Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] may [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental management methods usually require a large workforce , are costly and are generally feasible only in townships and major commercial undertakings vital to the country 's economy , where they may prove more economical in the long run than the recurrent use of insecticides . |
| 2 | When John Nobles , a kersey clothier in the West Riding parish of Kirkburton , made his will in 1715 he directed his supervisors to ‘ chuse such a master for my son where he may learn both the clothier trade and husbandry ’ when he reached the age of 14 . |
| 3 | Of course she does n't know what my life was like for six years or so , although I may get round to telling her , in time . |
| 4 | Tell me that , so I may hope still to find , one day , a man of pure heart . |
| 5 | Right okay what I this will be the first time I 've had a look at er a little bit more of your background so erm while I 'm doing that , although you may have already inside information , I I guess you 'd seen the brochure before had you ? |
| 6 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 7 | Under her various names of Diana , Artemis , Selene , Cynthia , Luna , she is the goddess with the silver crescent on her brow who keeps the shepherd boy Endymion in eternal slumber so she may gaze forever on his lovely face . |
| 8 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 9 | If you will not come to us I am resolved to bring Oreste to you by and by so you may see how he progresses which I hope will be as well as when he was under your care . |
| 10 | This is courtesy of the Press Association so you may have already read this in your papers . |
| 11 | As a result , the blood is deprived of much of the oxygen it needs to feed the body tissues , so we may end up feeling listless or suffer vagueness of thought . |
| 12 | In the simplest possible photoionization event the whole of the photon energy is transferred to the electron , so we may write where hν is the energy of the incident photon , BE is the binding energy of the ejected electron and KE is its kinetic energy . |
| 13 | Anti-entrepreneurial attitudes must be distinguished from anti-industrial ones ; although they may go together , they need not . |
| 14 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 15 | Unauthorised trusts are prevented from advertising units for sale to the general public although they may write privately inviting subscriptions from a very limited range of institutions . |
| 16 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 17 | ‘ So they may see how you are . ’ |
| 18 | Studies such as these show that the workplace , although it may present relatively few opportunities for ‘ escape ’ is also a context within which personal identity and social esteem are formed . |
| 19 | Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’ |
| 20 | Although it may appear otherwise , such behaviour requires no conscious decision making by the ant . |
| 21 | Although it may have also been one of the last , desperate attempts to keep the road open to a negotiated settlement , Ho was being accused by the French , who compared the diplomatic assurances in Paris with continuing violence in Vietnam , of duplicity ; and , ominously , by the intransigents in Hanoi , of treachery . |
| 22 | Sir I commend to you the expert evidence relating to the historic character and I hope sir when you visit this site , although it may look very different at this moment from the way it would have done had you been able to visit it after the originally scheduled date of this enquiry , when the daffodils were out , |
| 23 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 24 | Although it may seem utterly unlikely , sometimes one can ‘ make fiends ’ with tinnitus . |
| 25 | The pay-off in the long term is probably bad , although it may seem quite good in the short term . |
| 26 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 27 | Although it may fill both our physical and mental viewing frames , we remain detached from it and have not entered the cluster . |
| 28 | Drawn into the complex political world of the 490s he showed an interest in the arianism of his fellow monarchs , as well as in the catholicism of Chlothild , and some members of his court were actually baptized as arians ; he himself , although he may have already been converted to Christianity , did not commit himself firmly either to catholicism or arianism , although he certainly showed an interest in the views of the heretics . |
| 29 | ‘ But although he may seem quite well he 's still to be handled with care . |
| 30 | I , I , I , if I may go on an and er make some other comments on it i is that appropriate or should I wait for that are we still talking about the by-pass ? |