Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the period of protection for copyright may be extended to a uniform period , the extension of the term would not renew or re-establish copyright in any works where copyright may have expired . |
| 2 | Again this is not her prime responsibility and preparation for teaching may be limited . |
| 3 | While the bidding for contracts may nominally be through international competitive bidding arrangements between suppliers and members of a government , the award may in practice be carried out in ways which make it impossible for the Bank and other donors to police it . |
| 4 | In greater detail , the reasons for organisations may be described as follows : |
| 5 | It is that the actors ' desires , beliefs , and resulting reasons for action may be generated in turn by external factors . |
| 6 | But the existence of numerous alternative markets for short-term funds means the opportunity for intervention may be subject to a time-lag . |
| 7 | Food preferences during pregnancy may also be caused by hormonal influences on the sense of taste . |
| 8 | It is in the nature of these relations , as well as in the quantity and quality of employment , that the inequality between regions may be rooted . |
| 9 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Paddy 's Big Step The Liberal Democrats ' well-laid plans for power-sharing may be about to bear fruit . |
| 10 | In the words of Dunlop ( 1958 : 20 ) , the technological context of ‘ railroads has many distinctive features affecting the relations of managers and workers : the train operating divisions use small crews working together and in movement far from close and immediate supervision ; complex and expensive equipment is utilized with a high ratio of capital to worker ; … the costs of accidents can be consequential ; the hours of operations for equipment may be around the clock , and they do not conform to normal factory schedules … ’ . |
| 11 | The interest rates offered to large lessors seeking funding for assets may be less than those offered to small companies . |
| 12 | Indiscriminate enthusiasm for dovetailing may also sometimes lead to the 1st horn being placed too high . |
| 13 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 14 | The main reason for general practitioners ' enthusiasm for counselling may well be a desire to reduce contact with and responsibility for a very demanding group of patients . |
| 15 | Churchill 's support for détente may seem odd in view of his earlier criticisms of the ‘ iron curtain' , but Churchill was concerned at the dangers of global war ( especially after the explosion of hydrogen bombs by America and Russia in 1952 and 1953 ) ; he had hopes of establishing a reputation as a peacemaker , to match his reputation as a war leader ; and he believed Britain could play a major role as the arbiter between Moscow and Washington . |
| 16 | Common goldfish for example may reach a length of 45cm ( 18 inches ) given sufficient space and good water conditions . |
| 17 | In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer . |
| 18 | But , as we have just seen ( p. 127 ) , there are good reasons for thinking that the overt CR evoked by a CS for shock may fail to show context-specificity in spite of the fact that contextual cues can help the retrieval of associative information . |
| 19 | Responsibility for provision may change without corresponding changes in the source of finance . |
| 20 | Responsibility for individuals may be handed from one department or agency to another or individuals may be left to find their way through a maze of fragmented information , responsibilities and opportunities . |
| 21 | For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws . |
| 22 | In other cases , liability for libel may be avoided or reduced by timely apologies and offers of amends . |
| 23 | Liability for negligence may also be excluded by a provision imposing a duty on the other party to insure against a particular type of loss ( James Archdale & Co v Comservices [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 459 ) and such a clause might be used in a contract to install goods or machinery at the employer 's premises , requiring the employer , rather than the contractor , to insure the premises against damage caused by fire . |
| 24 | Liability for animals may also be based on negligence : |
| 25 | It is recognized that the everyday work of monitoring and negotiating is itself an expression of the agency 's legal mandate , and the legal rules about pollution may occasionally be invoked as part of the process of securing compliance . |
| 26 | We do n't have a in our business as many other retailers do where for instance after Christmas may be and other such things to clear we do n't have that , so there is n't any merchandise that 's been sold since Christmas that has been sold because we do n't want it to be in the inventory post year end it 's it 's just generating trade by being discount price left so therefore to a certain amount your question would be has the post Christmas and it was pre Christmas no material difference we 're very satisfied with the gross margins since Christmas we have n't had to take any extraordinary measures to generate this erm this level of sales increase that 's being achieved at constant margin a flat margin |
| 27 | In cases of breach of repairing covenants where three years or more of the lease remain unexpired a preliminary application for leave under s 1(3) of the Leasehold Property ( Repairs ) Act 1938 will be necessary before an action for forfeiture may be commenced . |
| 28 | Swapping speed for japery may well have resulted in the conversion of that fallen Boar into bacon . |
| 29 | As I understand it , Kitto J. is saying that the mere availability to the payee of summary remedies for non-payment may amount to sufficient compulsion on the payer to entitle him to recover irrespective of whether the payee has given any indication that he proposes to exercise such remedies . |
| 30 | The use of concomitant pyloroplasty ( no longer recommended ) and retention of a relatively small-bore sound in the oesophagus during fundoplication may have been contributing factors in some postoperative conditions such as dysphagia and gastritis , but should not have influenced the antireflux efficacy of fundoplication . |