Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] may [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your doctor may want to carry out an internal examination to check the size and position of your womb , which will help indicate how far along you are , or this may be done at your hospital appointment . |
| 2 | In some cases , the decision about quantity ( and indeed time ) may be dictated by considerations of future supply , particularly where these may be threatened by economic or political pressures . |
| 3 | In this instance he need only be concerned that income actually paid out to the children during their minorities or unmarried may be taxed upon him under TA 1988 , s663 . |
| 4 | As it has developed the residential unit , which incorporates 2 beds which can be used by the consultant providing the psychogeriatric services , has developed an emphasis on early diagnosis , assessment and rehabilitation Two people have moved into the unit from hospital and a further 3 or 4 may be rehoused in a group living situation in a house nearby . |
| 5 | Thus either construct 4 or 5 may be used . |
| 6 | Its five orchestras consume £12 million of Radio 3 's annual budget of £49 million , but a series of leaked memos has suggested that some or all may be on the hit-list when the BBC 's charter comes up for renewal in 1996 . |
| 7 | One of the offers may be recommended or all may be contested . |
| 8 | When freshly prepared , a period of 30 min or more may be required to stain the slides , but with maturity , this stain " ripens " and staining times can be progressively shortened . |
| 9 | Many of us who take 7 hours or more may be able to cope with less sleep without feeling sleepy , given training , but only those of us who were sleeping more than we really " needed " to . |
| 10 | They are covered by the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( FTA ) , under which mergers involving the takeover of assets worth ( currently ) £30m or more may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) . |
| 11 | Further studies investigate what occurs when a person is faced with a number of faces simultaneously from which one or more may be recognised . |
| 12 | Any member failing to pay his subscription for one year or more may be dismissed from membership by the Council at a duly convened meeting , or by a postal ballot of the voting members of Council . |
| 13 | All monetary sector institutions with eligible liabilities of £10 million or more may be called upon to place special deposits with the Bank . |
| 14 | In the long vacation , a graduate wishing to stay a week or more may be able to take a room in the Margery Fry and Elizabeth Nuffield House and cater for herself . |
| 15 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 16 | Either the dominance or the recession or both may be addictive in their repetitive pattern . |
| 17 | Option 1.3.2 or 1.3.3 may be used to selectively read out the modules that are not in error . |
| 18 | ‘ Houses are built to live in and not look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity except where both may be had . ’ |
| 19 | Statistical representativeness is not , of course , assured simply by means of large numbers ; a large sample , running into several hundreds or thousands may be selected in a way which makes it unrepresentative of the general population , while a small sample may , conversely , meet more precisely the criterion of representativeness . |
| 20 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 21 | That that may be |
| 22 | Well that that may be something which we ma will actually find out when we |
| 23 | When s3 is read together with s13 , it appears that that may be very wide indeed . |
| 24 | I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign . |
| 25 | People who are ‘ at risk ’ of having mentally handicapped children can be advised of this , and it is safe to assume that some may be deterred from proceeding to have a child . |
| 26 | One important distinction between these types of society is that some may be resistant to further development while others facilitate it , and thus a contrast is established between the development of society in Western Europe , through feudalism to capitalism , and the relative immutability of Asiatic societies . |
| 27 | Although this may be obscured by the second phase of London Bridge City , if the Simpson scheme is constructed the directors of Marketplace could find themselves with the unlikely view of a replica of the Piazza San Marco in Venice . |
| 28 | Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries . |
| 29 | Tins of paint may be more economical ; although this may be because they are student quality , and all paint is cheaper when bought in quantity . |
| 30 | more landmasses are above water than usual — although this may be a chicken-and-egg effect because during an ice age much of the world 's water is locked up as ice , so that ocean levels are lower |