Example sentences of "the [noun] may [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 2 | As an alternative to a good kicking , the gang may decide to have some fun once they have rushed you . |
| 3 | Lying as it does near the putative centre of the town , the building may have had some public function . |
| 4 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 5 | But for her to speak at all suggests that the discovery may have released some few small drops of adrenalin into her blood , too . |
| 6 | But competition from Italy will be intense — even though the Italians may have drained some of their resources in their own tour , the Giro d'Italia in June . |
| 7 | L trials are usually more difficult to organize the teacher may have to plan some considerable way ahead before you can observe lessons where he has used the program several times before . |
| 8 | The younger members of the crew may have got some sleep that night but the older ones , who should have known better , arrived back at four o'clock in the morning , with half the town and a piper who , traditionally , concluded the night 's festivities on the pier . |
| 9 | The landlord may wish to have some control over the external colour scheme , but the tenant should resist a provision for the landlord 's consent to the internal colour scheme , except perhaps in the last year of the term where the tenant does not propose to seek a renewal . |
| 10 | The propaganda may have had some success ; it was , nevertheless , necessary . |
| 11 | Killing people simply in order to satisfy hunger is hardly one of humanity s more endearing habits ( and anyway seems always to have been rare ) , but the consumption of dead heroes can be seen as a mark of respect , in that the eaters may hope to inherit some of the admired qualities of the deceased . |
| 12 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 13 | None of the four can be definitely linked with Gloucester in the 1470s , although the Calthorpes may have kept some connections with him . |
| 14 | If it does exist the gene may help resolve some of the questions about how antibiotics work and give clues for new antibiotics . |