Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [conj] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The US National Commission on Air Quality ( 1981 ) typically found that models may overpredict or underpredict from actual concentrations by a factor of two .
2 Such people may believe that staying on friendly terms with the salesperson and at the end of the interview stating that they will think over the proposal is the best tactic in a no-buy situation .
3 Similar routines can be developed in the case of other fears which dogs may acquire that lead to aggressive behaviour .
4 First , they may pick and choose among organized groups those with which they are keen to associate for political reasons , giving them consultation rights and access to decisions at an early stage .
5 This chapter introduces five patients whose surgical histories are used throughout the book to illustrate how the nursing responsibilities discussed in each chapter may differ when applied to individual patients .
6 The Resource Options Programme is concerned to analyse the scope for and constraints upon ethnicity as a principle of economic organisation and group identity , paying special attention to localism as an alternative principle by which groups may organise or identify for particular purposes .
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