Example sentences of "[pron] may [verb] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I may long for her . |
| 2 | ‘ My lord , if I may speak for Shrewsbury , both abbey and town , I must tell you how grateful we are that Saint Winifred fell into such noble hands as yours . |
| 3 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 4 | I append a list of the 15 drawings that we should like to borrow , and should be grateful if you would assign individual values to them so that I may arrange for them to be covered by government indemnity while in our care . |
| 5 | While I am on my feet , perhaps I may apologise for referring in an earlier answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton , North when I meant my hon. Friend the Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth ( Mr. Dickens ) , who made the suggestion . |
| 6 | I may look for another opportunity to talk to Mrs Tate . ’ |
| 7 | If I may digress for a moment , I refer him in turn to the successful water system invented by the Greeks at Pergamon . |
| 8 | I feel confident because I know I came out to help : directly , by leading them as well as an officer can ; indirectly , by watching their sufferings so that I may plead for them as well as I can . |
| 9 | Further , the need for many victims to bring a civil action against the perpetrator requires continuing contact with the offender which may extend for years in a protracted case . |
| 10 | Such reversals , which may last for a period of several years , have been observed on the east coast . |
| 11 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 12 | Labov 's quite proper feelings of pleasure are evident to any reader of his article ; he plainly views the episode as an example of the opportunities which may arise for linguists to repay a debt to the communities they have worked with . |
| 13 | This reserve will be used to offset any losses which may arise for each trade or gang during the progress of the contract . |
| 14 | Some insurance companies offer small sum policies , with monthly or annual premiums , which may pay for the funeral when someone dies , however much has been put into the scheme . |
| 15 | Ferranti 's move came in the wake of complaints about a market turndown from rivals such as Racal and Thomson CSF — the French group which may bid for Ferranti with British Aerospace . |
| 16 | Which may account for Minister Peter Walker 's recent description of agriculture as an ‘ outstanding success ’ . |
| 17 | But sadly , the general quality of fishkeeping books is not good , I feel , which may account for some of the specific problems we encounter . |
| 18 | In the case of cocaine this effect is direct , which may account for the drug 's peculiar potency . |
| 19 | We used paraffin sections which may account for the 50% sensitivity that we found . |
| 20 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
| 21 | The analyses are used to look for patterns in the types of information available from stimuli which may account for the previous risk and recognition results and the relationships between risk and recognition . |
| 22 | Moreover , the reduced plasminogen activator activity of malignant ascites is caused by increased concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , which may account for the lower incidence of coagulopathy after insertion of shunts seen in this group of patients . |
| 23 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 24 | — Can you justify the time needed to view , say , the recordings of five groups , which may run for five minutes each — a total of twenty-five minutes ? |
| 25 | Stomach troubles from sour food or drink is another situation which may call for this remedy . |
| 26 | Other areas covered are : how to apply for a grant ; who may apply for a grant ; inheritance tax ; settling the estate ; intestacy ; and other sources of information . |
| 27 | The 1938 Act was repealed and replaced by the Inheritance ( provision for Family and Dependants ) Act 1975 , which increases the range of dependants who may apply for provision on death and gives the court wider powers than previously existed so that it can make whatever type of order may be most appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 28 | This permission will not unreasonably be withheld and we will not have any claim on any recompense you may negotiate for yourself . |
| 29 | What you 've got ta recognize , well you may go for both . |
| 30 | You know , you may go for a long time and not see any , then you 'll see two or three in possibly a week . |