Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 2 | Some of the newcomers — weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers — are highly transitory and may take little interest in village social activities . |
| 3 | ‘ Normative egalitarianism ’ involves possibilities 1–8 and may entail the establishment of a socialist society . |
| 4 | If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk . |
| 5 | In many cases , ordinary infections could be pinpointed , though some deaths were left unexplained and may have been due to EBHS . |
| 6 | Romanyshyn 's exposition of the critique is , however , forceful and lively and may stimulate those working within the traditional paradigm at least to justify their indifference , if not to question their perspective . |
| 7 | But a democracy in which some groups , ethnic , religious or political , are permanently in a minority , and so in opposition , is likely to be unstable and may lose legitimacy . |
| 8 | The infection is usually blood-borne and may infect almost any organ in the body . |
| 9 | Information and advice may be different and may require different communication skills on the part of the adviser . |
| 10 | The 27-year-old man , already serving a life sentence for one murder , has been charged with another and may hold the secret to other unsolved killings . |
| 11 | A poorly-run gasifier rapidly becomes unusable and may destroy the engine to which it is attached . |
| 12 | The reason for the biphasic peaks of APGPR in serum is not clear but may come about as a result of two phases of pancreatic procolipase secretion corresponding to early , cephalic , vagally mediated pancreatic secretion of low volume but rich in pancreatic enzymes followed by a duodenal phase in response to CCK and secretin as acidified , partially digested food enters the duodenum . |
| 13 | The lower dose equivalence for QTc interval remains unexplained but may reflect compensatory mechanisms or greater β 2 selectivity of salmeterol . |
| 14 | IBM might even be able to put the machine into volume production during 1993 but may settle for a system to offload CICS terminal handling to start with . |
| 15 | to examine to what extent such travel is localised or may require modelling over the conurbations as a whole . |
| 16 | Some risks may not be appropriate or may increase the premium unreasonably or unnecessarily . |
| 17 | Have we any idea as to how much that may grow by over the next two or three years ? |
| 18 | In any situation where someone has died , it may be assumed that more people are likely to be significantly affected by the death of that one individual than may seem apparent . |
| 19 | Others become agitated and may seem very demanding . |
| 20 | There is fierce competition in this lucrative market , with polytechnics and universities mounting recruitment drives in the middle and far east using high-powered sales techniques , some of which are not wholly appropriate and may lead to unrealistic expectations on the part of prospective students . |
| 21 | Midland may at its discretion change these Terms and Conditions , give notice of variation in such a manner as it considers appropriate and may vary its charges and interest rates by general notice in branches . |
| 22 | It says here do n't put it likely to be very insecure and may misinterpret what reaction . |
| 23 | Teenagers get extra bolshie and may fall foul of the law . |
| 24 | The practical implications of these matters are very real and may escape some of us microwave aces , for example . |
| 25 | Proceedings under the Children Act 1989 are civil but may involve allegations of very serious misconduct . |
| 26 | Many French dishes are basically simple but may take a long time to prepare in the traditional way . |
| 27 | This idea is not so far-fetched as may appear at first glance . |
| 28 | The cannon is unharmed and may shoot as normal next turn . |
| 29 | Sir Ranulph , 48 , also has visited a London hospital for medical opinion about his foot , which is severely frost-bitten and may require a skin graft . |
| 30 | The storage problem persisted until 1986 and may have contributed to NIOC 's later decision to bypass Kharg altogether . |