Example sentences of "[conj] [that] it may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show me any homebuilder who ca n't say the same thing about his project , but the finish-it-in-thirty-days-using-only-domestic-handtools ! brochures never tell you that , nor that it may take you weeks just to create the right kind of workplace in which to build your masterpiece . |
| 2 | But uncontrollable impulse , caused by mental defect , is not at present accepted as exempting from criminal liability , except that it may serve to reduce murder to manslaughter ( see pp. 167–8 ) . |
| 3 | A walk is like a path , except that it may cross itself : ( a b c b … a d e ) |
| 4 | Neither of these situations is in itself damaging , except that it may produce a denial of the actual preferred functioning of the child . |
| 5 | It follows from the First Premise introduced at the beginning of this chapter , that it must be an article of belief in the Created God that this first pre-life period in the story of the universe made no contribution to the creation of the God which was to be born , as was mankind , out of the life to come , except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 6 | The origin of that primitive ‘ desire ’ is in all probability the same as the unknown origin of life , which in this book is relegated to that first pre-life period which made no contribution to the Created God except that it may have been the source of the basic origin of life . |
| 7 | These indicate that time itself had a beginning about fifteen billion years ago and that it may come to an end at some point in the future . |
| 8 | I understand that the Lancashire section of the review of local government is to take place later this year and that it may include the consideration of changes to local government boundaries in this area . |
| 9 | And that it may have practical applications . |
| 10 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 11 | Who knows but that it may look very different to bigger , different beings ? |
| 12 | It is likely , in general , that advertising can build on the strengths , but that it may need improvements to the physical product to eliminate the weaknesses . |