Example sentences of "[coord] may [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 2 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 3 | The Tribunal may reserve its judgement or may give its decision after a retirement before the close of the meeting . |
| 4 | In return , the supplier agrees to , or may assign his obligations to , buy goods or technology of equivalent value , from the purchaser or the purchaser 's country or state . |
| 5 | Where the application is made to the district judge he may , if in doubt as to the proper order to be made , refer the application to the judge forthwith or at the next convenient opportunity , and the judge may hear the application and make such order as may be just or may refer it back to the district judge with directions . |
| 6 | If so , chances are you have a serious drinking problem , or may have one in the future . |
| 7 | The supervisor may also monitor the same information or may have his own separate displays or both . |
| 8 | ( 1 ) What market position should you adopt that makes sense to those who buy or may buy your services ? ( a ) Should you adopt a niche approach to certain aspects of personal injury work ( eg paraplegia , brain injuries , disaster litigation ) ? ( b ) Will plaintiff personal injury work preclude defendant or insurance defence work ? |
| 9 | Someone may grab your collar with both hands in order to head-butt you in the face , or may seize you by the hair to punch you . |
| 10 | Midland may at its discretion change these Terms and Conditions , give notice of variation in such a manner as it considers appropriate and may vary its charges and interest rates by general notice in branches . |
| 11 | Your family/spouse/colleagues/ friends may have benefitted from your non-assertion and may sabotage your newly developed assertion . |
| 12 | It is the result of a fluid build-up in or behind the eyeball and may affect one or both of the eyes . |
| 13 | Acute , function-related pain is primarily sensory or peripheral , and may lend itself to treatment with analgesics directed to the involved organ . |
| 14 | He 's formed a useful partnership with Gordon Hunter and may retain his place in spite of the fact that Tommy McIntyre and Neil Orr are again available . |
| 15 | Medical advice , like wet-nursing , was only followed by the wealthy , and may explain their inferior infant mortality rates . |
| 16 | Yet if , as teachers , we concentrate our attention on formal links within sentences , we are taking all these skills for granted , and may leave our students completely at sea . |
| 17 | Unless they can be guaranteed a post , they will consider alternatives at a time when they probably need to be free of distractions from their studies and may commit themselves to another job unnecessarily . |
| 18 | But the investment company collapsed , and now Mr Woodward and his wife owe sixty thousand pounds and may loose their house . |
| 19 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 20 | Occasionally may cling and want to be carried and may show their irritation in some other ways . |
| 21 | All persons privy to confidential , and particularly price-sensitive , information concerning an offer or proposed offer must treat that information as secret and may pass it to another person only if it is necessary to do so and the other person is made aware of the need for secrecy . |
| 22 | The Guardian also says Shearer twisted an ankle avoiding a lunge from Carl Bradshaw on Sat and may miss their game with Pompey on Wednesday , I would n't mind him missing sundays game . |
| 23 | Mrs Wood is pleased to see the back of the children 's father , and may denigrate him in conversation with or overheard by John ( possible inference from lines 21 and 22 ) . |
| 24 | This will make them less decisive and may inhibit them from giving orders or taking charge of the situation . |
| 25 | Hefter and May give us no reason to modify this statement . |
| 26 | The fact that the other child cries and you shout at her lets her know that it was naughty — and may stop her doing it again if you 're lucky — but it does n't mean she understands the pain she 's caused the other child . |
| 27 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 28 | Next week brings three more London premieres and may tell us more . |
| 29 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 30 | If your organization is slap-happy it will unnerve candidates and may make them think twice before accepting a job with you . |