Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind must be blowing from them to you , since this not only minimises the noise you may inadvertently make but it prevents your scent blowing towards the rabbits and giving them advance warning that all 's not well . |
| 2 | On the contrary , it may not last but it represents perhaps one way to move away from traditional easel painting , for example . |
| 3 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 4 | Some of us though , working at the ground , grass roots ma may not know that it goes on , and er , I would just like to take this opportunity of stressing how important it is to , that we communicate within the United Kingdom , and er , support Nigel 's er , suggestion that it would be useful to have a base down here . |
| 5 | He may not believe that it applies in his particular case . |
| 6 | It may even claim that it has had more complaints of bias from the Labour Party . |
| 7 | On average , four years of predominantly animal trials are conducted pre-clinically and may well continue after it has eventually been licensed . |
| 8 | This sort of listing is worth knowing by a reader , who may occasionally notice that it underlies the degree of attention being paid to a theme by a critic . |