Example sentences of "[indef pn] may [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all so much work and nothing may come of it . |
| 2 | Nonetheless there is a tendency within the academic establishment to regard the exposition of the black-letter law and the exhaustive analyses of concepts as the totality of the concerns of the academic criminal lawyer ; indeed one may speak of an attempt , conscious or otherwise , to distort the data to fit the expositor 's ideal . |
| 3 | This sense of heavy requires fairly narrowly defined contextual conditions : one may speak of a heavy smoker , or a heavy drug-user , a car may be heavy on petrol , etc . |
| 4 | Although one may talk of the ‘ total or partial destruction ’ of an object such as a building or a railway yard which may be a military objective , it is quite different , and unacceptable , to speak of the destruction of an area of land . |
| 5 | As we have seen , it is difficult to know in what sense one may talk of an unselfconscious elite , and Bachrach and Baratz 's more limited point is the more cogent . |
| 6 | One may think of an army brigade as being composed of battalions , battalions made up of companies and companies made up of platoons . |
| 7 | One may think of similarly structured expressions within one category — differing only in lexical items — as stable sub-assemblies with an independent communicative value of their own . |
| 8 | One may believe of God that God is equally available to people in all times and places . |
| 9 | Rather , to adopt the method involves accepting that there is a ‘ reality ’ , which is as it is independently of what anyone may think of it , but which suitably organized inquiry is fated to discover eventually ; around the early 1870s Peirce speaks of reality as the final cause of inquiry . |
| 10 | ‘ Various people have given me the names of its chauffeurs over the years — , and , but I would be glad of any further information anyone may have of this wonderful carriage ’ he said . |