Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients often feel a responsibility for junior nurses and may resent the intrusion of another person whose presence inhibits their relationship with the learners . |
| 2 | A campaign for the effective use of current resources is not at all incompatible with a campaign for additional ones and may enhance the clarity with which the shortfall in support for teachers is expressed . |
| 3 | For in common with all extensional definitions , it provides no criteria for the inclusion or exclusion of further phenomena that may come to our attention ; at best one can say that what warrants pragmatic treatment for some new topic is simply linguists ' consensus based on intuitive " family resemblance " to more familiar pragmatic topics . |
| 4 | Second , it sets arbitrary amounts on the income needs of people of different ages and may underestimate the needs of children by comparison with adults ( Berthoud 1985 ) . |
| 5 | In detail barrier reefs consist of whole series of individual reefs and may have small islands on them . |
| 6 | The number of players varies ( around 35 at the last count ) , and the strategic implications of such rules as may exist have not been fully worked out . |
| 7 | In no way , however , does this invalidate the need for microscale studies — for instance , while global data sets may indicate the extent of algal blooms and may suggest causes of them , only detailed study of the algae themselves can provide understanding of why the bloom is occurring . |
| 8 | This introduces a new avenue of analysis into Marxist writings ; it opens the possibility of recognising that social and political systems may not operate solely on the basis of objective laws but may have a degree of freedom driven by the individual , group and elite perceptions . |
| 9 | If the preservation of the protein structure in metal-free forms is a preferred feature in biological systems , it imposes constraints on the evolution of these proteins and may explain why evolution seems to have disfavoured highly charged metal clusters and why the more hydrophobic porphyrin systems dominate in higher organisms . |
| 10 | Extending higher court advocacy rights for solicitors , he finds , is likely to widen the choice for the consumers of those services and may lead to efficiency gains in some areas such as those services supplied to the Crown . |
| 11 | Thus , overall level of national development of degree of urbanization may influence the relationship of mother 's residence to levels of health and mortality among infants and children below the age of five years and may account , in part , for some differences in patterns among countries that are noted below . |
| 12 | Ballycastle have their share of experienced campaigners but may find that Cushendall are in no mood to relinquish their county title . |
| 13 | Most are a direct continuation of oesophageal varices and may respond to injection sclerotherapy from reflux of sclerosant below the cardia . |
| 14 | This type of geomorphology , which has subsequently attracted both great support and disenchantment , has been the subject of at least two groups of interpretations and it is perhaps the lack of equal familiarity with the achievements of both groups that may account for the differing viewpoints some of which are listed in Table 4.1 . |
| 15 | It will run initially for three months but may become permanent if it seems to fulfil a need . |
| 16 | It is possible to transfer it from one person to another so that the recipient can exercise such rights against third parties as may arise ( see for example Keene , Re [ 1922 ] 2 Ch 475 ) . |
| 17 | Fibre is the preferred medium for high capacity circuits for many operators and may become the medium of choice for primary transmission circuits , given time . |
| 18 | The following grouping of Stage 2 modules may form a core for vocational programmes and may provide a route to Advanced Further Education and Higher Education : |
| 19 | The following grouping of Stage 2 modules may form a core for vocational programmes and may provide a route to Advanced Further Education and Higher Education : |
| 20 | Adopters , however , do not make this transition to parenthood : they do not know when the child is expected , find it too distressing to attend standard parentcraft classes with pregnant women and may lack basic childcare knowledge . |
| 21 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 22 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 23 | In that case switching away from equity and into debt offers two potential advantages : it tends to concentrate ownership ( both equity and debt ) into fewer hands that may care more about how the firm is run ; and it provides a clear discipline for managers . |
| 24 | During the upright period , contraction amplitude was higher in the proximal than the distal oesophagus , which contrasts with healthy volunteers and may indicate a reduced contractile force of the distal oesophagus and thus impaired acid clearing in patients with reflux oesophagitis . |
| 25 | The likely route of feeder and supply mains ; taking into account ground conditions ; anticipating , searching for and dealing with any problems that may hamper the mainlaying work . |
| 26 | After the intensive twelve months support with the project , girls need somewhere to come with any problems that may occur later . |
| 27 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |
| 28 | In some cases that may involve the abolition of councils . |
| 29 | Tourism is also of particular importance in some regions and may dominate the local economy . |
| 30 | Professionals engaged in pre-school and early childhood education are likely to come from separate traditions and may have different perceptions as well as common goals . |