Example sentences of "but may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supervisory authority is not able to grant an exemption from the information required , but may do so in respect of additional information that it has requested . |
| 2 | Local authorities have no general power to make ex gratia payments , but may do so on the recommendation of the local government ombudsman . |
| 3 | The Nubas of East Africa fear to enter the house of their king , but may do so by baring their left shoulder , and having the king touch it . |
| 4 | He is not obliged to deal with proofs lodged after the last date for proving but may do so if he thinks fit ( r 11.3(2) ) . |
| 5 | Except where the packing is perfect , as in paraffins and in some polyacetylenes , the chains do not adopt a unique structure but may partake of crystalline order in some regions ; while in other parts a quasi-amorphous state is found , with all possible grades of disorder between . |
| 6 | The mechanism(s) of activation remain obscure but may involve phosphorylation of the Na + /H + exchanger . |
| 7 | In other words , they can easily be converted into cash but may involve some loss . |
| 8 | Proceedings under the Children Act 1989 are civil but may involve allegations of very serious misconduct . |
| 9 | The implication is that the fuse for type I diabetes is lit early in life but may burn faster in some than in others . |
| 10 | Hillslope failure ( as at Aberfan in South Wales in 1966 ) is a geomorphic hazard but may arise because of raw material extraction . |
| 11 | ( Gladstone 's dress , Housman 's fashion and Marsh 's livery have no obvious warrant in the Horatian text , but may arise from a common " poetic " idea of Nature as clothing . ) |
| 12 | Then water levels in the aquifer do not recover , but may continue to fall as summer approaches . |
| 13 | We all carry a few purely personal mysteries , some of which will never be solved in this life , but may continue to gnaw for all our years . |
| 14 | The Housing Act 1974 adds to the above criteria of ‘ unfitness ’ a list of certain ‘ standard amenities ’ , the absence of which does not render a dwelling unfit but may make it eligible for improvement grants . |
| 15 | The wife may have a shrewd idea , but may offer comfort without choosing to seek out the source of the pain . |
| 16 | A law student who is a CAB trainee volunteer may not fear legislative tomes but may want considerably more training to cope with an emotional client and feel the need for deeper counselling skills than basic training allows time for . |
| 17 | This can be successful in later stages of the disease but may miss some patients in the early stages through their sheer " whiteknuckle " determination . |
| 18 | Firms may not wish to prosecute an employee who has been fiddling them but may prefer to deal with the matter informally , to avoid bad publicity or appearing inefficient and the Possible loss of the confidence of their clients . |
| 19 | This is a valid assumption when using a purely exchange-value model , but may present problems when dealing with a model that uses current monetary units of account . |
| 20 | For example , the exclusive purchasing agreement by itself raises the manufacturer 's margin , but may lower the retail margin . |
| 21 | Yet our present line of argument shows that there is another possibility that , because of failures in individual and superego development , such conflicts will no longer be confined within the personality , but may break out between it and the outside world . |
| 22 | The ammeter can be left in but may show full deflection if the battery is in a very discharged condition . |
| 23 | Thus there is evidence that the better educated do not show a greater consonance between general principles of fairness and particular stances on racial issues , but may show greater flexibility in justifying the laying aside of abstract principles ( Sniderman et al . , |
| 24 | By setting local government reform in a wider ‘ political economy ’ context , Cockburn and Dearlove help to explain change , but may exaggerate its significance . |
| 25 | The use of other envelopes will not invalidate the transaction but may give rise to delays . |
| 26 | Loss of auditory stimulation at birth or shortly after is therefore not simply a loss of some hearing experience , but may create a loss of potential auditory processing at a later stage . |
| 27 | As Levy ( 1979 : 193 ) remarks , ‘ the speaker by making reference may not simply identify but may construct the object by selecting from a field of relations those properties that are relevant at the moment of utterance ’ . |
| 28 | Similarly , the distinction between ‘ old-fashioned ’ and ‘ modern racism ’ may not always be a distinction in kind , but may reflect an ability to provide justifications , often post hoc , for views and positions . |
| 29 | The lower dose equivalence for QTc interval remains unexplained but may reflect compensatory mechanisms or greater β 2 selectivity of salmeterol . |
| 30 | Line Of Vision , who finished second to the highly rated Argentum at Nottingham , should do best of the pair , but may fail to hold the impressive Brighton winner , Alysardi ( 3.40 ) , who at $205,000 as a yearling , cost almost 10 times as much . |