Example sentences of "you may [vb infin] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may think that in a democracy you too can flick idly through ice-screws and ropes , but the moment you prod anything with an inquisitive finger , an assistant will leap on you with a quiz as to your standard of rock-climbing . |
| 2 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |
| 3 | When you first trot these out , you may find that to your ears they sound artificial and contrived . |
| 4 | You may find that with judicious use of available cash you 're not quite as badly off as you feared . |
| 5 | Also , you may find that in taking this concrete approach , you are making your nouns work harder for you and using fewer adjectives . |
| 6 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ said Owen , ‘ I think you may find that in future that party is not quite as strong as it has been . ’ |
| 7 | As a general point , however , if you plan your finances with a specific objective in view , you may find that against expectations a notion that first seemed impossible is actually affordable . |
| 8 | You may note that in Figure 3.24(a) , the order of the tuples in the unnormalised relation is significant . |
| 9 | You may remember that on that occasion the employers took the initiative in tabling a number of remarkable propositions about prices and profits . |
| 10 | You may remember that in the December issue of Woodworker last year I wrote about John Makepeace 's new venture , Hooke Park College . |
| 11 | You may remember that in the Morecambe and Wise show he wrote six plays a day and inflicted parts in them on long suffering celebrity guests ! |
| 12 | You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ . |
| 13 | Early this morning colleagues , you may recall that from the South Western Region came to the rostrum and made a point concerning Black Wednesday . |