Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me pick out three aspects that may help to guide us . |
| 2 | It will run initially for three months but may become permanent if it seems to fulfil a need . |
| 3 | Describe the nature of qualitative factors and give three examples that may influence a decision to make a component rather than buy it from another firm . |
| 4 | But the investment company collapsed , and now Mr Woodward and his wife owe sixty thousand pounds and may loose their house . |
| 5 | And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades , vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado : the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long , suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall , weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length . |
| 6 | TABLE 3 SUBSTANCES THAT MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS IN CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY |
| 7 | It is only those schools that have been predominantly academic , and independent schools which have seldom tangled with CSE or Mode 3 levels that may find it new . |
| 8 | Articles have fewer than 50 references and may contain a few short subheadings . |
| 9 | Thus , overall level of national development of degree of urbanization may influence the relationship of mother 's residence to levels of health and mortality among infants and children below the age of five years and may account , in part , for some differences in patterns among countries that are noted below . |
| 10 | Ramapithecus lasted for about 7 million years and may have then given rise to the first true hominid , Australopithecus , which has a similar dental structure . |
| 11 | There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty . |
| 12 | In managing their portfolios , the commercial banks have two aims that may conflict : first , they wish to maintain an adequate stock of liquid assets in case their cash reserves ratio comes under pressure ; secondly , they wish to earn a high rate of return on their assets in order to maximise their profits . |
| 13 | The MEC usually meets for 1½–2 hrs and may discuss or note changes to around 50 student cases . |
| 14 | Amongst smaller introduced animals are fire ants , which out-compete with the native ants ( and which can cause uncomfortable nights for camping scientists ) ; and cockroaches , which have been discovered on one or two islands and may have been transported inadvertently amongst supplies destined for scientists doing long-term research . |
| 15 | I note you 've got a site inspection on the hockey club room but not for the eighty seven houses that may affect for generations , I E . |