Example sentences of "some [prep] [pron] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 2 | It is not surprising that many people , some of whom may have seen the equity in their homes rise tenfold , should decide to spend more . |
| 3 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 4 | A group of urban poor , some of whom may be recent migrants , driven by the insanitary conditions , high rents and overcrowding of the slum areas , squat on a piece of unused land , and hastily erect a temporary shack . |
| 5 | Previously surrounded by school mates and push-bikes , he is now surrounded by the clinical smell of the hospital and the sight of other sick children , some of whom may be minus their hair . |
| 6 | Performing King Lear in the round meant making eye-contact with members of the audience , some of whom may have really been embroiled in mayhem the actors were merely playing at . |
| 7 | many white athletes , some of whom may themselves be of exceptional athletic potential , believe blacks to be innately superior as athletes . |
| 8 | Similar attitudes of troops of occupation of all ages and in all places , from South America to India , help us understand the revulsion now felt by many Britons , some of whom may have been sympathetic to Rome and hopeful of recognition of their natural rights and dignity . |
| 9 | He was survived by his widow and seven sons and five daughters , some of whom may have been from his previous marriage . |
| 10 | For Approved Social Workers who may well be consulted under the s.58 ( consent to treatment ) provision of the Mental Health Act , clozapine presents a number of ethical issues , including , most importantly , the forcible treatment of patients with the drug , some of whom may also be forced to give blood against their will , in a stretching of common law interpretations relating to non psychiatric medical interventions . |
| 11 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 12 | If we are acting for a group of shareholders , some of whom may not be Corporate Finance Clients ( eg in the sale of shares in a family business where any of the shareholders have no active business interests ) , care must be exercised . |
| 13 | In times of crisis and extreme demand it is easy to overlook the willing horses some of whom may not know their own limitations . |
| 14 | The January 1983 Medau News would contain an article explaining the new system to all and a letter would be sent to class secretaries ( some of whom may have changed since Sept. ) asking again for their help in encouraging membership amongst class members . |
| 15 | Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal . |
| 16 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 17 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 18 | Some of them may have been the fathers of the running children . |
| 19 | The status of the pupils in the activity can be raised and the value of their contributions recognised by suggesting that some of them may already possess considerable information and experience ( pp. 36–38 ) . |
| 20 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 21 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 22 | The windows are interesting , with their association with the wool trade , though there is some speculation that some of them may have been brought from another house . |
| 23 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 24 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 25 | There are now serious environmental concerns about a whole range of chemicals that go into these cleaners , and the detrimental effect that some of them may be having on wildlife in rivers and shorelines . |
| 26 | I and 2.0% suggesting that some of them may still be within the gas window . |
| 27 | The routines suggested are guidelines : some of them may not apply to you in your current work . |
| 28 | Some of them may be able to start up new interests , but it 's usually best to start from their own experiences in life . |
| 29 | Many of them are under review and some of them may be virtually ignored in practice . |
| 30 | Female cats are such powerful breeding machines that some of them may even come into heat while they are pregnant . |