Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [noun prp] may [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Simon 's own globe-trotting in Australia , Indonesia and Thailand may have spurred his sister to quit her job in a London pizza restaurant and follow in his footsteps .
2 Jordan , Turkey , Afghanistan and Ethiopia may have been affected also .
3 Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election .
4 The Mercedes and Bentley may have been the show stars ; elsewhere , though , son of beach buggy was making a comeback .
5 There is , however , a problem : the judgment of the republics of , for example , Byelorussia , Ukraine and Kazakhstan may alter if the Republic of Russia chooses to remain a nuclear state .
6 In this tree Jane and Frank may access each other 's modules , but Frank and Bill may not .
7 Both Pyro and Nancy may have a claim in negligence for their injuries under the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson .
8 Babies Gemma and Carla-Marie may have been switched during a fire alert at the Princess Anne maternity hospital in Southampton .
9 Certainly the Letter of 1027 is a reminder that the sentiments found in the works of Wulfstan and Ælfric may have been shared by other churchmen whose writings ( if they ever existed ) have not survived .
10 Some other records between November and February may refer to wintering rather than wandering birds , but otherwise all reports were of birds apparently passing through .
11 The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well .
12 Coleridge and Southey may have crossed the River Parrett at Bridgwater in order to reach Shurton ; more probably , like Thomas De Quincey thirteen years later , they decided to shorten the journey by using the river ferry at Combwich Reach .
13 In Britain , Frilford and Woodeaton may mark the boundary between the Catuvellauni and Dobunni , Harlow between the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni , and Brigstock between the Corieltavi and Catuvellauni .
14 Mike Fesemeyer , John Tyce , Robert Haim and Trevor May reckon two shares to buy if Labour wins on Thursday are Willis Corroon and Standard Chartered .
15 In conclusion , the nativistic position presented by McNeill and Chomsky may have overestimated the contribution to language learning which must be ascribed to innate knowledge and underrepresented the part played by child-environment interactions .
16 But the jubilation in Kerak and Madaba may have led him to overestimate his popular support in the area where he has traditionally drawn his loyal troops .
17 WHAT Saturn glues together , Pluto and Uranus may attempt to sunder — in other words , as much as one situation refuses to budge another is set for blast off .
18 Marx and Engels may have predicted in The Communist Manifesto that capitalism would abolish the particularities of nations and make outdated narrow national consciousness .
19 While such considerations as those outlined by Helm and Smith may amend the prescriptions of basic fiscal federalism theory , it is a matter of concern when some of the staple prescriptions are flaunted .
20 Western Europe and Japan may find it politically difficult to finance and support Anglo-American interventionism in the future .
21 The complaints of the Forum nations centred on fears that the coral atolls at Mururoa and Fangataufa may break up and leak radioactive contamination .
22 If their Mum does have HC , Peter and Paul may get it later on .
23 A quarter of a million are expected in the next ten to twelve days , and the overall total of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait may amount to a full million .
24 UNITED STATES officials are still investigating the possibility that Iran and Syria may have been involved in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing , along with Libya , a senior US counter-terrorism specialist said on yesterday .
25 A controversial survey done by astronomers at Durham and London may provide yet more evidence against it .
26 DIY enthusiasts in Bramshott and Liphook may find a bargain or two going for free is they are quick and have transport .
27 The proclaimed ‘ non-alignment ’ of Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos may have been reassuring to a certain extent to the non-communist five , but neutralisation as a strategic concept had been anchored on the assumption that the Indo-Chinese war would end with the survival of non-communist , neutral regimes in South Vietnam , Kampuchea and Laos and that the overall balance of forces in Southeast Asia would remain decisively in favour of the non-communist states .
28 Rumours are circulating among the ‘ Highgrove Set ’ — the circle of Gloucestershire landowners who mix with the royals — that Charles and Camilla may have met briefly at a hunt a week ago .
29 Isaac and Samuel may have been rabbinical teachers themselves , as well as patrons of other teachers .
30 So sulphur oxides emitted from English power stations may fall as acid rain in Norway and emissions from Poland and Holland may contribute to the haze seen on fine summer days inn England .
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