Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not , of course , denying that societies may exist within a specific set of habits and ways of life , which may be transformed by , among other things , excessive immigration . |
| 2 | These theories suggest that collusion may or may not be successful in a particular market : that depends on the values taken by a set of market or firm-specific parameters . |
| 3 | The provisions made by his executors to establish loan chests at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge after his death suggest that Gilbert may have received some sort of university education . |
| 4 | Our results indicate that epidermal LC express functional cadherins and suggest that cadherins may be responsible for certain biological properties of these highly specialized bone marrow-derived cells , including their propensity to persist in epidermis . |
| 5 | Several recent studies , including the OECD 's latest report on the French economy , suggest that France may actually import too little . |
| 6 | Recent reports suggest that oedema may be an important component of the changes . |
| 7 | Previous studies which suggest that loperamide may be effective in the treatment of diarrhoea associated with acute radiation enteritis provide no insights into the mechanisms of action , as only symptoms were evaluated . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the findings suggest that smoking may seriously reduce the chances of pregnancy after IVF- ET . |
| 9 | The preliminary results of a multicentre study suggest that octreotide may increase the incidence of ERCP induced pancreatitis . |
| 10 | The architectural parallels between Canterbury and Chichester suggest that William may have been the master architect at Chichester during the rebuilding of 1187–99 . |
| 11 | These findings suggest that cyclosporin may be of benefit to the colon in patients with ulcerative colitis who are being treated with cyclosporin for primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 12 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 13 | Several indirect lines of evidence suggest that nucleation may be more important than biliary cholesterol supersaturation in the pathogenesis of recurrent gall bladder stones . |
| 14 | New methods of detecting the presence of organic compounds in fish suggest that pollutants may be killing them and other marine species in smaller concentrations than previously thought . |
| 15 | Many feminists suggest that training may reduce sex differences , for instance differences in spatial ability and aggression . |
| 16 | We suggest that anti-lactoferrin may be of pathogenetic significance by counteracting the antiphlogistic properties of lactoferrin at mucosal surfaces , thereby aggravating and/or sustaining mucosal inflammation initiated by other factors . |
| 17 | Recent reports suggest that EFA may now be running more than 50% over budget . |
| 18 | It will also evaluate a range of explanations which suggest that wages may be set above the market clearing level for efficient reasons . |
| 19 | They also proposed that dealers may hold competing dealerships in an area and provide other services outside their territories . |
| 20 | A share certificate will contain two statements on which the company will know that reliance may be placed . |
| 21 | In accordance with legislation in force at the time of adoption of the Savings Related Share Option Scheme in 1990 the Rules provide that employees may exercise their options on reaching state pension age , even if they continue to work after that date . |
| 22 | It is also expected that IBM may want to shed up to a further 30,000 people from its 300,000-strong pay roll , with undisguised lay-offs clearly on the agenda . |
| 23 | Such codes should always be accompanied by sanctions for offenders , and must recognise that misunderstandings may well occur as a result of the purchaser 's mistaken expectations , as well as by the failure on the part of the provider of the service or the manufacturer of the product to deliver . |
| 24 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 25 | In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins . |
| 26 | We realise that names may appear on several sheets if a Student failed a test and resat but the Tutor can easily strike out or blank out information not required by the Board . |
| 27 | The guidelines say that embryos may only be frozen and stored if they are to be used for in vitro fertilisation later on . |
| 28 | It has also been reported that diabetics may have increased vascular sensitivity to angiotensin II ( Christlieb , 1976 ; Weidmann et al , 1979 ) . |
| 29 | Maron et al ( 1977 ) found that marathon running increases core temperature while Smith et al ( 1978 ) found that hyperthermia may place the fetus of the exercising woman at risk . |
| 30 | There is sufficient evidence to indicate that students may differ markedly in the ways they set about learning . |