Example sentences of "[art] [adj] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more remunerative price structure for agricultural products and other measures to raise incomes for the poorest may encourage the use of purchased alternative fuels other than wood or cowdung . |
| 2 | However , I 'm sure that it will be only a short time before the imaginative gentleman of this funeral business ( or after-care service , as it apparently now likes to be called ) will overcome these problems that in any case may be outweighed by one great advantage to which he points with pride : namely , that it is above all discreet , in that the girlfriend of the departed may view at any time , giving any name , and the wife and family will be none the wiser ! |
| 3 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |
| 4 | The children of the rich may work in health food shops or other faddish and esoteric pursuits which utilize their educational experience and may provide a more acceptable form of class reproduction than simple inheritance . |
| 5 | It is true that the cost to the Exchequer is below average because no benefits are paid ( though there is still a loss of potential taxation ) , but the unemployed may suffer from lack of income , boredom and depression in just the same way as the counted unemployed ; furthermore , since they are capable and available for work , they represent a loss of potential output . |
| 6 | The close association between the visual and the cultural may explain the reluctance of some teachers to give it much attention . |
| 7 | Of course , and I hesitate to broach the matter , the English may have arranged Alexander III 's death but to what advantage ? |
| 8 | The British may say that if the French have a word for it , then le corbeau must be an old French habit . |
| 9 | Cutting ticket prices for the French may have helped the park nearly to hit its attendance targets , but it has also eaten into revenues . |
| 10 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 11 | The French may have their fancy patisseries , but give me an English pudding any day . |
| 12 | The French may help him . |
| 13 | The economic climate of the 1980's may give new significance to the DRAs . |
| 14 | The utilitarian may argue that everything is imperfect and that half a loaf is better than no bread . |
| 15 | The enthusiasm for canal stock in the 1790s may have been the greater because the yield on Consols had not been very gratifying between 1784 and 1792 . |
| 16 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 17 | The Japanese may avoid explicit objections because politeness demands that the seller does not lose face . |
| 18 | The accused may admit the exposure was wilful etc. verbally and/or by making a statement under caution . |
| 19 | ( h ) The accused may commit the s.2(1) ( b ) offence either by intending to make permanent default of his own liability or intending to let another make permanent default , but the liability must be his own : Attewell-Hughes , above . |
| 20 | Any conversation with or comments made by the accused may help to prove his actions were prompted by an indecent motive . |
| 21 | The accused may have the requisite intent ; if not s.6 can supply it . |
| 22 | ‘ This may have been a mixture of excitement , curiosity and immaturity — and the payment of money by the accused may have had an influence , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It should be noted , however , that in Lawrence there was an appropriation when the accused obtained goods by deception ; that under Lawrence the accused may appropriate when the parties are in a contractual relationship ; and that Lawrence shows that the same facts can amount to theft and obtaining property by deception . |
| 24 | It should be noted that ( a ) where the accused 's behaviour falls within s.2(1) , Ghosh is irrelevant : Wootton , above ; ( b ) that the accused may act dishonestly even though he did something which the civil law allows him to do , such as retain the overpayment of a bet ( Gilks [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 1341 ) ; and ( c ) that as a result of Lawrence v DPP , above , a person may be dishonest despite the fact that the owner has consented to the appropriation . |
| 25 | On the other hand " correct " forms of action which approach the impossible may acquire aesthetic merit in the process . |
| 26 | Nor was this a purely archaic problem : the border trouble with Megara in the 460s may reflect population pressure in the Corinthia . |
| 27 | The following may help . |
| 28 | If Indie — introverted left-field guitar-based music — is preferred , any of the following may please : |
| 29 | Variation and discharge The following may apply for variation or discharge of a s8 order : ( i ) anyone entitled to apply for an order under a s8 order without seeking leave ( see above ) ; ( ii ) the person who applied for the original order ; or ( iii ) in the case of a contact order , the person named in the order . |
| 30 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |