Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on the nature of the local vegetation , they may subsist almost entirely on grasses , or on the leafy branches of Douglas fir . |
| 2 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
| 3 | Other individuals may assimilate more readily to London English speech . |
| 4 | The strength of our belief in conformity , based on this ‘ sense of justice ’ may act quite independently of considerations of immediate personal advantage . |
| 5 | Questions may look all right on paper simply because we accept a more formal style in writing than we do in speech , but they may sound absolutely frightful when put into speech . |
| 6 | Ventricular extrasystoles may occur more commonly in patients with ischaemic heart disease , and their presence may have more sinister implications . |
| 7 | Although one or two birds may summer fairly regularly in Chichester or Pagham Harbours , the summer population rarely exceeds about 10 birds ; seven summered at Rye Harbour in 1968 . |
| 8 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 9 | The organization and development of an industry from country to country may vary significantly enough for factors such as final size , management strategy , introduction of new technology and market structure to be important variables explaining differences in the nature of industrial relations in a single industry . |
| 10 | Because the novel relies on prior literary knowledge , each individual reading will necessarily be the idiosyncratic result of an interaction between the proper names given and the reader 's capacity to ‘ round out ’ these names by furnishing them with personalities and circumstantial details ( which may vary considerably even between readers who have read the same texts ) . |
| 11 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 12 | With Economy 7 , you may pay slightly more for electricity used during the day and have higher quarterly standing charges , but overall you will make savings . |
| 13 | It may seem too much like confinement , a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity . |
| 14 | There are some crimes for which women can not be convicted ( e.g. homosexuality , rape ) ; courts may deal more leniently with females , and a proportion of female crime may remain undetected because the police are less sensitive to it . |