Example sentences of "[subord] they may [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left : Most wide waterway craft were built with a more spacious cabin and many boatmen lived on board although they may also have kept a house on shore . |
| 2 | Periodic tenancies , although they may ultimately exceed three years , are also covered by this section and may take effect orally : Kushner v Law Society [ 1952 ] 1 KB 264 . |
| 3 | Despite their transboundary effects , however , these problems are not necessarily global in impact , although they may ultimately require global solutions . |
| 4 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 5 | Some patients are helped by knowing this is available although they may never use it . |
| 6 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 7 | Excitable children can have a similar effect , and so they may also have to be shown how to behave towards a puppy . |
| 8 | The corporations are also the development-control authority for the designated area , so they may thus determine planning applications made to them or deem themselves planning permission by resolution . |
| 9 | Also known as WHITE LADIES they dress in pure white and live by streams , so they may meticulously rinse their gowns clean every evening . |
| 10 | Putting the principles above into an analytical and practical context is difficult , not least because they may well conflict with each other . |
| 11 | First , planners are often blamed , because they may frequently specify the styles and building materials with which new houses should be built , ‘ in keeping ’ with existing structures ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 ) . |
| 12 | On retirement their savings and pension enable them to buy their own flat or cottage ; but because they may never have cooked more than a snack for themselves or lived alone , the adjustment to this different way of life can be hard to make . |
| 13 | However , the falsificationist maintains that some theories , while they may superficially appear to have the characteristics of good scientific theories , are in fact only posing as scientific theories because they are not falsifiable and should be rejected . |
| 14 | Some urban families do still look back to their rural roots ; while they may never have lived in the areas from which their ancestors originally came , they may make regular visits to the furusato and bring up their children to do likewise . |
| 15 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 16 | Capital projects such as roads fall into an intermediate category ; while they may usually have few , if any , direct implications , roads are frequently used in the UK 's LFAs to gain access to more remote uplands with a view to future moorland/ rough grassland conversions . |
| 17 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 18 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | The media ( at least in those countries where media , and particularly television , play a major role ) are an important factor in upholding the patriarchal myth , even though they may subtly shift their ground here and there . |
| 20 | Rather , people fear and stigmatise fairly specific things , people and conditions , even though they may admittedly know very little about them . |
| 21 | Government expenditure also encourages consumption and hence economic growth even though they may also have detrimental effects if they exceed certain high levels — a claim that will be discussed in the following chapter . |
| 22 | It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter . |
| 23 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 24 | Renters are not ‘ down-and-outs ’ , but those who do not yet have the opportunity to own a home , though they may well do so in later life . |
| 25 | The argument here is not that the group shares a common material objective interest which unites them , though they may well do so ; such an argument , if framed in a strict manner , might take elite theorists perilously close to Marxist positions , in which the material interests related to the appropriate mode of production specify the class . |
| 26 | Er do you want to go back and work for them , is that the m the main thing so you 've got your job back , cos if you claim compensation th the basic award is equivalent to redundancy which it sound as though they may well pay about of half that to you . |
| 27 | Period rooms in a museum are usually reconstructions and interpretations of the past , though they may well contain primary source material , the furniture and genuine artefacts from the past , and an assortment of objects which may well belong to the same period but which come from many different sources . |
| 28 | The agency probably has not discussed the commercial with a production company , though they may well know which company they would like to use , and have a reasonable idea of the likely cost . |
| 29 | The procuticle is usually pierced by very numerous pore-canals which run perpendicularly to its surface and are initially occupied by cytoplasmic filaments from the epidermis , though they may later become filled with cuticular material . |
| 30 | Other ad hoc groups beyond the reach of the MISC series can have a considerable impact , even though they may only meet once or twice . |