Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [art] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients with coeliac disease or Crohn 's disease have an abnormally alkaline jejunal microenvironment , which may explain the frequently observed malabsorption of folic acid and other nutrients in these patients . |
| 2 | Try to remain aware of the factors which may make a newly admitted patient anxious . |
| 3 | Sherfey suggests that ‘ women may possess a biologically determined , inordinately high , cyclic sexual drive ’ ( 1970 : 251 ) whose suppression is the condition for western social organization . |
| 4 | This contrast may be more apparent than real , however , for new technologies of birth and reproduction may alter the biologically given so as to make possible a changed perspective that would have been inconceivable in the past . |
| 5 | A typical pack will have a capacity of 500 mAH which , in a collective pitch model employing five servos and a gyro , may have a fully charged life of only 20–25 minutes and certainly no more than 1 hour . |
| 6 | A hastily put together collection of components booklets may indicate a hastily put together machine . |
| 7 | Documentation that describes the system from a technical point of view may indicate a technically orientated supplier who may find it difficult to appreciate the needs of his users . |
| 8 | My example may seem a little strained and artificial , but it is , I submit a more realistic representation of the process of sedimentation ( in the sense of accumulation ) than the " gentle rain from heaven " tacitly accepted by most of us . |
| 9 | The Act thus provides that an adult may execute a duly witnessed ‘ directive ’ in a form laid down , ‘ directing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures ’ . |
| 10 | Presidential spokesman George Stephanopolous said the President may visit the hardest hit areas . |
| 11 | The previous two paragraphs may cause the non-mathematically minded to mutter the old adage about there being lies , damned lies , and statistics . |