Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hunt with a camera , to capture images of animals that may become extinct in Indochina if hunting is not either strictly controlled or stopped . |
| 2 | Crudely speaking , this is the principle behind a breed of microscopes that may turn out to have as much impact on the microchip-production line as they have already had in the laboratory . |
| 3 | This is not good practice as it leads to confusion amongst users with an increased possibility of errors that may lead to the very problem the procedure was trying to avoid . |
| 4 | We mourn the loss of the person who died and we respond to the change that this effects in our lives with panic or elation or anxiety or a whole gamut of emotions that may take us by surprise . |
| 5 | Examples of emotions that may need to be expressed are : |
| 6 | Such children will have passed along a string of carers and may have been physically and sexually abused . |
| 7 | ‘ It puts an extra strain on your entire body , ’ points out Heartwatch co-ordinator Andrew Smart , ‘ causing damage to joints and increasing the chances of illnesses that may lead to heart attacks or strokes or diabetes . ’ |
| 8 | Election ‘ 92 : Tories have won battle of ideas but may lose on the hustings |
| 9 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 10 | The millimetre to centimetre scale alternations , which record periods of more or less intense upwelling , represent time scales of several years to several tens of years and may represent a response to some internal oscillations of the equatorial Pacific such as El Nino . |
| 11 | It would certainly be easier to mitigate the effects of such a drought if long-range forecasting could be made more effective , and although there is as yet no secure basis for the kind of forecasting required , an analysis of the causes of the latest drought offers some hope of explanations that may have predictive value in future . |
| 12 | This makes it important for the designer of the effluent plant to have know-ledge of the textile methods and for him to be informed of changes that may occur . |
| 13 | Closer examination of these studies shows a number of features that may help in the clinical management of these patients . |
| 14 | There is one further set of theories that may provide a structure for the study of reading behaviour : the theories of play . |
| 15 | Examples of the sorts of situations that may arise include : |
| 16 | This need to deal with a tricky political environment has often led to managerial centralization of decisions that may have political overtones , and a consensual style of leadership based around committee structures ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 17 | But this piece looks like a member of a family of rogue ‘ roaming ’ elements called transposons that can move in and out of genes and may provide fundamental insights into gene functions . |
| 18 | The five stories which catch our eye will win the author a pair of tickets and may appear in the magazine in future months . |
| 19 | some people are more vulnerable than others to the harmful effects of solvents and may suffer lasting damage . |
| 20 | To contribute to the development of richer economic theories that take simultaneous account of a number of issues that may arise in particular contexts . |
| 21 | His apprehensions are fuelled by a crop of injuries that may deprive him of Paul McGrath ( hamstring ) , Kevin Moran ( bruised back ) and Steve Staunton ( ankle ) . |
| 22 | By now you will no doubt have mastered the method of crossing the sets of stitches and may feel like adding more cables to a garment . |
| 23 | er of others that may benefit from this but only if and we er you find this of particular benefit , er to yourself . |
| 24 | Sadistic people derive perverse pleasure from the suffering of others and may seek out situations in which they can inflict this . |
| 25 | Cabbage , potatoes and onions are examples of crops that may leave diseases in the soil . |
| 26 | This is a complex series of events that may involve various altered cellular properties , such as secretion of proteolytic enzymes , alterations in cell motility , and altered growth properties , as well as possible changes in adhesiveness . |
| 27 | However , even though the unexpected is likely to happen , the APT maintains that it is possible for investors to estimate the sensitivity of assets to the likely variety of events that may take place . |
| 28 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |