Example sentences of "[adj] that may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the simplest explanation , these goals relate to an ideal that may become real . |
| 2 | The only good that may result from this modern-day flood may be the removal of the barrier that has prevented people from discussing the humiliation and tortures that they endure . |
| 3 | Professor Nikolaus Fiebiger , president of the University Erlangen in Nuremberg , has proposed an alternative that may meet with better success : to create a number of professorships that would be eliminated as older professors left the university . |
| 4 | Premises on a single floor , or a number of floors , in a larger complex may again produce an identity problem for the sub-tenant ; and if the space itself is not flexible that may spell problems for the company wishing to sub-let . |
| 5 | The first duty of the conqueror , he wrote , ‘ is to maintain his domination and to assure that it will last ; everything is good which has the effect of consolidating and guaranteeing it , everything is bad that may weaken or compromise it ’ . |