Example sentences of "may [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sections of the left may currenty be enthused with the European Parliament and Social Charter , but out there , where it counts , in Europe 's cities and countryside , dinosaurs who should have become extinct in the 1930s are making the running .
2 We may instance transport , where there is a complex relationship between a central government department , local authorities and British Rail .
3 Marketers of personal pensions do appear to have discouraged exits from good occupational schemes and indicated that a return to SERPS may advantage employees as they get older .
4 I may plea with her to spend more time with me , but finally she chooses .
5 Can I , yeah , can I go on to the application if I may Chairman ?
6 If I may chairman .
7 If I may Chairman on the third set of questions erm those are
8 At its discretion the Tribunal may abridge or extend time limits specified in this paragraph as it may deem necessary .
9 Why else may money prices give a poor indication of the value of goods and services ?
10 World League may touchdown in Glasgow
11 On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage .
12 We suggest that maternal undernutrition , by constraining fetal growth , may programme cardiovascular disease .
13 A large Emmenthal wheel may weight up to 80kg/200lb .
14 Weight limits are normally 2 kg although packages containing certain books of tapes may weight up to 5 kg .
15 What other kinds of messages may undergraduate curricula covertly or unconsciously transmit ?
16 A mother otter will bring a half-dead fish and give it to her young to play with in a pool so that they may practice the dives and swoops that are needed to be a successful underwater hunter .
17 Many large firms will have official anti-discrimination policies , although the personnel management at local level may practice discrimination , perhaps avoiding hiring black workers or laying them off first in time of recession .
18 Similarly , a solicitor overseas may practice in corporate form with foreign lawyers , whether RFLs or not , unless the corporate practice also wishes to practise in England and Wales , in which case the corporate practice would need to be an RB and have its registered office in England and Wales .
19 Seven hundred and forty which you may card to ignore , that there are some base dwellings .
20 No may car was n't stolen , it was worse .
21 The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do .
22 In safety and cost conscious laboratories , the manipulations of the blood sample involved in measurement of this non-specific test may outweight the apparent simplicity of the technique .
23 So that I may wheel and deal .
24 There is , however , somewhat more investigation now than in the past , and occasionally the teachers may wheel in a micro or a video player to provide a degree of reinforcement of learning in a given field .
25 It may distress you deeply , especially if you have never been in debt before , but do not succumb to anxiety .
26 It is mentioned here because encounters with such forms of suffering may distress practitioners so much as to block off their own capacity to deal sensitively and effectively with the people concerned .
27 Half-heard rows may distress them more ; the fantasy of what is going on downstairs may well be worse than the reality .
28 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 " .
29 The idea that science should be expressed in someone else 's language , the compulsory ‘ the test-tube was placed over the bunsen burner ’ , may disadvantage many pupils but especially girls if that other language is seen to be part of the world of men .
30 I now if I may President , turn to motion one one one A which amul er , amends rule A five .
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