Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just in case I may say things I 'll be sorry for , I 'd better not go on , except for one last word . |
| 2 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 3 | Of course I may be prejudiced — he called me Old Faithful . ’ |
| 4 | It is your husband-to-be who declares ( or will declare , and of course I may misquote ) that poets are mirrors of the tremendous shadows which futurity casts upon the present , and the unacknowledged legislators of the world . |
| 5 | With luck I may be able to sleep tonight , without dreaming , without lying awake in sweating fear , listening to the sounds creeping up the house . |
| 6 | Well if there 's no intention I may as well cancel him altogether . |
| 7 | This is good news for all because with a few modifications hopefully on the same car I may be in with a chance for first prize next year where the prize money increases plus a trip to the States to see their ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ . |
| 8 | The back row played well and so did the front three , so any optimism I may feel about the future is well grounded . |
| 9 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 10 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 11 | All tender issues are underwritten by the Bank and issues that are undersubscribed are taken up by the Bank and used as ‘ tap ’ stock which may be sold into the secondary market at the discretion of the Bank . |
| 12 | To cut a long story short , he concluded that most of these effects were ambiguous but that there was one effect which could , in principle , be quite powerful in raising the level of real expenditure and income : for a constant nominal stock of money , a fall in the price level will raise the real money stock which may , in turn , exert significant downward pressure on the rate of interest . |
| 13 | Nor do I consider that any in-house tariff which may exist in the Home Office need be disclosed . |
| 14 | The original problem definition of ‘ How to improve the sales team ? ’ could be re-expressed as ‘ How to make the sales team perform like Newcastle United Football Club ? ’ ( an analogy which may suggest better team training or a new look at tactics ) or ‘ How to address corporate turbulence ? ’ a metaphor which may prompt ideas of inter-departmental conflict . |
| 15 | Into a pattern of military administration which may appear deceptively well organised there stepped a class of soldier , the mercenary , whose presence to people of the late Middle Ages meant destruction and disorder . |
| 16 | ‘ Tolls are a daily expense which may deter motorists more than a rush-hour permit which is a one-off expense , ’ says Rob Lenterman , of Nedlloyd , a multinational freight company based in Rotterdam . |
| 17 | The amount of new music being published might suggest that commissioning people to write music for worship is unnecessary , particularly given the expense which may be involved . |
| 18 | The hippocampus receives a large cholinergic innervation which may also play a role because LTP can be enhanced by the cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine but is reduced by the anticholinergic agent scopolamine . |
| 19 | We would suggest that in neuropathic pseudoobstruction it is more likely that the tachygastria is induced by loss of intrinsic inhibitory innervation which may normally modify the frequency of polarisation of the plasmalemmal membrane of the gastric smooth muscle cells . |
| 20 | ‘ Food fads create a market niche which may be short-lived ; food scares induce a glut of specific vulnerable products and economic distress , but the emerging concept of ‘ healthy foods ’ is bound to become progressively more important as the population follows the trend to healthy eating . |
| 21 | On the other hand the farm worker has been placed in control of important and costly pieces of farm investment which may run into many thousands of pounds . |
| 22 | Warning : These plays are sexually explicit and contain nudity and violence which may offend . |
| 23 | Freud is not saying that the individual feels the emotion which may underlie religious beliefs and practices , and that this is why they are performed . |
| 24 | This form of communication must not , however , be equated with the formal , structured monologue which may reflect classical Greek influence rather than the Judaic-Christian tradition . |
| 25 | In many cases they are actually simpler since a complete instruction is executed in a single machine cycle unlike a microprocessor which may make several memory access when executing a single instruction . |
| 26 | You worry in the here and now about things in the future which may never happen . |
| 27 | And now , my dear Sir , having said this much on behalf of this deserving Youth , I must beg to assure you that however zealous my wish to be the means of serving him and his poor Mother , I do not wish , on that account , to influence you — Quite the contrary — I know that in similar cases , your benevolent views have been disappointed , and , perhaps , you have consequently made arrangements for the Future which may render it ineligible to take any youth in the same way as proposed to his Brother — even if you have at present — or are likely in course of a year or two — to have a vacancy . |
| 28 | Workers at all levels face a future which may of necessity or choice embrace a number of quite different careers . |
| 29 | For further information about ‘ Positive Options ’ and Barnardo 's services for families facing AIDS which may be available in your area , write to : |
| 30 | The durability of the Royal Scotsman over five long seasons of operation , with the top tour price now only a short step away from £3,000 was proven by 1989 , but even as this book was being prepared for press , there were changes in the wind which may prove to be a sterner test of the depth of the elitist train-tour market . |