Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I may start up a course . |
| 2 | You may print either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mail messages . |
| 3 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
| 4 | You may inspect either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mail messages . |
| 5 | You may copy either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mail messages . |
| 6 | You may delete either a subset or all of your oldest 16 mail messages . |
| 7 | " Well , if you go on like you 're doing now you may live only a few more weeks or months . |
| 8 | You could always cheat a little and use skeletonised leaves for a cream colouring , though if you look carefully through your collection of pressed materials you may find quite a few unusual shades . |
| 9 | Erm and , and I think in a way you y you know you may start the exploration and then that may lead you on to do something else , and , and you may spend actually a bit of time before you actually want to start the training . |
| 10 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 11 | She may change quite a lot , on the surface anyway . |
| 12 | She may take quite a while adding up the wine list . ’ |
| 13 | If medical expenses are being claimed , the estimate should include a provision for these and also any medical fees we may incur e.g. a PMA report or Additional Certificate of Medical Attendant . |
| 14 | So we may put together a future for Mankind brick by brick . |
| 15 | We may see here a way of expressing the double motif of God 's transcendence and immanence discussed above . |
| 16 | When their children go to school , they may take on a morning job in a shop or making school dinners . |
| 17 | When those same pensioners understand that blanket commitments of that type will erode the extra money available to help the poorer end , they may take rather a different view . |
| 18 | Eventually they may take over a small group when the large parent troop undergoes fission as increasing size produces social instability . |
| 19 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 20 | Even if some sounds are similar to some in your own language they still need to be practised , as they may differ just a bit , and that sometimes makes it even harder to get them sound right automatically . |
| 21 | Candidates must demonstrate their ability to use , at an employable level , the skills of audio transcription in a practical office situation : they may use either a typewriter or word processing equipment . |
| 22 | This is primarily an issue of construction but it may involve also a question as to how far , if at all , the powers of the court in respect of litigation costs can curtail a contractual right of recovery . |
| 23 | Olivetti said its use of Alpha would definitely be restricted to the high-end workstation market : it ‘ has other designs ’ when it comes to servers , hinting that it may bring out a product in that area based on the parallel processing technology of Kendall Square Research Corp , the Waltham , Massachusetts-based company in which it has a stake ( see page three ) . |
| 24 | Even then , if a file is very large , it may spread over a number of disks . |
| 25 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 26 | Another disadvantage of this type of competition is that it may look just a little too difficult and thus put off some of the would-be entrants . |
| 27 | In passages which resonate with the spirit of Bagehot , ‘ a man of genius ’ , Dicey argues that the ‘ rule of a party can not be permanently identified with the authority of the nation or with the dictates of patriotism ’ and that ‘ while popular government may be under wise leadership a good machine for simply destroying existing evils , it may turn out a very poor instrument for the construction of new institutions or the realisation of new ideals ’ The limitations in practice of his belief in ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ are finally conceded : |
| 28 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 29 | He may receive quite a lot of bids and will usually accept the highest . |