Example sentences of "the [noun] may go " in BNC.

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1 Filtering the definitions may go some way towards reducing this effect , and is suggested as an area for further research .
2 If these occasions are known , the worker and supervisor may make a joint decision that only one member of staff from the Department may go .
3 Congress and the administration may go for a sharp rise in the average miles per gallon required of car makers , instead of the much more efficient solution of higher petrol taxes .
4 Assuming proceeds of £1.5 billion , around 50% of the proceeds may go in prizes , as a smaller proportion would not make the lottery attractive enough .
5 The timetable provides for a minimum — I stress that it is a minimum — of 50 hours in Committee , and the Committee may go beyond that if it wishes to do so .
6 When at last the shrill voice was silent the Trapper said : ‘ She says the boy may go but you are to stay here . ’
7 The job may go under different titles on different stations around the world , but essentially that 's what I 'll be from Monday on , even if you do earn more than me . ’
8 On the Yacht Policies the excess may go as high as $1000 so care should be taken to apply the Policy excess to each and every claim to which it is appropriate — refer to the Excess Guide and the underwriting risk screen on the Polisy system for full details .
9 The original may go to our client at his/her home address .
10 While the changes may go some way to prolong the life of existing fields , there are fears that it could discourage the development of new ones .
11 If left outside in winter , the plastic may go brittle and crack .
12 It is not therefore a question on which the tribunal may go right or wrong .
13 With the stress on ‘ Eastbourne ’ , the speaker may go on to say that she travels to Bexhill by bus .
14 To be very specific is dangerous , because if we attempt to clothe the image too precisely U becomes restricted , less of ‘ light ’ and more of ‘ substance ’ , and the life may go from it .
15 The mystified motorist whose car has gone wrong may know only that it needs repair and that he should take it to a mechanic : his competence to deal with the matter may go no further .
16 The searcher may go astray because either some supposed fact is wrong or it applies modus ponens in an irrelevant way , but it will never arrive at any result which is not a strict consequence of its start state .
17 The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway .
18 Deal & Kennedy suggest the following in situations where the culture may go against successful implementation :
19 But the bearish view was not universally held and Nicholas Knight , the UK equities strategist at Nomura , said : ‘ The market may go lower but the time to buy is now .
20 In the case of a radical re-organisation , the client may go through the most racking torment of pain , and a complete and chaotic confusion .
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