Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the sound of hooves on the turf makes your heart flutter , you may prefer to think of chance in terms of odds . |
| 2 | Whatever criticisms one may want to make of the quality of the evidence and analysis of the debate , it is hard to deny its effectiveness in changing the climate with regard to the control of the curriculum . |
| 3 | They may need reminding of what to do , so it may help to talk them through it . |
| 4 | You may like to think of the essay as a journey ; in the introduction you give the directions and the likely route that will be taken . |
| 5 | As many ponds are in beautiful gardens many readers may like to know of a possible source of free fertiliser . |
| 6 | The original text may have consisted of 153 words , but many of these are function words and a further number produces no alternative candidates when put through the simulator . |
| 7 | Patients should be disabused of any notion they may have developed of the possibility of becoming invalids as a result of the heart attack . |
| 8 | Many churchmen may have disapproved of the practice ; but to those who flocked for cure , it was a proof of the king 's holiness , and a sign that Helgaud 's miracle-worker king had not been entirely forgotten . |
| 9 | You may have heard of his kid brother . |
| 10 | Perhaps , among the 75 per cent who may have heard of the CAB but have never sought assistance , there are many who would come to a bureau if they could . |
| 11 | You may have heard of a technique called ‘ path analysis ’ and have wondered if it referred to the methods discussed in this chapter . |
| 12 | Also they may have heard of the legendary speed at which Pentos pays its bills . |
| 13 | Come now , whatever you may have heard of me , this is a perfectly ordinary hand , not a centaur 's hoof or a goblin 's claw . ’ |
| 14 | You may have heard of me ? ’ |
| 15 | So you ca n't dissolve a congress , there 's a fixed term , I 'll read you what the constitution says , it says the president shall from time to time give to the congress information on the state of the union you may have heard of the famous state of the union address to congress that the president makes on an annual basis and he shall recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient . |
| 16 | ‘ You may have heard of it in history class in school . ’ |
| 17 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 18 | Well undoubtedly the first thing that happened in St Aldate 's , the most important thing , was after the battle of Edgefield , when the King rode in in state erm in victory he said , though the fact that the battle was indecisive , and it was described by a very royalist writer Anthony Wood , you may have heard of , is a university antiquarian erm very much on the university and royalist side . |
| 19 | Instead , virgin forest is plundered , and behind the loggers come thousands of displaced migrant farmers who destroy any chance the land may have had of regenerating itself . |
| 20 | Any romanticised impressions I may have had of the East End were quickly tempered if not dispelled by the striking images of endemic poverty and a sclerotic political culture . |
| 21 | GIMMICK ! and f—s up any chance they may have had of ever being taken seriously . |
| 22 | Any expectations he may have had of inheriting a larger share of the Angevin Empire were fading fast . |
| 23 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 24 | However , because of the limitations in the design of the study it was not clear to what extent the link between subjective risk and recall was caused by less interesting factors such as the type of memory test used , the fact that risk ratings were previously given by the drivers , and the expectations subjects may have had of what the study was about . |
| 25 | Surrounded as he was by flatterers and sycophants , Constantius may have disposed of some of the land as rewards for service and information , but he needed money to recoup the heavy losses in his army . |
| 26 | The First Band itself may have seemed of small significance at the time compared to parliament 's apparently much more crucial decision one week after it was signed to go ahead with the marriage negotiations . |
| 27 | Possibly de Moivre was one of Bayes 's teachers , so that Bayes may have learned of the problem directly from him , although he may equally have encountered it first in his writings or in the Observations on Man , His Frame , His Duty , And His Expectations ( 1749 ) by David Hartley [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | His prohibition of the sale of Christians to the heathen , for example , was drawn from an English source , although he may have known of Henry II 's identical measure in Germany in 1006 . |
| 29 | The boys may have thought of tacking Countdown 's Richard Whiteley on to the start of Neil Young 's ‘ Only Love Can Break Your Heart ’ ( last year 's most natural shuffle beat appropriation ) but the show 's all Stephanie 's . |
| 30 | He recognized that this was contrary to the opinion of the pope and others at the papal court , but he put it forward as his own : ‘ others certainly may have thought of it , but I received it from no one ’ . |