Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elves , like dragons , are embedded deeply in several different traditions of North-West Europe , and the inconsistencies of those traditions may only have made Tolkien itch to create a Zusammenhang . |
| 2 | By the same token , the treaty arrangements that these countries may individually wish to make with other states must be matters for them . |
| 3 | ‘ We may still have to make penalty payments or let some of the existing agencies run out their contracts and buy airtime . ’ |
| 4 | However , developments in computer technology ( eg microcomputers linked to a larger central computer or networked micros ) may also have made decentralised management control easier and cheaper . |
| 5 | The unanimous condemnation of marriage as a trade by the feminist movement may also have made a significant contribution to the new emphasis on marriage as a partnership . |
| 6 | Some of the eurypterids may even have made tentative excursions on to the land . |
| 7 | Near the end of his reign Perdikkas may even have made an alliance with Argos , who after the Peace of Nikias in 421 again starts to take an individual line on foreign policy . |
| 8 | Opposition Members may well decide to make some progress and we may get to new clause 9 and to others further down the list , we can not be sure about that . |
| 9 | Improving your confidence may well necessitate making decisions . |
| 10 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |
| 11 | As we saw in section 5.2 , recent changes in the nature of local politics may well have made the ideal-type of the dual state no longer applicable . |
| 12 | The set culminates in an outrageously zany harmonisation of the famous ‘ O du lieber Augustin ’ , whose adventurousness may well have made even a composer like Prokofiev blanch . |
| 13 | I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day . |
| 14 | Such new sources of political energy may well have made the Athenians look hungrily away from their old markets to Sicily and Egypt . |
| 15 | The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) . |
| 16 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 17 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 18 | Tight labour markets and increased union strength at the end of the sixties may well have made it more difficult for employers to increase work intensity and carry out schemes of reorganization . |
| 19 | In many circumstances this might not be a problem , but if you are at all keen on the subject and a little more experienced in circuit design and assembly , you may well wish to make another board or perhaps modify the circuit ( and probably the p.c.b . |
| 20 | In view of the disadvantage which being in care all too often represents , that may sometimes mean making a special effort to ensure the quality of education given to children in care . |
| 21 | They may then have made that a major guiding light in their teaching , introducing the concept carefully but firmly , whilst at the same time concentrating on improving the agriculture and amenities . |
| 22 | These rules may give rise to larger provisions than the directors may otherwise have made . |
| 23 | Yes , erm , on paragraph three erm , the , the last sentence erm , where it says without direct access to its own balances , the authority may therefore have to make revised precept in ninety four , ninety five erm , I understand what 's being said there , but any organization needs to actually work within er , a clearly defined budget . |
| 24 | The neatness comes afterwards ; it gets imposed when a long and laborious and very untidy process is shortcircuited by the observation ( which Dostoevsky himself may never have made ) of a direct link between Stavrogin and the underground man . |