal cord and cause neurological deficits in patients with only a moderate degree of atlantoaxial subluxation . |
| 10 | This increase in TDPI may simply reflect the fact that pensioners start from a very low base . |
| 11 | Such shifts may drastically worsen the profitability of the country suffering reduced competitiveness . |
| 12 | With this level of distortion , it is not possible for a rise in the corporate tax to reduce ( w/r ) , and this illustrates how the existence of market imperfections may significantly affect the incidence of taxation . |
| 13 | The presence of an unenforceable restriction on liability may unrealistically raise the client 's expectations . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the findings suggest that smoking may seriously reduce the chances of pregnancy after IVF- ET . |
| 15 | Sufferers who turn to alcohol or smoking may actually increase the tinnitus as well as causing additional problems . |
| 16 | It makes it clear that solicitors may only breach the duty of confidentiality they owe to clients , whether adult or child , in exceptional circumstances . |
| 17 | In these circumstances those of us who have benefited from the excellence of Somerville and Oxford must surely do what we can to ensure that future generations may also have the opportunity to benefit from the privileged education that we enjoyed . |
| 18 | Evidence of your continuing enthusiasm may possibly tip the balance in your favour if the interviewer is having difficulty coming to a decision out of a large number of applicants . |
| 19 | Moreover , the presence of unco-operative minority shareholders may well affect the price a purchaser is prepared to offer . |
| 20 | The lesser verdict may also assist the judge in sentencing , and help the public to understand the sentence imposed . |
| 21 | The truth may be that her stoical-witty-rueful literary persona may even steer the writer towards the sort of life that ensures her material does n't dry up . |
| 22 | The barbarism of Boipatong may ultimately move the goalposts , and perhaps rightly so , but there can be no doubt that the selectors will welcome back their Pirate King with guilt-free zeal . |
| 23 | 4 Scaffolding The right to erect scaffolding for [ any purpose connected with or related to the Centre or the purpose of repairing or cleaning the Centre ] notwithstanding that such scaffolding may temporarily restrict the access to or use and enjoyment of the Premises This right is included in order to overcome the problem resulting from Owen v Gadd where the Court of Appeal held that the construction of scaffolding poles in front of a shop , where there was no reservation of such a right , infringed the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment . |
| 24 | No other lexicographer may now obtain the text of the entry for update , or change its status , until the borrower has returned the entry , at which point the on- loan flag is reset . |
| 25 | Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades . |
| 26 | In newer areas one would expect main roads to form boundaries , yet residential areas in the past were often arranged around the town centre along major roads , so that in older areas a distributor with shops on either side may even form the centre of a residential district . |
| 27 | Large pores may collect colouring pigment and look darker , while the horny , dry skin on elbows , knees and backs of heels may also grab the colour . |
| 28 | My own attempts in the following paragraphs may well demonstrate the difficulties facing us if we had tried to write a short response to all the great present-day debates in polytechnics and universities about the status of literature . |
| 29 | Hierarchical relationships may also take the form of coordinate relationships , in which case they may be represented by ‘ RT ’ or related term in a similar manner to affinitive relationships below . |
| 30 | The continuing emphasis on family relationships may well affect the way Japan copes with the rapid ageing of the population which faces her over the next three decades . |