Example sentences of "[pron] may [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its standard form , the Prisoners ' Dilemma is a game played by two players , each of whom may choose either to cooperate , C , or defect , D , in any one encounter . |
| 2 | from this point on , Spencer Stuart became a genuinely international firm owned by its own consultants ( none of whom may hold more than 2% of the stock ) and managed by a Chairman and a Chief Executive , each of whom is elected to the position for a defined period . |
| 3 | Performing King Lear in the round meant making eye-contact with members of the audience , some of whom may have really been embroiled in mayhem the actors were merely playing at . |
| 4 | Investors are reminded that as a consequence of the general nature of the investments held and of possible exchange and interest rate fluctuations , the value of their shares and the yield from them may go down as well as up and that past performance is no guide to the future . |
| 5 | Others among them may form consistently unfortunate or unhappy heterosexual relationships without realising the true reason for their failures in this area ; for these , realisation of their homosexual needs and urges could be a step towards release from a heterosexual bondage . |
| 6 | Beauty is often the object of envy by a plain person , yet people whose prettiness as children captivated the adults around them may grow up with a severe disadvantage . |
| 7 | I have passed it round the various organisations within the parish and some of them may reply directly to your office . |
| 8 | Under the present definition of such schemes , the beneficiaries of them may include not only present employees of the company concerned , but also employees , or former employees , of it or any company in the same group , and the spouses , widows or widowers , children or step-children under the age of 18 , of any such employees . |
| 9 | Although most of these techniques are expensive and difficult to use , it is possible that at least some of them may become more easily available ; they can be very useful both for discovering in detail how English speakers produce their speech sounds , and for demonstrating to learners of English their pronunciation errors in a way that helps them to correct them . |
| 10 | The buttery-hatch is open from dawn to dusk for the entire week ; everyone may eat as much as he can , and take off in a basket as much as he can carry , including clothing , ‘ for a Christian gentleman of high degree was Eustace Lyle ’ . |
| 11 | At first , being so aware of ourselves may seem very strange ; this is because we are not used to it . |
| 12 | ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely |
| 13 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 14 | In choices of means , I may pay severely for failing to recognize the equality of personal as of spatial and temporal viewpoints , if for example I lose awareness of the fact that a competitor 's need and determination is as great as mine ; but in choosing between our ends , nothing compels me to feel the pull of his inclination equally with mine , other than a recognition that it is illogical to shut my eyes in one case to what I am forced to acknowledge in the other . |
| 15 | ‘ We live in a monarchy , and if I may speak personally , I hope and believe we always will . |
| 16 | Tell me that , so I may hope still to find , one day , a man of pure heart . |
| 17 | Similar impressions seem to arise from sentences such as I may leave tomorrow and I can finish it next week . |
| 18 | I may end up taking them off completely though . |
| 19 | But if I may make so bold — will you be careful of my master ? |
| 20 | " Well , " she said , looking at them in turn again , lifting her face to gaze directly at Graham , " if I may make so bold , chaps , how about a drink ? |
| 21 | Er they were very fair er if I may bring in er this has nothing to do with my er well no it has as well . |
| 22 | When I started refereeing in the 1960s the props ' attitude was : ‘ I may go backwards in a scrummage , but I will never go down ’ . |
| 23 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 24 | Now as part of an annual goal which is to run some public courses later on in the year , erm , I 've broken that down in a way that I may go through later , to things that I have to do on , on a month by month basis , and this month I need to create the mailing list . |
| 25 | I may go through for a day you know . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean I may go soon ? ’ |
| 27 | I , I , I , if I may go on an and er make some other comments on it i is that appropriate or should I wait for that are we still talking about the by-pass ? |
| 28 | I may go even further than the Long Drive , he 'd said . |
| 29 | I may go there . |
| 30 | ‘ I take it I may go back to my hotel now ? ’ |