Example sentences of "may [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the local circumstances are such that for Parkinson the Merseyside experience is one that he may disapprove of in principle but lives with far more readily in practice . |
| 2 | Similarly , however much we may disapprove of the Nazis judging Hitler to be evil is not a satisfactory historical explanation . |
| 3 | Books and catalogues may contain criticism ; but their writers may think of themselves as art historians , philosophers , aestheticians , anthropologists , historians or biographers , and there are many other possibilities ; their books may never be identified as art criticism . |
| 4 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 5 | In verse writing , as in virtually any other human activity we may think of , there are thresholds to be reached and crossed : below a certain threshold of practice and expertise , the attitude of the amateur produces only work that is ‘ amateurish ’ ( and heaven knows , we see plenty of that all around us ) ; above a certain threshold of facility , the attitude of the professional produces work that is glib , facile , heartless , and academic — and we see plenty of that , too . |
| 6 | In this sense his Habsburg and Bourbon portraits are not dissimilar to Jasper Johns ' American flag series , except of course that the flag , whatever individuals may think of it , is unquestionably American , the lineage is clear . |
| 7 | So some European banks may think of buying a cheap American network in a shake-out of America 's banking industry . |
| 8 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 9 | Alternatively we may think of the more modern figure of a man whose wealth lies in his investments in stocks and shares . |
| 10 | Twentieth century readers may think of the eighteenth century as a time when dirt was everywhere , and that personal hygiene was abysmal . |
| 11 | Whatever one may think of Sex , Lies and Videotape — — and it does n't have to be much — it does at least address the question of the gaze and of masculine sexuality . |
| 12 | One may think of an army brigade as being composed of battalions , battalions made up of companies and companies made up of platoons . |
| 13 | WHATEVER the British public may think of Buzby , British Telecom 's avian advertising mascot , some of our more natural bird species are clearly impressed . |
| 14 | This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down . |
| 15 | They vary in their tolerance of adjustment : some are quite flexible and some can be adjusted quite radically and these we may think of as more grammatical . |
| 16 | Now , after various newspaper disasters , it is being recognized that allegiance to a particular paper , whatever others may think of it , is not something people change lightly . |
| 17 | If I use the expression ‘ I have toothache ’ I may think of it as ‘ being used naturally ’ or otherwise , but it would be wrong to say that I had a reason for thinking either . |
| 18 | You may think of Simply Red as being more hollow at the centre than wild and crazy guys , but this shows neat exuberance and Hucknall 's increasingly inspired songs . |
| 19 | Otis Ferguson was aware that the film depicted a ‘ phony strike ’ and that there was no real analysis of labour-management problems but he still felt that it had ‘ this air of life whatever we may think of its social content ’ . |
| 20 | Rather , to adopt the method involves accepting that there is a ‘ reality ’ , which is as it is independently of what anyone may think of it , but which suitably organized inquiry is fated to discover eventually ; around the early 1870s Peirce speaks of reality as the final cause of inquiry . |
| 21 | One may think of similarly structured expressions within one category — differing only in lexical items — as stable sub-assemblies with an independent communicative value of their own . |
| 22 | Whatever we may think of their evocative names , ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ and ‘ Peace ’ are much too boisterous to be given room in genteel society . |
| 23 | Whatever one may think of such a position , it at least had the merit of being internally consistent . |
| 24 | Similarly , if your office has a suspended ceiling , you may think of running the cable up there , rather than under the carpet . |
| 25 | Economists may think of the interests of nations in terms of wealth , and lawyers in terms of adherence to legal rules working to one 's advantage . |
| 26 | We may think of the evaluation as having four foci : |
| 27 | From the discussion of epistemology and pedagogy above , we may think of teacher perspectives as entailing one of the following ideal-type attitudes : |
| 28 | A good recent example is the TV launch campaign for First Direct ( whatever you may think of an execution that can best be described as controversial ) . |
| 29 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 30 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |