Example sentences of "[pron] may [vb infin] [that] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 2 | The lake is on the edge of the National Park and , like many of the accessible Pyrenean lakes , part of the vast hydroelectric network of the region , which may mean that by late summer , if it has been dry down below , the waters have been piped off and the lake has shrunk . |
| 3 | You may think that in a democracy you too can flick idly through ice-screws and ropes , but the moment you prod anything with an inquisitive finger , an assistant will leap on you with a quiz as to your standard of rock-climbing . |
| 4 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 5 | When you first trot these out , you may find that to your ears they sound artificial and contrived . |
| 6 | You may find that with judicious use of available cash you 're not quite as badly off as you feared . |
| 7 | Also , you may find that in taking this concrete approach , you are making your nouns work harder for you and using fewer adjectives . |
| 8 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Owen , ‘ I think you may find that in future that party is not quite as strong as it has been . ’ |
| 9 | As a general point , however , if you plan your finances with a specific objective in view , you may find that against expectations a notion that first seemed impossible is actually affordable . |
| 10 | You may note that in Figure 3.24(a) , the order of the tuples in the unnormalised relation is significant . |
| 11 | You may remember that on that occasion the employers took the initiative in tabling a number of remarkable propositions about prices and profits . |
| 12 | You may remember that in the December issue of Woodworker last year I wrote about John Makepeace 's new venture , Hooke Park College . |
| 13 | You may remember that in the Morecambe and Wise show he wrote six plays a day and inflicted parts in them on long suffering celebrity guests ! |
| 14 | You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ . |
| 15 | Early this morning colleagues , you may recall that from the South Western Region came to the rostrum and made a point concerning Black Wednesday . |
| 16 | If she is lucky she may find that at least a few children appreciate that ( 4 ) makes for a better drama game than ( 3 ) , and that ( 1 ) is so bland that it does n't feel like a game at all ! |
| 17 | We may expect that in any event the common law principles of compulsion , and indeed of mistake , will continue to develop in the future . |
| 18 | We may assume that during conditioning associations will be formed between contextual cues and the individual events ( the CS and the US ) that occur in their presence . |
| 19 | Even though we may think that in Britain we have had more than our share of industrial decay and change , the catalogue of proud names that were in the vanguard of German or American industrial might at the turn of the last century is very different from the list of those who are in front today . |
| 20 | ( We may notice that in the Baptism Service there is no suggestion that women are second-class Christians who can not represent Christ . ) |
| 21 | However , we may notice that in all cases with , 4 becomes unbounded as in region II . |
| 22 | Speaking broadly , we may say that in the Roman church it is regarded as presumption , in the Protestant churches it is a privilege or a duty , but in the New Testament it is simply a fact . |
| 23 | And we may concede that in the modern era of capitalism the volume of such personal unproductive consumption has increased greatly , compared with , say , a hundred years ago . |
| 24 | By way of contrast we may note that between 1939 and 1959 , years which saw a major debate and official investigation of the subject , there were only two major books . |
| 25 | These are clearly more formal models than those which the modern letter-writer is used to , yet Shakespeare 's range stretches from the intimate and occasional to just such formal rhetorical structures as Day 's category of the ‘ Epistle Deliberative ’ , which uses a mixture of praise and criticism in its ‘ Hortatory ’ or ‘ Dehortatory ’ intent , and may legitimately subject the recipient to moral pressure : Yet , while acknowledging the relevance of Day 's treatise on letter-writing and its tactics of persuasion , we may note that in Shakespeare one of Day 's categories is absent , namely the ‘ Responsory Epistle ’ , which ‘ dependeth of the partes of a former letter ’ and must refer back to it . |
| 26 | In respect of the Yugoslavs , however , we may note that in his draft telegram shown to Kirk , Robertson had been intending to instruct Eighth Army to " turn over to Yugoslav partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks " . |
| 27 | Returning now to Example 4 , we may note that in simple shear there is a component of that does not vanish . |
| 28 | We may note that in its targeting of a number of these figures , the fabliaux present a morality that does not offer a blanket indulgence to sexual desires ; in some respects fabliau morality is very conventional . |
| 29 | Nor can any general law of ‘ radicalisation as a result of mobilisation ’ be regarded as valid solely on the basis of the war 's impact : we may recall that at the end of the First World War the electorate voted for a substantially Conservative Parliament , albeit under the leadership of Lloyd George , the wartime Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Pulling them together , we may see that in marriage in Britain today , while freedom of choice makes for great potential satisfaction in the marital relationship as such , at the same time it makes for some instability if the satisfactions are not up to expectations . |