Example sentences of "[coord] [det] [noun] may [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Any manager will ( with certain limited exceptions ) have power to bind the EEIG vis-à-vis third parties , unless the related contract provides that only two or more managers may so bind it and is gazetted accordingly .
2 Audit and standard setting of measures common to all or most practices may best be designed and supported by a central body with nationwide aegis .
3 Erm , well as long as the child is , is young enough to believe in the bogie man , everything is fine , and that child may well go to bed on time and er , and er , shuts its eyes and goes straight to sleep er in fear .
4 As Massey and Meegan ( 1982 ) have argued , relocation away from intense class struggle is just one option facing employers ; they also contend that consideration of the various options is most likely in periods of recession when profitability is low and some form of restructuring crucial , and that relocation may then be part of a composite strategy involving restructuring of the labour process .
5 But none of these claims has been substantiated and some preparations may actually be dangerous .
6 Burrow systems can be very complicated and some rabbits may never be cornered since they are able to move round and round the burrow systems — staying ahead of the ferret all the time and without the slightest inclination or pressure to leave the burrow .
7 It is common for workers to have difficulty in accepting being in the ‘ client ’ role , and some individuals may misguidedly adopt a facade of untrammelled competence rather than admit needing help from colleagues .
8 Micritic carbonates such as those from mud build-ups and some calcretes may also have cryptic textures which can be revealed by gentle etching with a dilute acid ( e.g. 5% hydrochloric acid ) .
9 Respiratory function is usually decreased by tissue oedema , and some patients may therefore need oxygen therapy .
10 That is £17,000 and this money may well have to come from the sale or re-mortgage of her house , unless you can help .
11 Regular readers of The Artist and this column may sometimes wonder if there is any method in the choice of subjects that I cover .
12 Therefore , both the extent and the functions of green belts may be expected to change in the near future , and this change may also have social implications .
13 He asked me to call again and this invitation may well have been genuine ; my acceptance was not .
14 It would appear that the employer has a predilection for this type of trainee , and this trend may well increase in future years .
15 As SMS Hindenberg went down , the German Ensign was lowered ; and this flag may still be seen in the German Fleet Exhibition in Stromness .
16 There is still a lingering feeling around that if you need this sort of help there has to be something ‘ wrong ’ with you , and this admission may further attack self-esteem and seem therefore to exact too high a price .
17 Therefore there needs to be a period to allow exploration of satisfactory forms of internal work organisation when new technology is introduced , and this period may well need to be longer than that usually allowed for new skills acquisition .
18 Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades .
19 Exposure to teaching by other staff might also increase motivation in those nurses who do not themselves normally participate in teaching , and such improvements may also have financial benefits in the longer term through overall increases in efficiency .
20 Three-mode lasers , especially in folded resonators , are probably more complicated than theorists would wish , but the class of lasers in which chaos of this type may be observed is probably very large , and such experiments may well prove useful in testing the universality of the " universal " routes to chaos .
21 It will self-sow during the season , and such plants may still be flowering in November in mild autumns and sheltered gardens .
22 Price support policies have effects on less-favoured areas and these effects may sometimes be more important than structural policy effects through the LFA Directive .
23 There are obvious limits to the extra work that families can be expected to absorb and these limits may already have been reached .
24 The judicial statistics inevitably provide an incomplete picture since the only information available relates to matters where a writ has been issued and many disputes may already have been settled by then .
25 Most of the ‘ paramedicals ’ are relatively specialised , but a disabled person may have many requirements and many people may therefore be needed to meet them .
26 But that level may never be zero .
27 But that interference may well have kept the review on course , as the clock ticked on and the derision from Labour grew louder .
28 During those talks , Mr Shevardnadze said all military aid to Nicaragua has been frozen since the beginning of the year , but that weapons may still be reaching Nicaragua from Cuba .
29 It is unlikely , but some creditors may yet have to sue for their money .
30 So strong can these commitments become that teachers not only come to feel diffident about teaching and reluctant to teach subjects very different from their own , like religious education or personal and social education , which would be likely to form but a minor part of their timetable commitment , but some teachers may even feel reluctant to teach subjects that would appear to have a fairly close cognate intellectual relationship to their own — as when physicists are asked to teach chemistry or integrated sciences , for instance .
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