Example sentences of "he may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If an individual appears unable to pay his debts or has no reasonable prospect of paying he may also face a bankruptcy petition . |
| 32 | Police fear he may also have been a victim . |
| 33 | He may also a number of magic weapons and other items as described below . |
| 34 | He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell . |
| 35 | He may also have kept the stewardship of Tottington and Rochdale , in spite of Edward 's orders to the contrary . |
| 36 | As the Young King wavered between the three alternatives of remaining dutifully at his father 's side , going to Jerusalem , or marching into Aquitaine , he was certainly tempted by messages from the rebels offering to recognize him as their Duke , but he may also have been egged on by Geoffrey of Brittany . |
| 37 | He may also have a contact man in each functional department responsible for co-ordination and monitoring of the work within the department . |
| 38 | He may also fall prey to complacency in that , having added his bottle of Preparation W , he then fails to notice ailment Z which requires a quite different treatment . |
| 39 | He may also be constrained in terms of what associations he is allowed to declare . |
| 40 | He may also allocate seats to new entrants , but the decision on this is now generally taken on the vote of all members of the chambers . |
| 41 | He may also act on the principle that ‘ things have always been done this way ’ and justify his actions accordingly . |
| 42 | He may also have hoped that by supporting a revolution with which the Chinese felt no small degree of identification , he would be able to outmanoeuvre his Maoist critics . |
| 43 | He may also have been behind certain elements of the design . |
| 44 | He may also , four years later , have been responsible for the designing of the stylistically similar Wisbech Castle , now demolished , for St John 's parliamentary colleague , the secretary of state John Thurloe [ q.v . ] . |
| 45 | He may also have been influenced by the favour shown by Parliament to his friend , Philip Herbert , fourth Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] , when it voted that he should be indemnified for his losses in the war . |
| 46 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 47 | He may also have been a member of the Spectaclemakers ' Company . |
| 48 | In the latter case his learning will be less available for transfer to other situations ; he may also learn faulty language habits . |
| 49 | Apart from the chance that the customer may default on his payments ( perhaps even go bankrupt ) , there is the risk that he may also sell , damage or even destroy the goods . |
| 50 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 51 | He may also have a separate All Risks policy covering unspecified valuables — Sum Insured £5,000 — Single Article Limit £200 . |
| 52 | He will be aware that last night , thousands of young Scots slept rough on the streets of London and he may also be aware of the recent statement by the Moderator of the Church of Scotland , who referred to the fact that 25 per cent . |
| 53 | He will need my attention and as I note from his record that he is also a Roman Catholic by religion , he may also need the ministrations of Father Martin here . ’ |
| 54 | With luck he may also find surveys that provide a much fuller description of properties and the nature of tenancies , including sometimes the names of previous owners . |
| 55 | He may also have developed some connections with the Tempests of Bracewell . |
| 56 | He may also have kept the stewardship of Tottington and Rochdale , in spite of Edward 's orders to the contrary . |
| 57 | He may also have felt that the time was not ripe for any definitive initiative . |
| 58 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 59 | Like other powerful English rulers , he may also have been recognised as overlord by the Welsh and Scots , and possibly some of the Irish . |
| 60 | But he may also have intended to remind those present that he had come to the throne as a result of the treaty he had made with Edmund , which according to Florence of Worcester established peace , friendship and brotherhood between them . |