Example sentences of "[coord] may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The association of factors such as psychiatric illness of parent , marital disharmony , overprotectiveness and abnormal thinking and communication may or may not be relevant to onset or relapse , or may simply be another result of the same genetic constitution which produced a child vulnerable to schizophrenia . |
| 2 | A.3.1 The Vendor will forthwith notify in writing to the Purchaser any matter or thing which may arise or become known to any of them after the date of this Agreement ( whether or not prior to Completion ) which is inconsistent with any of the Warranties or which is or may reasonably be anticipated to be material to be known by a Purchaser for value of the Business . |
| 3 | There is a full discussion of this case at p76. 1.5 The employee 's duty to disclose to his employer information which may be of use to that employer ( and not personally to profit from it ) If , during the course of employment , an employee receives information which is or may reasonably be relevant to his employer 's business then he is under a duty : ( a ) to disclose all relevant information received to the employer ; and ( b ) not to use that information for his or another 's benefit unless the employer consents . |
| 4 | The dividend may be expressed as a fixed percentage of the nominal or paid up value of the shares , or may even extend to participation in any dividends declared over and above that fixed amount . |
| 5 | Instability was greatest at periods of high sedimentation at the onset of deglaciation , when ice sheets reached or may even have extended beyond the shelf break . |
| 6 | The visible action may apparently be trivial — adjusting one or two of very many available controls — or may even be non-existent . |
| 7 | Those who defend the kinship bond find more acceptable a situation where , say , a child may maintain an active relationship with his [ or her ] natural parents while living with foster-parents , or may even remain in contact with them after adoption . |
| 8 | Perhaps their part is best summarised by remarking that if the brain is damaged at this region not only sexual capacity may be reduced but libido ( sexual urge ) may be reduced or may even be completely lost ; in the opposite direction , artificial stimulation by means of electrodes implanted in these parts of the brain can reproduce the sensations of orgasm and its phenomena — ejaculation etc . |
| 9 | Herbs to keep an eye on are the marjorams , of which there are at least three different kinds , tarragon ( two ) , dill and fennel , which hybridize very easily , garden mint which is often a cross with horse-mint , or may even be that species , lovage which can look like ground-elder while young , and French sorrel which is invariably confused with the inferior-tasting English sorrel . |
| 10 | But in any event , the argument makes a disproportionate claim , or may even involve a non sequitur . |
| 11 | Similarly , someone who is primarily in a bulimic phase of the disease may binge on lettuce or on other foodstuffs that have particularly low calorie value and weight-producing potential or may even control body weight by dramatically reducing fluid intake . |
| 12 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 13 | Children may be referred by teachers or parents or may even ask for help themselves . |
| 14 | apart from anything else er , er , er your complaint has been rather overtaken by events and , and both parties would no doubt wish to or may well wish to take further , er , but I think you 'll both agree that prospects of er let say getting any meaningful answer out of the commission by Christmas are remote . |
| 15 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 16 | Depending on the length of course you choose , content may be essentially to do with financial planning or may also include health and leisure plus the social and emotional adjustments to retirement . |
| 17 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |
| 18 | * Usage Rate — the supplier may attempt to increase the purchase rate of the customer , so that the customer becomes a heavier user , or may instead try to increase his proportion of the customer 's total order for the product . |
| 19 | While a supervision order is in force the supervisor has a duty to : ( i ) advise , assist and befriend the supervised child ; ( ii ) take such steps as are reasonably necessary to give effect to the order ; ( iii ) consider whether or not to apply for discharge or variation where the order is not wholly complied with or may no longer be necessary ( s35(1) ) . |
| 20 | Commonly the prescriber will be fairly familiar with the remedies and will ‘ just know ’ the remedy as the case is taken or may only need to look up one or two symptoms to confirm the remedy . |
| 21 | The user may find a book on a subject but it may not be what he really requires or may only partially satisfy his needs . |
| 22 | These are a different species , which do not contain as much of the herbal essence , or may indeed not contain any . |
| 23 | This will record any restrictive covenants that may be set out in full in the body of the certificate or may more commonly be referred to in a transfer deed , which may be sewn into the back of the certificate . |
| 24 | Perhaps Edward indeed was reluctant to embark on that wholesale hanging ; or may merely have assessed that this way he would force the Scots army into a rash and costly attack which he could repulse , and then get Berwick 's surrender . |
| 25 | Commonly , later stages of cements precipitated during veining episodes may induce neomorphism of earlier cements , replacing them partially or completely , or may merely precipitate films of new material along crystal interfaces between existing cements . |
| 26 | Extreme irritability ; does not want to talk or be disturbed and may later be stupefied , a state of stupor bordering on unconsciousness even . |
| 27 | A pro forma invoice may be sent before goods are delivered : if the customer is a new one and the manufacturer does n't know if he will pay his bills ; or if the goods are being sent on approval and may later be returned to the manufacturer . |
| 28 | As many commentators , including the Building Societies Association , have noted , owner-occupation is not an ideal tenure for young people who are often mobile and may neither want nor be able to afford owner-occupation . |
| 29 | Then one learns what kinds of questions , formulated in an alien mode of thought , might receive answers — but answers which , though grammatically , syntactically and even semantically plausible , do not represent , and may positively misrepresent , indigenous and spontaneous interests and ideas ’ ( ibid. p. 74 ) . |
| 30 | These are clearly more formal models than those which the modern letter-writer is used to , yet Shakespeare 's range stretches from the intimate and occasional to just such formal rhetorical structures as Day 's category of the ‘ Epistle Deliberative ’ , which uses a mixture of praise and criticism in its ‘ Hortatory ’ or ‘ Dehortatory ’ intent , and may legitimately subject the recipient to moral pressure : Yet , while acknowledging the relevance of Day 's treatise on letter-writing and its tactics of persuasion , we may note that in Shakespeare one of Day 's categories is absent , namely the ‘ Responsory Epistle ’ , which ‘ dependeth of the partes of a former letter ’ and must refer back to it . |