Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , this effect may only last for half an hour but , as you have more lessons , these feelings of lightness , balance and general ease within your body will extend for longer and longer periods . |
| 2 | While I appreciate that in many cultures a woman 's failure to marry can have serious socio-economic implications which may not exist for many women in the UK , I was distressed by AI promoting this view of marriage as the raison d'etre of a woman , and of a woman whose hymen has been perforated as ‘ damaged goods ’ . |
| 3 | The DoH may have to redraft the guidelines , and even if the legal difficulties are overcome the guidelines may not appear for another two to three weeks — a frustrating delay for professionals at a time when social worker are increasingly being blamed by the public for failing to control young people in care . |
| 4 | Managers have different talents and abilities , and what may work for one may not work for another . |
| 5 | Physical miracles may not happen for each person but I felt miracles can happen within everyone . |
| 6 | This is another area where liability may not emerge for several years , as in the case of industrial disease . |
| 7 | These results indicate that a pretranslational mechanism contributes to the reduction in ATF1 protein levels observed during differentiation but may not account for all of the reduction . |
| 8 | These may not account for many university graduates ( although relatively more in Scotland ) , but they are rather more important in the polytechnics and colleges , especially in the latter where such multi-subject combined or general degrees are quite common ( outside Scotland ) . |
| 9 | But , even when people have had spells of very bad illness , they may still live for many years and there will be time for them to make good plans for their children . |
| 10 | As an alternative to foreclosure , the court may direct a sale of the property , and this may be fairer to both parties , since any surplus upon such sale will belong to the mortgagor , while the mortgagee may still sue for any deficiency . |
| 11 | Lesbians ' low social profile may partly account for this . |
| 12 | Hibernation mortality may also account for some considerable part of cave bear mortality in European cave sites ( Kurten , 1958 ) . |
| 13 | You may also qualify for some pension from the country you left . |
| 14 | So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , as Table 5.8 shows , employment in primary industry can still account for 12 per cent of all employment in rural areas , and when all the ancillary trades associated with agriculture are counted in , for example , food processing , machinery , and fertilizer and pesticide production , agriculture may well account for some 10 to 15 per cent of all national employment , although there are no accurate figures for this . |
| 16 | Variable patterns of formaldehyde exposure may well account for this inconsistency in relation to other workers in formaldehyde-based industries . |
| 17 | It might also be maintained that the elasticity of the concept of Satya in Indian philosophical thought may well account for these apparent contradictions . |
| 18 | For all that , I conclude that the postulated underlying rules for development may usefully account for some of the variation in human sexual behaviour and possibly even the variation in marriage laws . |