Example sentences of "[verb] that may " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dissociated the Church totally with any boundary walking that may still take place . |
| 2 | If you have burnt your mouth , suck ice in order to stop any swelling occurring that may constrict your airway . |
| 3 | His conclusion : ‘ We have an assay test that may be wrong 50 per cent of the time ’ . |
| 4 | It forces the researcher to take seriously questions that may be relevant to other fields of enquiry , but which are not always so sharply focused . |
| 5 | In a very few cases , serious mental disorders similar to schizophrenia or mania have been reported that may be due to a direct effect of HIV on the brain . |
| 6 | the right to have needs and wants that may differ from other people 's |
| 7 | Harmonic lines are most commonly in two forms : ( 1 ) Parallels that may be straight , or curves of similar radius , concentric curves or mixtures of these . |
| 8 | mortgage – ( to ) ( for ) , give sb a claim on ( property ) as a security for payment of a debt or loan : – a house ( to sb for $40000 ) ; land that may be –d. n act of mortgaging ; agreement about this : raise a – ( on one 's house ) from a bank . |
| 9 | For those not familiar with the effects of earth energy lines , Mr Heye sent further documentation with his letter that listed some of the tell tale signs that may show someone is suffering from bad earth vibes . |
| 10 | In other words , carp baits have ceased to be merely baits : they are being catapulted in their thousands into every water in the UK to feed up carp that may never be caught . |
| 11 | ( 1991 ) have analysed various industrial policy measures that may achieve these ends , including direct and indirect subsidies to producers as well as standard protectionist measures such as tariffs , quotas , and non-tariff barriers . |
| 12 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 13 | Although infra-red light is invisible to the human eye , it can be detected by special photographic film ; in general , the amount of infra-red light reflected from a plant depends on its ripeness , so that infra-red photographs can produce good-contrast images of crop marks that may be hardly visible on ordinary photographic film or to the eye . |
| 14 | I have great sympathy with the premise on which the hon. Gentleman bases his question , but such matters are best determined by individual employers and their work forces and not by the imposition of general blanket rules that may not be appropriate to individual countries or companies . |
| 15 | These , it is important to stress , are generalizations — there are always individuals or subcultures that may not have such orientations . |
| 16 | You may feel that an idea of this sort is what will give you the most charge to get through the sixty , seventy or eighty thousand words that lie between you and a finished manuscript , let alone the weeks of researching that may be necessary and the dense hours of hard thinking . |
| 17 | Since Dr Banda , 93 , took control after independence from Britain in 1964 , he has governed the country with an iron grip that may finally be loosening . |
| 18 | Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea ? |
| 19 | Now the Beaconsfield trio finally release a follow-up on the Creation label — ‘ Philly ’ , which has a few string sounds that may have been influenced by ( or stolen from ) old Philadelphia International disco classics , but which otherwise is a solid gold indie dance tune . |
| 20 | In some cases statistical techniques ( regression analysis ) are employed that may use past expenditure on particular services as a proxy for need . |
| 21 | In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning . |
| 22 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 23 | The company , a wholly-owned $3 million Virginia subsidiary of publicly held Convergent Solutions Inc , describes its NuTcracker technology as the opposite of Wind/U , the Bristol Technology Windows-on-Unix scheme that may feature in Microsoft 's moves to counter WABI . |
| 24 | For 300 years or more our science has omitted any human attributes that may impinge upon or impede its mechanistic working model . |
| 25 | At the base there is a locally derived ground moraine that may be a remnant glacial deposit of much greater antiquity . |
| 26 | Later abolitionists , most notably Thomas Mathiesen , have argued that only ‘ negative ’ reforms ( changes that may reduce the debit side of the prison 's legitimacy but add nothing to the credit side ) be encouraged . |
| 27 | Third , can booksellers make a greater profit using their shelf space for displaying electronic products than the book stocks that may have to be sacrificed ? |
| 28 | These have emphasized the importance of controlling the agenda ( i.e. , determining the order in which votes are taken ) and of strategic voting ( i.e. , voting that may not represent one 's true preferences ) . |
| 29 | Research on its aetiology has focused , at one end of the spectrum , on causal mechanisms — for example , inherited metabolic diseases — and , at the other end , on infant care practices that may be potentially protective or harmful , such as sleeping position . |
| 30 | Recognising that the apparently low incidence of the sudden infant death syndrome was difficult to explain wholly in terms of currently recognised risk factors , we sought to identify other differences in infant care practices that may contribute to the lower incidence of such deaths in Bangladeshi babies . |