Example sentences of "[adj] may [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may dredge up long-buried , uncomfortable emotions about his own childhood . |
| 2 | This may lead both author and reader into difficulties unless one point is emphasized and remembered : the terms " teacher " , " media specialist " , " educational technologist " , and " librarian " , are not necessarily mutually exclusive . |
| 3 | This may bring about degeneration of standards either through communication failures or because succeeding team members lack the pioneering zeal of the original staff . |
| 4 | This may explain why Držić was known as ‘ the Croatian Molière ’ . |
| 5 | This may explain why Gautier 's cat touched the mouths of the singers with her paw when they hit the particular note . |
| 6 | This may explain why candidiasis is so much more common in women generally , as well as showing how the Pill might influence candidiasis . |
| 7 | Local fluctuations in price are usually short-lived , and the result of a recent surfeit or scarcity of sales in a particular market ; this may affect either rugs in general or just specific groups . |
| 8 | On the other hand , if they restrict development , this may force up house prices and exclude lower-income local inhabitants anyway . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of these Rules , a body corporate may carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships provided that before commencing any such business such body corporate shall have been recognised by the Council as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of such services and provided that at all times while carrying on such business it remains so recognised . |
| 10 | There is an element of despair in the public 's reaction to the apparent spread of the disease , though the current political and moral debate about crime in general may hold out hope of an antidote . |
| 11 | The factors that cause stress can also cause clinical depression and , surprisingly perhaps , as with stress , changes in life which are happy and positive may bring on depression as well as those associated with sadness and loss . |