Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers of these pages may feel curious as to how I combined my religious convictions and duties with those of the Director of Public Relations . |
| 2 | This means that on the surface the transactions may appear complementary but below the surface the rules of the particular game provide a hidden agenda ( see page 85 ) . |
| 3 | And what Mao is saying is quotes such talk may sound plausible but in fact it 's wrong . |
| 4 | So , although the gap between rich and poor in Babergh may look wider than in most parts of the country , the distribution of wealth was complex . |
| 5 | An elderly person may become frail because of the combination of illnesses or disabilities . |
| 6 | It may seem odd that during a period of so much innovation and advancement in photographic technology that a film developer formulated in 1891 should still be so popular today over 100 years on . |
| 7 | I need to be able to read outputs of a maximum of 100A ( this may seem high but in my work you come across this sort of output ) . |
| 8 | The Japanese have a habit of scheduling their ‘ breakthroughs ’ in advance , which may seem silly but in practice generally works . |
| 9 | At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 . |
| 10 | For the more complex general case of the analogous time-dependent form may prove unwieldy and in any case involves much deeper consideration of non-equilibrium thermodynamics . |
| 11 | The achievement of a predetermined budgetary target may prove difficult because of the uncertainties involved in economic forecasting . |