Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A six-mile stretch at the southern end of the M1 was shut yesterday and may remain closed all today . |
| 2 | We could easily quite often sit on the fence and say the sun may come out or it may stay cloudy all day . |
| 3 | Some may think all this fresh air has gone to Mr Ward 's head but undaunted , he 's already working on his next project . |
| 4 | In these circumstances , a futures market may convey some more of the information possessed by the informed traders to the uninformed . |
| 5 | The revitalised company that started life building its own 16-bit minicomputers , ultimately plunged into bankruptcy and returned from the dead as a library automation systems specialist , may make two more acquisitions this month , president and chief executive Stephen Sadler told the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts — and it expects to make at least an acquisition a month for the rest of the next 12 months . |
| 6 | Although the initial concern of weight gain may be eliminated in some cases , the parent-child relationship may need much more help ( Harris 1982 ) . |
| 7 | I say it should be a nice evening , and I think to myself I may need all that wine . |
| 8 | You may need several such scenes . |
| 9 | Erm there 's also a view been expressed that well if you 're going to have it it may need some more guidance than is presently written into it . |
| 10 | Do it to me Capricorn this is an extremely significant time , a close relationship has undergone a complete transformation in the solar eclipse of the sun , you may feel insecure this week I always feel insecure |
| 11 | further , top management may do little more than pay lip-service to computing . |
| 12 | Facial expressions may do all these , but in addition may indicate understanding , concentration and attention . |
| 13 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 14 | Sometimes we may use much more of one colour than another ; this is natural since different demands and opportunities arise at each phase of life . |
| 15 | So what we need to do is understand as much as we can of all pattern writing and notation methods , so that we may use all that is available to us in magazines , books , and so on . |
| 16 | Carrying on investment business without the appropriate authorisation , except where professionals are dealing with professionals , is not only a criminal offence but may render unenforceable any contract entered into . |
| 17 | In a high-context culture business meeting , for instance , the parties may spend much more time establishing friendship and mutual trust rather than discussing the particular item of business . |
| 18 | Those carrying the disabling genes of schizophrenia , manic depression and low intelligence may constitute ten more per cent of the US or European population . |
| 19 | 7.7.2 not to do or omit anything that could cause any policy of insurance on or in relation to the Premises to become void or voidable wholly or in part nor ( unless the Tenant shall have previously notified the Landlord and have agreed to pay the increased premium ) anything by which additional insurance premiums may become payable This does not seem unreasonable . |
| 20 | Papers published in other journals which have no such limitation may contain many more references , some of which will have had considerable influence on the authors , and others whose influence is slight . |
| 21 | Sometimes a formal " Intervention " may cut short many years of further suffering . |
| 22 | While GRIST courses can help to raise awareness of particular issues , the benefits of providing a programme of in-house courses addressed to a particular school 's needs may have much more relevance for the staff . |
| 23 | Again , that this is the case is not contradicted by the fact that , in many spheres , I may have much more in common with first world men than with third world women . |
| 24 | Americans may have little more trust in businessmen than other specialists , but they do believe they have the ability to ‘ deliver the goods ’ . |
| 25 | You may have one such yourself . |
| 26 | Something may be green , or fat , or it may be running , and it may have all these properties or none without ceasing to exist . |
| 27 | You may have all these symptoms and more — and yet they still would n't constitute grounds for refusing to sign the minutes . |
| 28 | A few ‘ meanings ’ have been suggested for the five tones that have been introduced , but each tone may have many more such meanings . |
| 29 | Equipment and fittings may have several such surfaces . |
| 30 | But if the act does n't get success , two things may happen : the record company will probably drop the act , though they may try one more record ; and the finances of running the band will probably cause the act to go bust . |