Example sentences of "[noun] may [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its practical object is to gain access to certain documents disclosed by the Police Complaints Authority ( ‘ P.C.A. ’ ) by order of this court for use in a criminal appeal , so that C.N.L. may use them in the libel action . |
| 2 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 3 | His experience may tell him that it may be unnecessary or inappropriate in the circumstances , but failure to take one may become visible to headquarters . |
| 4 | Indeed like having children , the experience may bring you eyeball to eyeball with some of the thoroughly unpleasant aspects of your own personality . |
| 5 | Certain forms of writing , such as academic articles , extend this even further and writers are required to develop skills in explicitness , and in being aware of hidden assumptions , so that readers who have not directly had the writer 's experience may understand it . |
| 6 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 7 | If you ca n't , but would n't mind keeping the draft till you 're in Prague ( it 's good for six months ) , it may be less of a hassle cashing it there , especially as the bank in Brno may charge you something for the transaction . |
| 8 | The rapid rise may suggest he is wedded to the bank . |
| 9 | If , after filtering the clones , a probe having more than 2 ( N — 1 ) neighbours is found , it is reported as a ‘ suspect ’ one and the user may remove it from the analysis and repeat the procedure . |
| 10 | If writing on an electronic tablet , which combines the input and display devices , the user may find it disconcerting to see the handwriting changing under their pen . ) |
| 11 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 12 | Mr Beregovoy may claim he has nothing to reproach himself for , but his acceptance of an interest-free one million franc ( £125,000 ) loan from a shady businessman looks suspicious to say the least . |
| 13 | This is particularly dangerous because the weight and drag of the second cable may make it difficult to get the nose down . |
| 14 | Furthermore , cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis . |
| 15 | Some employers may encourage you to start with fewer hours than you think you can manage , with the intention of adding to these as you gain more confidence . |
| 16 | If you 're unlucky enough to have a machine that goes wrong regularly , a service contract may save you hundreds of pounds . |
| 17 | The courts may recognize them , but the courts have no power to enforce them . |
| 18 | The courts may find it impossible to categorise every procedure it is asked to review as either a reference to an expert or an arbitrator . |
| 19 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 21 | Secondly , the buyer may find it easier to establish that it was not a contractual document . |
| 22 | After 12 years of negotiation the half mile footpath from Jepsons Gate to Alance Bridge , Anglezarke has been upgraded to bridleway status — this means that both cyclists and horse riders may use it . |
| 23 | Approaching from another angle , there is at least one answer which has the same claim to finality as ‘ I enjoy it ’ ( finality in the sense that no further reason may be demanded , although other reasons may outweigh it ) . |
| 24 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 25 | Teachers who enjoy their work , feel supported by colleagues and can speak frankly about their ideas and difficulties in the staffroom and in meetings may find it hard to believe ( unless they have recently worked in such a school themselves ) the stories that other teachers tell about suspicion , isolation and backbiting in the school down the road . |
| 26 | Face-to-face conversation in quiet circumstances may be easy , but group chatter or background noise may make it impossible to understand the speaker . |
| 27 | ‘ Those who engage in and encourage secret plans and conspiracies may think they are patriots , but they are the worst enemies of their country . ’ |
| 28 | In one form or another these different facets of the modern English concept of marriage reappear in most of the cross-cultural examples which I shall mention later though some of the particular forms may strike you as surprising . |
| 29 | Lack of takes may induce him to wander and do a complete tour of the lake whilst his rods are still ‘ fishing ’ . |
| 30 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |