Example sentences of "[conj] may [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some PCs these days can already offer this type of performance or may offer a one megabyte graphics card as an optional extra for as little as £20 over the price of a 512K card . |
| 2 | The adviser may feel inadequate to discuss the problem or may justify a referral using the many benefits cases waiting in the waiting room as an excuse . |
| 3 | Transient ischaemia , often with plaque rupture and formation of platelet fibrin thrombi , distal embolisation , and possibly local vasoconstriction may serve as a primary cause of cardiac arrest or may modulate a fixed arrhythmogenic substrate . |
| 4 | The greatest possible self-created order , he wrote , compatible of course with the freedom to work , which may mean very little order indeed or may mean a great deal of order , depending on the individual and the circumstances . |
| 5 | Auctions may be strict auctions or may have an element of flexibility , however the terms and timetable of the auction must be clearly laid down , normally in the transmittal letter , and strictly adhered to . |
| 6 | He may simply assist a competitor in any way which does or may have an adverse and material effect on his employer 's business . |
| 7 | ( A dog may have a birth abnormality , or may lose a leg in an accident . ) |
| 8 | It may be just a surface for bacteria or may play a more active part in filtration . |
| 9 | A growing interest in developing co-operative training schemes was noted , fostered partly by the introduction of the pre-licentiate scheme which has encouraged libraries of all types to look at how to use resources to maximum advantage for programmes that may involve a small number , or possibly only one , staff member , and it was concluded that the potential for co-operative schemes to satisfy many of the objectives currently being met ( adequately or inadequately ) by external courses , has barely been harnessed . |
| 10 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 11 | If you mind that anyway , cos I may have a couple of people er that may want a few of them to , spoken to Dav , David , he 's got one or two as well . |
| 12 | Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea ? |
| 13 | The decision to ‘ open a case ’ marks a critical difference in the construction of and response to a person 's problems , and confers potential gains and losses ; the latter includes the danger of being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions that may threaten a person 's autonomy . |
| 14 | It no longer makes 9mm rounds for small arms , or Giant Vipers , a weapon that may play a vital role in opening up Iraqi minefields during an allied offensive . |
| 15 | These are some of the milestone constituencies to watch out for tonight — early declarations , marginals that may indicate a trend , ministers whose seats are at risk and well-known candidates . |
| 16 | It is stupid to rush into the sort of vigorous exercise that may aggravate a medical condition and , of course , it also depends on how fit you are already . |
| 17 | Never display anything that may tempt a thief . |
| 18 | The mapping of these units has enabled a pattern of faulting to be recognised in the Upper Chalk outcrop that may have a bearing on its properties as an aquifer . |
| 19 | States shall provide prior and time timely notification and relevant information to potentially affected States on activities that may have a significant adverse trans transboundary |
| 20 | Continued avoidance of other substances or behaviours that may have a comparable , destructive , mood-altering effect on the individual sufferer . |
| 21 | One consequence of these extension schemes that may have a serious effect upon arts education is the way that some authorities are pushing for arts subjects to be taught as part of modular courses , which could lead to a reduction of the number of two-year examination courses in separate arts subjects . |
| 22 | Just by changing the colour of the walls and soft furnishings you can provide a completely new background that may have a profound effect on the existing furniture , making it look entirely different . |
| 23 | The outlook for patients after the diagnosis of cancer of the exocrine pancreas is uniformly poor and suggests the existence of a mechanism(s) that may have a role in promoting tumour growth . |
| 24 | Cyclosporin concentrations are checked only in those patients who are receiving additional treatments that may have an appreciable interaction with the immunosuppressant . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , for spiritual recovery to have the best opportunity for development , it must be true that sufferers from any form of addictive disease would ultimately be best advised to avoid all substances and behaviours that may have an inappropriate mood-altering effect . |
| 26 | Suckling at the breast provides a stimulus for the pituitary gland to release prolactin that may have an effect ( through not fully clarified ways ) on ovulation and amenorrhoea . |
| 27 | Secondly , MAS will search our databases of publicly available information to identify other organisations that may have an interest in [ type of industry ] . |
| 28 | Any key areas of uncertainty that may have an impact on price . |
| 29 | 1 A class of words may consist of all the words that may occupy a certain element in a structure , eg prepositions : such classes are positional classes . |
| 30 | ACE Communications Ltd has come up with Spidernet ( a name that may cause a few concerns for the Edinburgh-based Spider Systems Ltd ) a hub that supports both Token Ring and direct-attached coaxial and twinaxial connections . |