Example sentences of "may [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , in contrast to the neo-classical school , Marxists have often emphasized that before any countervailing tendencies set in , the processes of growth in one region and decline elsewhere may for long periods become self-reinforcing . |
| 2 | Thus , even though they may for professional purposes , guarantee their subjects ' anonymity in return for access , they nevertheless stress that behind the ‘ sources in Whitehall ’ or ‘ the people of Hicktown ’ there are indeed real people ; thus establishing both their veracity and their morality . |
| 3 | And then comes the crucial claim : ‘ We are as tree born as men , have as free election , and as tree spirits ; we are compounded of like parts , and may with like liberty make benefit of our creations ’ ( sig . |
| 4 | In other situations a rumour or suspicion may with great care be reported if its existence ( irrespective of its truth ) has some significance , if its victim is allowed to reply and renounce the allegation and if the publisher is scrupulous not to indicate expressly or impliedly that the allegation is true . |
| 5 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 6 | In a referendum held on May 19 throughout Croatia , final results showed that 83.6 per cent of the registered electorate of 3,652,225 went to the polls and 93.2 per cent of these voted in favour of the proposal that Croatia , " as a sovereign and independent country which guarantees cultural autonomy and all civic rights to the Serbs and members of other nationalities in Croatia , may with other republics join a confederation of sovereign states " . |
| 7 | The type of analyses that in one company may be conducted with a view to maintaining strategic control and identifying the early signals of a need to change the product mix may in other companies be conducted largely at the pre-investment stage . |
| 8 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 9 | The whole approach then , though it may in helpful ways mitigate an authoritarian image of the male , does not change our understanding of women . |
| 10 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 11 | But nevertheless , you may have different ways of getting from A to B but those different routes may in actual fact give a different set of benefits or perform different functions or not necessarily meet all the needs as you 're setting out to meet . |
| 12 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 13 | The unrest in Anatolia in the latter half of the sixteenth century may in similar fashion have prompted the elevation of some of the kasabat kadiliks there to mevleviyet status . |
| 14 | may accord recognition to an S.R.O. , and may in appropriate circumstances revoke that recognition . |
| 15 | Such an agreement may in political terms be the only way out of the impasse in which the teachers find themselves . |
| 16 | Secondly , in designs where a 3D effect is required , it may in general be more effective to select the higher-toned timbers for background elements ( eg distant hills ) and keep dark-toned veneers for foreground work . |
| 17 | But then it is a small step to begin thinking of ( 18 ) as very similar to ( 20 ) , and thus Containing demonstrative or indexical elements : ( 20 ) That man ( ( the speaker indicates the man drinking champagne ) ) is Lord Godolphin And so it begins to look as if definite referring expressions may in general be used either in speaker reference or in semantic ( or attributive ) reference , and it is only the context of use that tells us which way to understand them ( Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | I have my doubts about this one but you may in due course get a proposal from him . |
| 19 | Columbia and Venezuela have yet to achieve maturity though they may in due course . |
| 20 | As this excerpt itself implies , the dynamics of competition may in due course bring producer behaviour into line with the wishes of consumers , since there are clear opportunities for profit in being the first to satisfy unmet demand . |
| 21 | In some European countries with a two-party system , in which the parties have traditionally been closely associated with the major classes in capitalist society , changes in the class structure — such as were examined in Chapter 1 — have made possible the emergence or revival of ‘ centre ’ parties , and changes of this kind may in due course have an impact upon the electoral system itself . |
| 22 | Devolution may in due course come to Northern Ireland , but before it arrives do not the Government have it in their power , at a stroke , to restore some degree of democracy to the people of Ulster by establishing a Select Committee ? |
| 23 | If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 . |
| 24 | SFA may in due course also include relevant European institutions ( see page 37 below ) as qualifying intermediaries . |
| 25 | Other restrictions are less justifiable : the routine exclusion of the media from " in chambers " hearings relating to property in divorce cases , to bail applications in Crown Courts , and to applications for injunctions and eviction orders in the Queen 's Bench Division of the High Court are breaches of the " open justice " principle which may in due course be struck down by the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 26 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |
| 27 | Instruments may , however , be executed before 20 August if they are binding and are signed and delivered unconditionally before that date even though the property may in certain circumstances be delivered after that date . |
| 28 | Under the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 , a hotel proprietor may in certain circumstances be liable to make good any loss of or damage to a guest 's property even though it was not due to any fault of the proprietor or staff of the hotel . |
| 29 | Some disturbances , especially the neuroses , may in certain people best be cured through a prolonged psychoanalysis . |
| 30 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |