Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [that] it be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the value of privacy may act against the interests of family members ; neighbours may consider that it is not their business to interfere and the beaten wife-at least before the growth of women 's self-help centres — may find that she has nowhere to go ( Pizzey , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 3 | Sometimes you may feel that it is really not worth repeating what seems trivial or unimportant ; the effort is tiring , even exhausting . |
| 4 | Yet if we reflect a moment , we may realize that it is not so ingenuous after all . |
| 5 | You may believe that it is just because I am an extremely popular person . |
| 6 | This is such hard work that you may decide that it is n't worth the effort and abandon your attempt to acquire the skills in question . |
| 7 | Finally , if an animal is coping with extremely adverse conditions by self-narcotisation , I would say that its welfare is poor but the effect of the narcotic may mean that it is not suffering . |
| 8 | The Minister may recall that it is almost a year since I first raised in the House the matter of the proposed incinerator in Renfrew . |
| 9 | I may say that it was not my intention to allow Harold Wilson to become involved in a full-scale lawsuit in circumstances where not so much odium but ridicule would be poured on him . |