Example sentences of "[noun sg] may [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Affiliated organisations , Constituency Labour Parties and Commons Members of Parliament may nominate for each of the offices of leader and deputy leader , one Commons Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party attending conference ( unless excused attendance as provided in sub-section ( c ) below ) as a delegate or ex-officio delegate . |
| 2 | In the case of rent and other payments of a periodic nature , the creditor may prove for any amounts due and unpaid up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.112(1) ) . |
| 3 | Such factors as incentives , motivation , perseverance , and the like may account for some of the proportion allocated to education ; and these factors may be partly the effects of education and partly its causes . |
| 4 | Before the swing is even given consideration the search may start for some new equipment ; maybe a driver that hits a high draw from the tee . |
| 5 | This structural and molecular homology may account for many of the functional similarities that exist between IP 3 Rs and RYRs . |
| 6 | An individual 's diet may vary for many reasons and while starvation is unusual in the Western world because of the availability of food , it is still possible for people in the West to suffer from inadequate nutrition . |
| 7 | If at the pre-trial review the defendant does not appear and has not delivered an admission or defence and the plaintiff produces evidence as to the amount of his damages , then judgment may be entered for them ( Ord 17 , r 2(2) ) , but if evidence is not then produced the court may enter a judgment for unliquidated damages and thereafter , unless the court has itself fixed a date for assessment of such damages , the plaintiff may apply for such assessment on seven days ' notice to the defendant ( Ord 22 , r 6(1) ) . |
| 8 | Neither you nor your husband or wife may claim for any lump sum or maintenance payment . |
| 9 | Doubts were expressed about the authorship of the early ‘ St Jerome in the Wilderness ’ from São Paulo although the poor condition of the surface may account for some of the picture 's awkwardness . |
| 10 | By s 9(1) of the Housing Act 1988 , the court may adjourn for such period as it thinks fit , proceedings for possession of assured tenancies , and may stay , suspend , or postpone a claim for possession — but an order for possession must not in general be postponed to a date later than fourteen days from judgment , unless this would cause exceptional hardship , when up to six weeks may be allowed ( s 89(1) of the Houseing Act 1980 ) ; the maximum of 14 days is subject to important qualifications ( s 89(2) ) examples of which are those cases under the Rent Act 1977 where the court may only order possession if reasonable , possession actions by mortgagees when the period is 28 days , and by lessors for forfeiture for non-payment of rent , when any order for possession must be for not less than four weeks ( s 138(3) of the 1984 Act ) . |
| 11 | Where the applicant has failed to attend a previous hearing the court may refuse to hear his renewed application until he has paid the previous costs thrown away , which the court may assess for that purpose ( Thames Investments & Securities plc v Benjamin [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1381 ) . |
| 12 | That person may sue for any trespass committed since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 13 | As the severity of Crohn 's disease and linear growth velocity during the first two years of follow up among males and females were comparable , it is possible that varying demands on growth during normal puberty may account for these differences . |
| 14 | The theory that amplexus is a form of ‘ mate guarding ’ by males , preventing others from mating with the same female , is confirmed by comparing the duration of amplexus in explosive breeding European common frog , only one out Among explosive breeders , competition between males for females is intense and amplexus may last for several days or even for the entire breeding period . |
| 15 | While this method may work for some differences , it will not be sufficient to account for major variations in a word 's pronunciation such as the — and , or for — and . |
| 16 | Because , for reasons mentioned earlier , the itching may persist for some time , an just in case the first application was not exhaustive , it is quite common to advise a second treatment one week after the first . |
| 17 | Although the clinical signs are abating the bronchi are still inflamed and residual lesions such as bronchial and peribronchial fibrosis may persist for several weeks or months . |
| 18 | Open communication may work for some , but Charlotte found it too destructively honest . |
| 19 | Ethnicity is not , however , always marked by linguistic distinctiveness , Labov 's work with Italian and Jewish speakers in New York City shows that such distinctiveness may persist for several generations , or conversely may disappear with the first generation of native-born speakers who nevertheless maintain a strong sense of ethnicity ( Labov 1972b : 281 ) . |
| 20 | Solution compaction between grains reduces the effective intergranular porosity within a grainy sediment ( Fig. 5.19b ) and is therefore important in reservoir evaluation ; in some cases solution compaction may account for most of the overall porosity reduction . |
| 21 | Excessive amounts of hydrogen cations introduced into the soil by acid precipitation may exchange for these heavy-metal cations , thereby releasing the metals into the soil and into watercourses ( Babich et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | One sibling may care for another , or there may be a three-pension household . |