Example sentences of "[noun] may [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the text may consist of connected prose passages , items of information about some aspect of British life , letters , newspaper articles and so on . |
| 2 | In fact , support may consist of saying ‘ I leave you to work out an answer to that problem ’ . |
| 3 | The notion of freedom may permit of degrees therefore ; whereas right is a right or it is nothing . |
| 4 | 1 A class of words may consist of all the words that may occupy a certain element in a structure , eg prepositions : such classes are positional classes . |
| 5 | With monetary policy the target variables may consist of some measures of the money supply or interest rates . |
| 6 | However , in the long term , Manchester can not be expected to keep all its Census data online indefinitely , and other sites holding the data may dispose of it as the level demand falls off . |
| 7 | Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal . |
| 8 | Readers may make of this what they will . |
| 9 | ( I miss out the word puking from this Shakespearean phrase since I know of few instances in which a baby has strained the cassock of the clergyman baptising it , though doubtless readers may know of one . ) |
| 10 | Second , the benefit may consist of the enjoyment by the employee of services or facilities which it is part of the employer 's business to sell to the public , for example concessionary travel for railway or airline employees or concessionary education for the children of schoolteachers ( ‘ in-house benefits ’ ) . |
| 11 | 2.15 Section 3 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 amended the 1976 Act so as to insert a new s1A , which provides that an action under the Act may consist of or include a claim for damages for bereavement in the case of causes of action accruing after 1 January 1983 . |
| 12 | Whatever ramblers may think of mountain bikers ( and I will be the first to admit that they can occasionally be annoying ) , the fact is that they are mostly young people , enjoying the countryside , keeping fit and getting fresh air , which is surely something we all subscribe to . |
| 13 | Thus , a condition or situation which is highly deprivatory in this respect for one man or woman under certain circumstances may seem of minor consequence for another person or against a different circumstantial background . |
| 14 | I think he allows her considerable freedom over her — her weakness , you know , and so she is quite content to work for him whatever the village may say of him , and they do , to be sure , say some very foolish things . |
| 15 | In this sense his Habsburg and Bourbon portraits are not dissimilar to Jasper Johns ' American flag series , except of course that the flag , whatever individuals may think of it , is unquestionably American , the lineage is clear . |
| 16 | Economists may think of the interests of nations in terms of wealth , and lawyers in terms of adherence to legal rules working to one 's advantage . |
| 17 | So some European banks may think of buying a cheap American network in a shake-out of America 's banking industry . |
| 18 | Each specific protein has its own particular sequence of amino acids and a singular protein molecule may consist of dozens , hundreds or even thousands of these amino acid units . |
| 19 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 20 | Cleaning may consist of a quick dust or ‘ whip round ’ for the harassed housewife , and to some eyes at least it will still look as though the house has been cleaned — hence the expression ‘ eye service ’ ( 'I 've just given the house eye service today' ) . |
| 21 | Contributions by partners or participants may consist of cash or of contributions in kind . |
| 22 | Great things may come of it . |
| 23 | Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism . |
| 24 | Some evidence may consist of tightly controlled laboratory experiments on motivational systems or genetics . |
| 25 | The Department of Transport , not the DTI , will be the sponsoring body for the privatisation of BR , but any hopes that Heseltine may harbour of an industrial troika with new Transport Secretary John MacGregor and Chancellor Norman Lamont , who helped to defeat his leadership bid , may prove overoptimistic . |
| 26 | The signature may consist of initials . |
| 27 | We recognize that the shift in the balance of power in appointment matters from LEAs to governing bodies may seem of itself to resolve this issue . |
| 28 | The page may consist of text , images , or a mixture of both . |
| 29 | Ministers and perhaps civil servants may think of local authorities as useful agents for carrying out policies decided nationally in government departments and approved by Parliament . |
| 30 | Patients may complain of intractable pain in the neck or the back of the head . |