Example sentences of "[noun sg] may of course " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text may of course be printed in the programme , but this is by no means a common usage . |
| 2 | All calculations of this kind may of course be upset , but almost invariably because of a swing in the electorate 's judgment not of candidates but of their politics . |
| 3 | Acts of resistance may of course continue to be initiated through individual acts of will , but as for Sartre there is no guarantee that they will produce intended effects . |
| 4 | The freeholder may of course sell the land or property subject to the leaseholder 's interest being maintained . |
| 5 | Legislation and practice may of course change . |
| 6 | The site may of course benefit from such covenants which have previously been imposed on adjoining landowners . |
| 7 | A fixed charge may of course be attacked as a preference where it is given to secure past value but not as a transaction at an undervalue since the assets of the company are not diminished by the creation of the charge . |
| 8 | The amount certified for any individual subcontractor may of course be less than that claimed . |
| 9 | The voter may of course reject the outcome ; e.g. , with local public goods he may migrate to another community ( in this sense , the minority may have an element of veto power — see Lecture 17 ) . |
| 10 | The adopted norm may of course ( as in the case of the epistolary novel ) become a literary norm or a convention in itself . |
| 11 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 12 | Any unit of information may of course change status as the discourse proceeds , and what was new in one sentence becomes given in the next , precisely because it has just been said . |
| 13 | This meal may of course be of gargantuan proportions and much snacking of high-energy foods may precede its consumption . |
| 14 | Such progression may of course merely be preempted by the worse prognosis of HIV disease itself . |
| 15 | So a single-member company may of course have one member , but will normally need two officers , ie the member/director and another person as company secretary . |
| 16 | A company may of course have only one director . |
| 17 | But the variable of interest may of course genuinely swing around abruptly ; the monthly count of unemployed people rises very sharply when school-leavers come on to the register , for example . |
| 18 | The penalty under the latter section may of course be up to 100% of the undeclared tax as opposed to the pay and file penalties of £100 , £200 plus 10% or 20% of underpaid tax . |
| 19 | A third party may of course make diplomatic representations or bring pressure to bear upon a State to perform what it perceives to be that State 's treaty obligations with another State , although such action is likely to be resented as unwarranted interference in external affairs . |