Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] may [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insurers might be similarly tempted to screen out high risks who may file earlier or more frequent claims due to illness or early death . |
| 2 | Agencies can be one-man bands , small outfits , large public companies which may work internationally , or multinational companies . |
| 3 | But in exceptional circumstances it may do so . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal has in such cases refused a jury even though the allegation accuses the plaintiff of committing criminal offences , although where the trial affects national interests or the honour and integrity of national personalities it may decide otherwise . |
| 5 | But there are national interests which may override even City interests , for a time , at any rate . |
| 6 | Here are the key words you may come across and what they mean … |
| 7 | For present purposes we may turn directly to societies in which the most significant relations were already vertically structured . |
| 8 | The body pattern is golden brown and the fish is marked with chocolate coloured spots which may vary considerably between individuals . |
| 9 | Separate male and female trees grow side by side , and the female tree produces enormous double nuts which may weigh as much as eighteen kilogrammes each . |
| 10 | This is particularly so for young gay men who may become sexually active in a community disproportionately affected by HIV . |
| 11 | If medical expenses are being claimed , the estimate should include a provision for these and also any medical fees we may incur e.g. a PMA report or Additional Certificate of Medical Attendant . |
| 12 | Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product . |
| 13 | Although a member state may limit the number of members of an EEIG to twenty , it is envisaged that , in the UK , professional partnerships which may have over twenty members will be treated as a single member . |
| 14 | Some common problems you may come across are listed below : |
| 15 | You could always cheat a little and use skeletonised leaves for a cream colouring , though if you look carefully through your collection of pressed materials you may find quite a few unusual shades . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) The clerk of a licensing board shall not , himself or by his partner or clerk , act as solicitor to , or agent for , any person in any proceedings before that board or in any appellate proceedings which may result therefrom and , if any person contravenes this subsection , he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 17 | There will be other readers who may look wistfully at the attractions of religious faith but are restrained by the folklore and fashions of what they suppose to be a current scientific philosophy . |
| 18 | In any case , the importance of reciprocating has to be set beside other motivations which may underpin neighbourly acts as well as those in various forms of voluntary service . |
| 19 | First , when governments want to make relatively large adjustments in their budgetary positions they may rely more upon changes in taxation than changes in public expenditures . |
| 20 | In other diseases it may vary even more . |
| 21 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |