Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] may [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When the smoke really thins out , thin blue smoke , rap on it , give the whole tin a shake and it 'll suddenly burst into thick smoke for a few minutes and it may do that again for a second time .
2 Physical Changes The day after the lesson you may become aware of tensions in some muscles or you may feel an ache where previously you have had no trouble .
3 But w what about er er further increases the there seem to be some suggestions that we may find the three thousand four hundred million going even higher .
4 We are concerned about some issues and we may wish to raise them again later in the Bill 's progress to safeguard the position of all nurses throughout the 1990s .
5 They also do an award-winning Steinlager from New Zealand , a type of lager already available in some off-licences and you may remember the logos from their sponsorship of the last Rugby Union World Cup .
6 They also do an award-winning Steinlager from New Zealand , a type of lager already available in some off-licences and you may remember the logos from their sponsorship of the last Rugby Union World Cup .
7 But in truth the need for this reform is so much greater in such times that it may provide the most appropriate occasion for it ’ ( Keynes , 1940 , p. 32 ) .
8 This last objection can be put in a form applicable to many of the theories discussed in this book : that it may be a mistake to try to define the essential features of literature in absolute and objective terms ; that such definitions as one may devise are likely to be relevant only to certain kinds or certain features of literature , or merely constitute one among a number of possible ways of approaching the subject .
9 There is often no reason to expect such patterns and one may expect that longitudinal correlations will usually give a curve such as A ( Fig. 19.5 ) .
10 Subject to the provisions of Clause 10.1 , it will take such steps as it may consider reasonable in each case to secure IPR protection .
11 It being their considered opinion , based on personal experience , that no one method is sufficient to meet their needs in adult life , they desire , therefore , that the Minister of Education shall with the utmost speed institute a Special Enquiry into the results of the present system and if necessary in the light of conclusions thus established , take such steps as he may think desirable to include the use of fingerspellng and signing , in conjunction with the oral teaching , in the curriculum of all Special Schools for the Deaf .
12 Partners may withdraw such funds as they may have agreed with their fellow partners to withdraw .
13 You have agreed to provide such confirmations as we may require . ]
14 You have agreed to provide such confirmations as we may require ] .
15 ‘ Guide dogs are trained not to pick up such morsels because they may eat something unpleasant or possibly even dangerous .
16 The Executive Committee shall be free to set up such committees as it may think fit and decide their terms of reference ; and have power to fill in any casual vacancies among the Honorary Officers , any officers so appointed serving until the next Annual General Meeting at which elections are due to take place .
17 As yet there is little agreement on haemostatic and platelet factors in such patients but it may offer a further method of risk stratification in the future .
18 But such benefits as we may find here and elsewhere entail countervailing disadvantages .
19 That report would include such grants as we may feel are of a which are of more corporate nature , rather than specifically a service based one , and how we would recommend the council to deal with them .
20 The landowner could terminate the tenancy at his pleasure , but , given the nature of farming , at pleasure would normally mean giving notice on certain days of the year , and allowing the tenant six months , principally in order to gather such crops as he may have planted .
21 Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory .
22 But there are not a few readers for such procedurals and you may feel that writing one of them is what you can do best .
23 Many private practises wo n't treat these groups and they may find it hard to get a local dentist in future .
24 There are more of these signals than we may realise .
25 New unions have now emerged which we have not faced before we must not dodge these challenges because they may appear difficult or hard and we must be prepared to learn off anybody who has something to show us to close our minds would be a mistake .
26 Banns are not necessary in these churches and you may get married in any church which is the place of worship for either you or your partner , whether you live in the parish or not .
27 There are many roles that you may have played or tasks that you may have undertaken that would be of interest to an employer .
28 A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting .
29 From that decision Morland J. concluded that it is an ordinary incident of all corporations that they may sue for libel and that that included municipal corporations .
30 In Romania , the government led by the reform communists who overthrew the dictatorship of Ceausescu has made so many mistakes that it may get a bad surprise in the parliamentary and presidential elections on May 20th .
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