Example sentences of "[adj] may [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much Labour may talk about public expenditure , it normally makes such a mess of the economy that there is little benefit to be found in the longer run . |
| 2 | We 've increased our market shares virtually everywhere er two very strong er improvements Venezuela and Nigeria and the the initiative we 've taken with the Soviets to rework their wells er should be onstream by the end of the year and we 're hoping that may lead to other opportunities er , both in Russia and er and there 's the possibility from that of some business in Eastern Europe as well . |
| 3 | I say that this type of equipment is necessary because until we can be sure all major rockets and missiles have gone , there will always be a chance of such offensive capabilities ‘ falling into the wrong hands ’ and that may result in terrible consequences . |
| 4 | That may happen in other countries where the same situation applies . |
| 5 | Some may protect against sudden infant deaths ; others may add to risk . |
| 6 | Some may consist of correlational studies of behaviour in relation to social systems and ecology , perhaps combined with observational or experimental tests of the causality of the correlations found . |
| 7 | Some may feel coerced into company-centred behaviour , some may accept for instrumental reasons because there is no alternative while others may see the family analogy as the ideal structure for industrial relations . |
| 8 | Heterozygosity at codon 129 may lead to reduced penetrance of the mutation . |
| 9 | This may result in mental handicap . |
| 10 | This may result in increased sodium reabsorption with subsequent increased exchangeable body sodium ( De Chatel et al , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | As Furth ( 1982 ) points out , this may result in increased status differentiation within higher education between subjects or institutions ; it may also affect the ‘ hidden ’ curriculum of assumed values , perspectives and relationships ( Becker et al . |
| 12 | In addition the loud cries of harem males probably alert others to the presence of non-reproductive males and this may result in collaborative defence in driving them away . |
| 13 | If a fragment is stuck badly , a solvent should be used to loosen it again , but it is advisable not to use force for this may result in fresh breaks . |
| 14 | This may result in swift and brutal treatment of patients with complaints which are difficult to diagnose . |
| 15 | This may result in permanent damage being done to the previously friendly atmosphere of the classroom . |
| 16 | That this may lead to strange results can be illustrated as follows . |
| 17 | This may lead to personal collapse and destructive suffering , as noted by both Marris ( 1974 ) and Bettelheim ( 1970 ) . |
| 18 | If rates of sickness absence vary between individuals after taking account of the explanatory factors this may lead to extra variation ( overdispersion ) relative to that predicted from the Poisson model . |
| 19 | The sacral nerves which supply the genitalia are often involved in the disease process , and this may lead to sexual anaesthesia in the female and impotence in the male . |
| 20 | This may lead to huge bonuses being paid to the manager . |
| 21 | This may lead to blistering , and , if untreated , to necrosis and gangrene . |
| 22 | This may lead to catastrophic results in a few cases of late syphilis when the cardiovascular or nervous systems are involved . |
| 23 | For the project this may lead to suboptimal results and for the engineer to suboptimal progress in the company . |
| 24 | A second major source of infection for the very young animal is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of their dams and this may lead to clinical strongyloidiasis in foals and piglets in the first weeks of life . |
| 25 | Computer technology spreads into all sorts of other technologies and this may lead to patentable inventions , even though the computer technology itself is not new , if the application of the technology is new . |
| 26 | In exploring what this may mean for professional practice , it may be helpful to look at other attempts to reconstrue the nature of professional activity . |
| 27 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 28 | This may sound like standard Sunday Sport fare , but some people sincerely believe it , and more than you 'd think — the UFO business can be very big business indeed |
| 29 | This may sound like good news it you 're overweight , but please consult your doctor before taking cannabis as a part of a calorie controlled diet . |
| 30 | Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale . |