Example sentences of "and [det] [noun] may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , well as long as the child is , is young enough to believe in the bogie man , everything is fine , and that child may well go to bed on time and er , and er , shuts its eyes and goes straight to sleep er in fear . |
| 2 | As Massey and Meegan ( 1982 ) have argued , relocation away from intense class struggle is just one option facing employers ; they also contend that consideration of the various options is most likely in periods of recession when profitability is low and some form of restructuring crucial , and that relocation may then be part of a composite strategy involving restructuring of the labour process . |
| 3 | But none of these claims has been substantiated and some preparations may actually be dangerous . |
| 4 | Burrow systems can be very complicated and some rabbits may never be cornered since they are able to move round and round the burrow systems — staying ahead of the ferret all the time and without the slightest inclination or pressure to leave the burrow . |
| 5 | It is common for workers to have difficulty in accepting being in the ‘ client ’ role , and some individuals may misguidedly adopt a facade of untrammelled competence rather than admit needing help from colleagues . |
| 6 | Micritic carbonates such as those from mud build-ups and some calcretes may also have cryptic textures which can be revealed by gentle etching with a dilute acid ( e.g. 5% hydrochloric acid ) . |
| 7 | Respiratory function is usually decreased by tissue oedema , and some patients may therefore need oxygen therapy . |
| 8 | That is £17,000 and this money may well have to come from the sale or re-mortgage of her house , unless you can help . |
| 9 | Regular readers of The Artist and this column may sometimes wonder if there is any method in the choice of subjects that I cover . |
| 10 | Therefore , both the extent and the functions of green belts may be expected to change in the near future , and this change may also have social implications . |
| 11 | He asked me to call again and this invitation may well have been genuine ; my acceptance was not . |
| 12 | It would appear that the employer has a predilection for this type of trainee , and this trend may well increase in future years . |
| 13 | As SMS Hindenberg went down , the German Ensign was lowered ; and this flag may still be seen in the German Fleet Exhibition in Stromness . |
| 14 | There is still a lingering feeling around that if you need this sort of help there has to be something ‘ wrong ’ with you , and this admission may further attack self-esteem and seem therefore to exact too high a price . |
| 15 | Therefore there needs to be a period to allow exploration of satisfactory forms of internal work organisation when new technology is introduced , and this period may well need to be longer than that usually allowed for new skills acquisition . |
| 16 | Success in biomedical careers has long been associated with authorship of publications in peer reviewed journals , and this association may partly explain the exponential increase in the number of articles published over the past two decades . |
| 17 | Exposure to teaching by other staff might also increase motivation in those nurses who do not themselves normally participate in teaching , and such improvements may also have financial benefits in the longer term through overall increases in efficiency . |
| 18 | Three-mode lasers , especially in folded resonators , are probably more complicated than theorists would wish , but the class of lasers in which chaos of this type may be observed is probably very large , and such experiments may well prove useful in testing the universality of the " universal " routes to chaos . |
| 19 | It will self-sow during the season , and such plants may still be flowering in November in mild autumns and sheltered gardens . |
| 20 | Price support policies have effects on less-favoured areas and these effects may sometimes be more important than structural policy effects through the LFA Directive . |
| 21 | There are obvious limits to the extra work that families can be expected to absorb and these limits may already have been reached . |
| 22 | The judicial statistics inevitably provide an incomplete picture since the only information available relates to matters where a writ has been issued and many disputes may already have been settled by then . |
| 23 | Most of the ‘ paramedicals ’ are relatively specialised , but a disabled person may have many requirements and many people may therefore be needed to meet them . |