Example sentences of "and [pron] may [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous . |
| 2 | Discoveries in the latter , along the ridge of gravel between the Thames and the Cherwell during the course of building work , indicate a spread of occupation of possibly 100 acres and which may extend even further to the north and west . |
| 3 | Helpers approaching have sometimes been bitten or attacked wildly in the delirium that follows and which may last as long as twelve tormented hours . |
| 4 | There will , however , be longer-term consequences which flow from those dramatic weeks , which are still working themselves out and which may prove more serious . |
| 5 | The anti-realist does not believe in the existence of this further ‘ real ’ world which lies behind the world that we know and which may come apart from our world in ways which of course we could not recognize if they occurred . |
| 6 | The minimum investment is £2,500 and you may deposit up to £25,000 . |
| 7 | In practice , opponents are less likely to double your rescue contract , and you may wriggle out of trouble . |
| 8 | You may be able to solve the problem by introducing one or more Regal Tangs to give some sense of security in numbers , but there is no guarantee of this and you may end up with three nervous fish instead of one . |
| 9 | December 7 , 1786 : I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan , and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin 's and Aberdeen Almanacks , along with the black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge . |
| 10 | Other people will be making changes today , and you may feel out feel put out if you have not been consulted well that should be your stars . |
| 11 | We shall shortly tie up at Le Havre and you may go ashore independently . |
| 12 | Leave it too late and you may climb dangerously unprotected . |
| 13 | Personally my advice is as in the diagram above and the box — though when all is said and done , it 's common sense , and you may know better . |
| 14 | ‘ You may be right , and you may get away with it . |
| 15 | Erm and , and I think in a way you y you know you may start the exploration and then that may lead you on to do something else , and , and you may spend actually a bit of time before you actually want to start the training . |
| 16 | And you may say well why do I have two pairs of fins , you know , one in front and one behind , instead of , say , three pairs of fins , or one pair of fins , or eight pairs of fins — why do we all have two ? |
| 17 | You can make a dozen appointments that were advertising and you may come out with one deal . |
| 18 | These are the sort of men whose confidence may have suffered and who may come forward . |
| 19 | And we may refer again to the CDA 's first Annual Report . |
| 20 | We must and we may share forever forever he turned to God , our to he . |
| 21 | Clearly , the earlier the better , but here the problem is that recovery itself follows a " wavy path " and one may rush in inappropriately and cause justifiable upset . |
| 22 | Through ethnographic research set in Albany , New York , a team of anthropologists from Queen 's University , Belfast , will investigate the range of beliefs and practices connected with Ireland that are current among Albany 's Irish-American population ; how Ireland and ‘ being Irish ’ in America are represented in everyday life , how they are distributed over the generations , and they may vary along socio-economic dimensions . |
| 23 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 24 | ‘ I can sketch 100 different hats on the spot and they may choose just 10 . |
| 25 | States parties may accede separately tot he convention and to the jurisdiction of the Commission and the Court , and they may do so not permanently but for a specific term on the expiry of which the accession will end . |
| 26 | There is no reason to believe that diabetic patients fare better and they may do less well . |
| 27 | The colours wo n't be seen again and they may end up in a museum . ’ |
| 28 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 29 | As a rule the victim is an insect , but certain large centipedes — and they may measure up to 30 cm ( 12 in ) long — have been seen to capture toads and mice . |
| 30 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |