Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] may [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs then had a new point which I may call the waiver argument , the basic principle of which is stated in Wigmore on Evidence , 8th ed. ( 1961 ) , pp. 453–455 , para. 2275 : |
| 2 | For a new SPR which is not being based on an existing SPR , LIFESPAN will provide four fields in which you may make an entry if required , as described below ; it is recommended that they are completed as they provide some useful basic information . |
| 3 | This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking , for which you may face a lifetime ban . |
| 4 | Each help screen has an index from which you may select a topic . |
| 5 | One or two of the items of growth particularly have been er identified as illustrative which may mean that you can choose er almost any amount you like er to be spent on those particular items just identify er a figure which you may consider the starting point . |
| 6 | In the treaty of union , where is the mechanism by which we may change the law ? |
| 7 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 8 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 9 | ‘ The threat ’ has become , in Soviet parlance , ‘ well known ’ , and well stereotyped : on their side , an economy locked into a scale and a tempo of war production which we may lack the will or wherewithal to match ; on our side , a technological edge eroding under pressure of rising capital costs and determined Soviet effort ; and finally , the forfeiture of strategic and nuclear superiorities which historically have served as NATO 's trumps against traditional Soviet strengths . |
| 10 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 11 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 12 | Terry B says it 's great to be back and he 's heard there 's a race for the over fifties which he may have a go at … he 's getting itchy feet and will soon be back riding for trainers … he 's also got his old job back as a steward at Worcester races and his public still love him |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 15 | and erm whatever you may need a stock and that and put sliced potatoes in it and some carrots and then on the top I 've put sliced potatoes and left them on top of the casserole , well later on when I came home I just took the lid off and stuck in the top of the oven instead |
| 16 | Thus he slices through the old argument between ‘ formalism ’ and ‘ realism ’ by inserting what we may call a notion of intervention . |
| 17 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |