Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [conj] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in criminal law , look for all the possible torts that may have been committed , and consider whether their essentials have been satisfied . |
| 2 | A second variation applicable to industrial goods markets will be customer perceptions of operating characteristics , which may carry greater weight than the technical specifications that may form the basis of the supplier 's sales pitch . |
| 3 | Freud seems to give too much weight to the belief in Christ , and too little to the actual people in the church structures and the emotional ties that may build up between the ‘ secondary leader ’ and the believers . |
| 4 | This may be reflected in the faunal changes and may have brought to an end the stable conditions represented by the pure quartzites that extend all the way from the Welsh borderland to Morocco . |
| 5 | The drafter should therefore consider a wide range of precedents , to consider the different matters that may need to be dealt with , and the different ways in which individual problems can be overcome . |
| 6 | But it is not only education but all the social services that may help to improve the quality of labour in varying ways and degrees . |
| 7 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 8 | You will meet these patients again in the following chapters and may find it helpful to refer back to this chapter to refresh your memory when reading about them . |
| 9 | On the shores of the lake , or on one of the little islets that may form in the middle of it , they build their lodge , a great dome of sticks , poles , branches , reeds and mud within which they have their living chamber . |
| 10 | In order to emphasize the importance of this point , I devote the rest of the chapter to a discussion of the developmental rules that may influence mate choice in humans . |
| 11 | However , if we hyperventilate for even brief periods we increase the intensity of the initial symptoms and may bring on these more serious symptoms . |
| 12 | Some authors have suggested that somatostatin may act by a direct vasoconstrictive effect on the splanchnic arterioles or may lower intestinal vasodilating hormones and glucagon . |
| 13 | It 's cheaper than the five-door models and may suit drivers who seldom carry back-seat passengers , or who do the school run and prefer to keep children encapsulated . |
| 14 | The addition of a bubble-up or other filter filled with carbon , to the stored water , also removes chlorine and quite a few of the other nasties that may occur ( though charcoal/carbon is far from a panacea for all ills — it DOES NOT remove ammonia , nitrites , and nitrates despite some manufacturers ' claims ) . |
| 15 | The other symptoms that may give clues to the presence of gonococcal infection in the woman are mostly produced when complications , such as involvement of the fallopian tubes , have set in . |
| 16 | We must draw careful lessons from it — about the necessity for collective action and for creating new institutions in Europe to deal with the new conflicts that may spring up in our continent . |
| 17 | The default set of reference resolution rules in CLE-1 follows Hobbs ' pattern , but this set can easily be respecified to reflect the ordering argued for below ( or , indeed , to deal with the special circumstances that may arise in particular applications ) . |
| 18 | Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word . |
| 19 | to find about the local organisations that may offer help |