Example sentences of "may get " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , you have to ensure that you have at least two trees in flower at the same time so that they can pollinate each other , otherwise you may get no fruit at all . |
| 2 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 3 | If the fields below happen to be large , they may get down safely , but a safe landing is often due to luck rather than to good judgement . |
| 4 | Pound there , it is plain — for instance , in his comment on Hilaire Belloc — is as unwilling as any Marxist to abstract a question like the proper language for poetry from the whole social matrix and milieu in which such a subject may get itself debated . |
| 5 | There are fears of family life going down the drain , as staff may get only two complete weekends off in seven . |
| 6 | Nasser Hussain may get in on the strength of his fielding . |
| 7 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 8 | If your band 's sound is less strongly defined , then you may need some help to dream up a style and image Libraries are a good source of inspiration , and by browsing through the books and magazines on fashion you may get some ideas . |
| 9 | They may get to one of these people if they get a record deal without a manager , and if their record is a mega hit , but that is very unlikely . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that there is a real risk that an imaginative child may get the impression that a bit of palm is in some way a magical charm , ’ he considered . |
| 11 | News in brief : Havel may get presidency . |
| 12 | Havel may get presidency . |
| 13 | She has the ability and attitude that have raised expectations that British tennis may get the player of star quality it so desperately needs . |
| 14 | Although they may get flattened by a rainstorm , they quickly recover once the sun comes out . |
| 15 | Linkage may get Mr Hussein out of Kuwait , but recovering Kuwait , though welcome in itself , is only part of what the world needs to achieve in the Gulf . |
| 16 | The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs . |
| 17 | As times get harder , the Social Democrats may get their chance . |
| 18 | But there are signs that East Germans may get hard D-marks for their funny-money Ostmarks even earlier , as a nice surprise before the summer holidays . |
| 19 | In Romania , the government led by the reform communists who overthrew the dictatorship of Ceausescu has made so many mistakes that it may get a bad surprise in the parliamentary and presidential elections on May 20th . |
| 20 | When changes made to the scheme in 1990 are fully phased in , families may get more than $2,000 a year . |
| 21 | Regionals tend to have natural franchises and are likely to get the best pickings of whatever expanded powers commercial banks may get out of the pending reform of the financial system , once Congress gets round to letting it happen . |
| 22 | So next time Circle K re-equips , instead of an Escort for the price of a Granada , it may get plane for the price of a bicycle . |
| 23 | Employees may get pick of the perks |
| 24 | Wrangham thinks that where there are no secondary resources , competition for the main resource may get so high that solitary feeding becomes essential . |
| 25 | If that happens , it may get messy . ’ |
| 26 | We may get a reaction from them , in a day or two . ’ |
| 27 | People will probably go anyway , Sharp adds , ‘ but we may kill a few on the way , and we may get some wet noodles back . ’ |
| 28 | Resolution 242 may get them around the same table but it leaves the real bones of contention untouched . |
| 29 | Without the authority to initiate change , more harm than good would be done by reforms which may get stuck half-way , and which would be resented by heads and teachers in all the schools . |
| 30 | He may get muddled , and perhaps put dirty clothes into the oven instead of the washing machine , or food into the dustbin instead of the saucepan . |