Example sentences of "may simply [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog might not respond readily to their commands , and may simply head off into the distance , possibly looking for you if the territory is familiar . |
| 2 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 3 | In extreme circumstances a minority , and especially a national minority , finding itself in such a position may simply decide to secede and create a society and state in which it forms the majority . |
| 4 | Medium-sized funds may have a small proportion invested in managed funds , with the majority of assets in its direct control , large pension funds are likely to have totally direct control , whilst smaller funds may simply invest in a range of managed policies . |
| 5 | While some checklists may simply identify a list of ‘ useful linguistic skills ’ which may serve as a selection menu with few constraints on the sequence in which separate items are taught , those which are based on a developmental sequence place strong constraints on the selection of teaching objectives . |
| 6 | Tax a multinational more heavily and it may simply shift to a tax-friendlier place . |
| 7 | Workers or management may control some aspect of operations , but the struggle may simply shift to another area . |
| 8 | Since the ban , it appears farmers have been selling their milk to pig farmers , so the problem may simply shift from milk to pork . |
| 9 | Their major worry is that the Pushkin and the Hermitage may simply choose to withdraw the controversial works as a precaution before 12 May , thus wrecking the Pompidou exhibition . |
| 10 | The source of arousal is critical for a number of reasons , in addition to the considerable literature suggesting that arousal is not a unitary physiological dimension , there is the problem that in memory tasks an external source arousal may simply distract subjects while memory for an arousing item itself may be subject to von Restorff effects . |
| 11 | From June to mid-September there is a piano bar , or you may simply prefer to just sit on the terrace with a cocktail at sunset . |
| 12 | The types of jobs provided may simply reinforce the marginal status of many of these workers , that is , maintain them in an essentially peripheral position in society so that their access to economic rewards , dignity , and power remain severely limited ( Scott , 1984 ; Larwood , et al . , |
| 13 | While on his own home ground he knows how to do things , or how to get them done , beyond the boundaries of his home ground he knows , at best , only that he should comply with the rules without necessarily understanding why or precisely what all of the relevant rules are : he may simply go through the motions . |
| 14 | They may simply go ahead and expand credit , and accept a lower liquidity ratio . |
| 15 | So far , this war is more popular than were those in Korea , Suez or the Falklands at the outset — though that may simply reflect the fact that casualties have so far been so light . |
| 16 | But this may simply reflect the tremendous difficulties involved in such trials . |
| 17 | Differences between the two areas may simply reflect the fact that the density of cuckoos relative to that of their hosts is larger at Santa Fe than at Guadix ( Table 1 ) . |
| 18 | Hence the disorder observed within 30pc may simply reflect the increasing importance of individual supernova explosions . |
| 19 | This increase in TDPI may simply reflect the fact that pensioners start from a very low base . |
| 20 | It can refer to the growth of influence of the natural and social sciences as bodies of knowledge which underpin practice in fields such as medicine , pharmacy , agriculture , engineering , architecture or social work ; it can refer to the increased importance of mathematics or computing in some fields ; it can refer to the attempt to develop models or theories of practice itself , for example in the fields of management , nursing or teaching , or it may simply reflect the enlargement of the off-the-job element in professional education . |
| 21 | Users have been conditioned by accountants over many years , so that their expressed needs may simply reflect marginal improvements on what they have already been receiving . |
| 22 | The fact that D'Oyly 's aristocratic informant said that the washermen should be paid for their service with money ( ridi ) may simply reflect the greater social distance which separated the aristocrats from the Hena , or it could be that , at that date , the distinction between commercial and non-commercial economic transactions had not yet become so clear-cut as it is today . |
| 23 | The fact that the tasks as used in Study 3 turned out not to be completely unrelated to risk does not necessarily compromise this result , it may simply reflect the fact that thinking about risk is an extremely natural thing to do in this type of situation . |
| 24 | Just as Goscelin 's statement that Cnut was devoted to St Edith sits somewhat ill with a remarkable tale reported by William of Malmesbury , and may simply reflect what the Wilton nuns wanted people to believe , churchmen writing the histories of their own foundations tended to be prejudiced . |
| 25 | It is possible that the firm may not be interested in maximising profits or sales ( or anything else for that matter ) , but may simply aim to achieve satisfactory or ‘ target ’ levels of profits and sales . |
| 26 | ( e ) shareholders who paid a much higher price for their shares than their current market value may simply react emotionally to an offer which would involve them in a loss . |
| 27 | If the innocent party is the buyer and he has not paid then he may simply refuse to do so and return the goods if he has already received them . |
| 28 | The vendor may simply refuse to consider a retention or deferred payment since after completion it will simply not have the facilities to perform any remaining contractual obligations and vicarious performance by the purchaser is not possible or is inappropriate . |
| 29 | Alternatively , the seller may simply deliver goods together with a delivery note . |
| 30 | In absolute terms this may simply represent trends in a growing economy . |