Example sentences of "[noun] may [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began by arguing that adaptive radiation in the animal kingdom produces diversity and specialization , but that such a process may as commonly entail a structural atrophy , as in the case of parasites or cave fish , as it does some directional increase in complexity . |
| 2 | From our point of view the conference may as well have been organised by the Labour Party . |
| 3 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |
| 4 | Radio 5 and Manchester Of The Day may as well move their studios to Old Trafford . |
| 5 | You absolutely know it wo n't be , the other people may as well start work already . |
| 6 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 7 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 8 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 9 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |
| 10 | It follows that any work with children may and very probably will have sexual implications . |
| 11 | The system may as well do it , and present the operator with each applicant within the vacancy in turn in numerical order . |
| 12 | ‘ Corbett , you and your wide-eyed servant may as well sit . |
| 13 | Oh dear If you 're not going to eat that piece of cake Mark may as well throw it out . |
| 14 | For secondary school pupils , database creation may as yet mean very little outside the computer studies department but , on encountering some examples of databases in S1/S2 , they may remember similar exercises with football terms or animals in primary school . |