Example sentences of "and it may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 32 | When a Steam Tank ploughs through a unit it will probably hit several models and it may run over several units in a turn if it is lucky . |
| 33 | According to Devlin , society may wish to lay down moral standards for its citizens , and it may wish to use the criminal law to enforce those standards . |
| 34 | ‘ Obviously they 're looking at every aspect and it may include action against Tom Walkinshaw for putting together a deal that has been ruled unlawful . ’ |
| 35 | Your army must include at least 25% of its points value as regiments chosen from the following list , and it may include more if you wish . |
| 36 | It does not impress the reader and it may obscure the message . |
| 37 | This is a speculative proposal , merely , and it may fall foul of the fact that in our image-ridden culture reading is difficult , and literary texts still demand to be read , rigorously and carefully . |
| 38 | And I 'll work that into the five per cent and it may reduce the erm period of time |
| 39 | It may appear harsh to criticize the Library Association for not pursuing possible cases of professional misconduct and it may seem even harsher to pillory members of the Association for putting personal interests first and professional interests second , but censorship , and being party to censorship . |
| 40 | And it may seem strange , but it 's very difficult to be a good composer on the guitar ; rhythmically you are often stuck and you ca n't play a lot of counterpoint rhythms . |
| 41 | She will recognize your being , and it may seem as if the light she is shining is a cold one at times . |
| 42 | This concept has been much haggled over , and it may seem both unfair to Poulantzas and unrevealing of his work as a whole to pick on its Achilles ' heel . |
| 43 | Certainly scientists and fifth-formers are not working in identical circumstances or in identical ways , and it may seem that the objective has been over-simplified or exaggerated . |
| 44 | Too short and it may seem rude , too long and it may bore the guests and dampen the proceedings . |
| 45 | The weight seems to pour on , especially after 24 weeks , and it may seem impossible to keep your weight gain within the current guidelines of 20–30lb . |
| 46 | In some quarters , of course , he was enormously popular , and it may have been that as a young man in his early twenties he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans . |
| 47 | They are predators , and probably always have been , and it may have been the adoption of hunting habits that favoured the development of high intelligence . |
| 48 | For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred . |
| 49 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 50 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 51 | And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game . |
| 52 | And it may have been her devotion to fitness that saved her life . |
| 53 | This claim has never been proved and it may have been part of the Securitate 's scare tactics . |
| 54 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 55 | At about the same time as he issued his threat of deposition to all the abbots of Normandy , he ordered Anselm to send him his Monologion and Proslogion , perhaps initially for censure , and it may have been through Hugh that Gregory VII knew Anselm 's works . |
| 56 | Boston-based Ares Software Corp is hoping to licence its FontChameleon technology to operating system designers , application developers and printer manufacturers , and it may have some success since FontChameleon is supposedly compatible with existing PostScript and TrueType standards . |
| 57 | If external then the situation caused it and it may have been outside the control of the individual . |
| 58 | Afterwards nobody could tell us about our route and it may have been a first ascent — we still do not know . |
| 59 | James Tyrell had evidently committed himself to the Yorkists by 1471 , when he was knighted at Tewkesbury , and it may have been links with the crown which eased his passage into Gloucester 's service . |
| 60 | He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention . |