Example sentences of "that [noun pl] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last few years there have been a number of discoveries suggesting that conodonts may be vertebrates . |
| 2 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 3 | A Midland-based company , British Contact Sports Supplies , is currently trying to make the suit knife- and bullet-proof and , although no one from the Met Police could confirm or deny the rumours , it seems that plans may be afoot for them to adopt the suit in the future |
| 4 | Qaddafi , at only one point , seems to say that states may be legitimate if they coincide with nations : ‘ The nation-state [ al-dawla al-qawmiya ] is the only polity harmonious with natural social structure . ’ |
| 5 | It follows that states may make the exercise of the right of registration subject to particular rules applicable in inter-state relations , such as the provisions of articles 7 , 52 and 221 of the E.E.C . |
| 6 | It makes it clear that solicitors may only breach the duty of confidentiality they owe to clients , whether adult or child , in exceptional circumstances . |
| 7 | Apart from the fact that this ignores the possibility that shareholders may have other objectives in investing ( such as opposing investment in countries practising apartheid , or opposing the manufacture of armaments or cigarettes , etc. ) the profit-maximization norm does not provide a hard guideline as to how directors should exercise their discretion . |
| 8 | As representatives of the ranks of the great unfashionable made their way to their seats weighed down by crates of lager , it was clear , at the band 's first British appearance for seven years , that paunches may come and full heads of hair may go , but times do n't change . |
| 9 | There is a danger that projects may be undertaken not because they are likely to lead to academically interesting results , but simply because they are susceptible to computerisation . |
| 10 | Inerting gases are capable of rapid but limited control of fires in racked storages , to the extend that flames may be subdued but smouldering may still persist . |
| 11 | McDevitt has not been arrested ( as of the beginning of the second week of June ) but his role in a bungled 1980 robbery and his peddling of an art theft inspired screenplay in Hollywood have raised hopes that authorities may finally have cracked the perplexing case . |
| 12 | The fact that objects may become the source of actual struggles over conflicting interests will be discussed in chapter 9 as part of the general problem of ideology . |
| 13 | ALL good news , but I fear that taxes may have to go up next year if the Chancellor misses his projected £244.5bn target on spending . |
| 14 | This means that Greatswords may take a lot of casualties before their turn comes . |
| 15 | This often enables them better to achieve the benefits that rules may bring as explained above , and other benefits besides . |
| 16 | But the Manx courts have now agreed that copies may be made available to defendants in a criminal case to be heard next year against eight people involved in the Savings&Investment collapse . |
| 17 | ( Note that DCs may pass through the same state more than once . |
| 18 | The realities of modern politics are such that roles may not be confined by constitutional definitions of office . |
| 19 | His Albert Angelo ( 1964 ) has holes cut in its pages so that readers may see into the future , while his celebrated novel-in-a-box The Unfortunates ( 1964 ) is made up of loose-leaf sheets , intended , as a note on the box explains , ‘ to be read in random order ’ . |
| 20 | References have been confined to some of the more significant primary sources and to secondary sources that readers may find particularly interesting or readable . |
| 21 | A traveller in 1798 found the latter in Middlesex to be " hard and clean in every sort of weather ; so much so , that gentlemen may ride along them , even directly after rain , and scarcely receive a splash " . |
| 22 | This proposal has been partially absorbed in a different suggestion , that schools may decide for themselves whether or not to dissociate themselves from their Local Authority and become independent , relying on the DES to pay for their pupils by direct grant . |
| 23 | The operation of Market Forces in a time of falling roles , coupled with the possibility of opting-out , and competition from , for example , the City Technology Colleges ( if they finally take off ) means that schools may face hard choices between promoting a philosophy to which they are committed , and pulling in the punters . |
| 24 | Such explanations fail to acknowledge the possibility that schools may a responsible for creating and sustaining disruptiveness . |
| 25 | There 's concern that schools may not realise what help is needed because the children seem to be coping in the classroom . |
| 26 | The range of SDLP first preferences was fairly close , that is , from 6,657 to 9,730 which suggests that steps may have been taken to persuade SDLP voters to spread their first preference votes as nearly equally as possible between the three candidates . |
| 27 | All that glitters may not be gold , but these decorations would add elegance and sparkle to any Christmas tree . |
| 28 | No legal change in priority has been contemplated , so that drivers may continue to assume dominance over foot traffic in housing areas . |
| 29 | Hadley acknowledges there is a possibility that opportunities may arise to represent Japan at international level but stresses that he would not consider selection if it in any way jeopardized his standing with the Canadian Rugby Union . |
| 30 | This is an organization that listeners may not realize , which meets probably a couple of times a term , and which members of the university and people outside community meet , have some supper together , perhaps , and actually hear some talks , either from people inside the university or outside , about topics of current interest . |