Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French national policy of encouraging younger people into farming may slowly lead to changing attitudes as older , more traditional ways fade . |
| 2 | Its heart beat may speed up or become weak , its breathing heavy and laboured , and it may eventually go into convulsions or start bleeding . |
| 3 | Those unable to get to Salzburg — where an estimated 300,000 Japanese will be bound this year — may eventually listen to Mr Saegusa 's mélange in the Wave , a glossy modern building in the fashionable Roppongi district of Tokyo . |
| 4 | If the unfallen state is being pushed further and further out of sight , it may eventually vanish into unreality . |
| 5 | If au else fails , a sector which is being undermined by imports may successfully apply for exemption from restrictions on the formation of a cartel to enable the decline of the sector to proceed in an orderly manner . |
| 6 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 7 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 8 | Very often the vagina and part of the uterus can be separated into two parts by a fibrous partition and this may only come to light after difficulty when intercourse first takes place , or sometimes at the onset of pregnancy . |
| 9 | Platt was left out of Juventus 's opening match last Sunday and has been told he may only play in Juventus ' home game . |
| 10 | This may only cease on withdrawal of the drug . |
| 11 | Corporate members may only participate in elections of that branch to which they are attached . |
| 12 | ‘ And that you may better call to God for Repentance , and find Mercy , and do good Works , the Officer of Eskdale-Side shall blow his Horn Out on you , Out on you , for the heinous crime of you . ’ |
| 13 | The last word on the relationship between his literary mode and that of realism may perhaps go to Professor Frank Kermode , who wrote : |
| 14 | ( 3 ) On the other hand , if the buyer says nothing about his future intentions this may merely serve to fuel rumours that a full bid is to be expected . |
| 15 | Recent moves to establish a world standard in memory cards suggest that this kind of publishing may soon extend to desktop computers of all kinds as well as handheld reference devices . |
| 16 | The same may soon happen in America : on Marlboro Friday , the country 's biggest retailer , Wal-Mart , launched its second own-label line , Great Value . |
| 17 | Even receptors not usually coupled to phospholipase C may thus interact through G protein βγ subunits with this effector enzyme under certain circumstances , for example in cells expressing PLCs highly sensitive to βγ stimulation such as PLC- β2 . |
| 18 | Two observations suggest that CBP100 may functionally interact with CREB . |
| 19 | In summary the specificity of the P100/CREB interaction together with the reduction in detectable P100 following differentiation suggests that P100 may functionally interact with CREB during differentiation of F9 cells . |
| 20 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 21 | Now , the directorate 's chief , Helge Vikan , claims wolves are increasing , that they total 18 animals , and that a viable , breeding population may already exist near Vegarshei . |
| 22 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 23 | Does this mean that if there is clear evidence that the goods were stolen by P from X ( who has since disappeared ) P may nevertheless recover from D , who converted them ? |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously I have a lot more information on some than others , who may just appear as names and addresses . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is our purpose to keep a channel open by which we may still talk with Glendower . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It is our view that where a person indicates that he will contest the allegation that [ section 7(5) ] ( a ) or ( b ) applies , a court may still remand in custody ( or grant bail ) pending trial of that issue ; the statement of the arresting constable 's ‘ reasonable grounds ’ may form the basis of the opinion of the justice of the peace . |
| 27 | However much you have been told , you may still come across problems when you first join a Home . |
| 28 | Jim 's sisters are Sarah Knaggs , who moved to Skelton , and Lizzie Ann Hillary , who may still live in Darlington . |
| 29 | In enclosed basins water-loading by lakes may further contribute to subsidence , though their effect will be far more ephemeral than sediment loading as they are likely to undergo repeated phases of growth and desiccation due to changes in climate . |
| 30 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |