Example sentences of "[pron] may [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Handling and using them may give a sense of the past .
2 I may make a mess of this but that does n't mean I 'm stupid .
3 I may need a bit of help .
4 Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant .
5 If you mind that anyway , cos I may have a couple of people er that may want a few of them to , spoken to Dav , David , he 's got one or two as well .
6 As you may recall , I may have a meeting of the Education Committee of the British Association of Industrial Editors in London on 29th — though these are always subject to last minute change .
7 Well if I may raise a number of issues under that report .
8 Dear Guitarist I am writing this letter in the hope that I may save a lot of Gibson-lovers grief with their pickups .
9 Actual violence may not be involved , all that is necessary is for there either to be a breach of the peace or reasonable grounds for suspicion that someone may commit a breach of the peace .
10 A new pay deal — which may mean a cut of up to £1 1/2 MILLION — could also head off the growing clamour at Westminster for a Commons inquiry into whether the family gives value for money .
11 The media provide , in Blumler 's words , ‘ the informational building blocks to structure views of the world … from which may stem a range of actions ’ .
12 It can be useful to refer to something you all have in common , which may restore a feeling of harmony .
13 I think Stuart is hoping several group members will contribute specific perspectives , each of which may form a chapter of the report , whereas others will contribute through critical assessment of the issues .
14 I think Stuart is hoping several group members will contribute specific perspectives , each of which may form a chapter of the report , whereas others will contribute through an assessment of the issues .
15 No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : .
16 They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable .
17 ( This means that the user sees ‘ primitive ’ spatial operations and not a whole spatial problem which may involve a sequence of primitive operations ) .
18 If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ .
19 The oxygen linkages between the sugar rings remain the vulnerable links in the cellulose molecule which may reach a length of several hundred glucose units .
20 The eruption of highly viscous lava , such as that formed by the degassing of rhyolite or andesite , can create large domes which may reach a height of several hundred metres and a width of several kilometres .
21 One mutant ( H197K ) showed a 5-fold reduction in affinity for substance P but not in the affinities of other neurokinin peptides ( data not shown ) , which may indicate a perturbation of the substance P-receptor interaction as a result of the longer side chain and/or the positive charge of Lys197 .
22 However , strict neurological assessment showed that even in these infants minor neurological impairments were detectable , which may indicate a risk of cognitive deficits later .
23 This is a process which may take a number of reruns to achieve what we would consider to be a satisfactory outcome .
24 Eggs fungusing is a problem which may have a number of causes .
25 For instance , a syntactic edge may span a number of lexical edges , each of which may span a number of phonemic edges , and so on .
26 Alcohol in conjunction with sugar increases the release of insulin , a hormone which may cause a lowering of blood sugar and may lead to obesity .
27 In attempting to meet the needs of individual pupils , it will be necessary to take into account aspects of the training of the child 's visual loss or depreciation of sight which may cause a lack of confidence in moving about .
28 Another factor which may initiate a bout of thrush is mechanical injury .
29 I once chaired at , somebody may remember a sort of constitutional commission as it was grandly called , which we went through all these things with a tooth-comb in order to try to get the composition of the executive committee er , right and appropriate for er , this current time .
30 The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged .
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