Example sentences of "[conj] it may [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |
| 2 | Or it may contain data such as an electricity meter reading . |
| 3 | Or it may give rise to a level of customer price-sensitivity which was hitherto absent in the target market segment . |
| 4 | When it strikes the surface it may either rebound , thus repeating its motion , or it may start saltation in another sand grain by impact . |
| 5 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 6 | The company with the contract may spend the money , or part of it , at its plants in other States , or it may subcontract part of the work out-of-State . ) |
| 7 | The perchlorate ion can occur as isolated , undistorted ions , or as distorted but essentially unattached ions , loosely attached through one or two oxygen atoms to one or two metal ions , or it may take part in hydrogen bonding to water molecules in hydrated salts . |
| 8 | As we have already seen ( p. 21 ) , this may be quite clear , or it may require decisions to be made about who will be included and who will be omitted . |
| 9 | It may be divided within itself ; it may lose bye-elections , or it may lack resolution or competence . |
| 10 | It expects to be the first constituency in the country to declare a result , it may be the first Liberal Democrat gain , or it may elect Britain 's first black Tory MP . |
| 11 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 12 | That comes from the se , the seabed churning it up but the sea is never still , it 's tossing and in , as the movement there underneath , although it may appear calm on the surface , but there are times when it 's not calm on the surface , it 's as rough on top as it is underneath . |
| 13 | The definition of price stickiness which we shall employ in this section does not in fact alter very much the policy implications of the model developed in the previous chapter , although it may have implications for the test of that model . |
| 14 | The professional debate needs to take place on different ground and the professional service , although it may have buildings among its outputs , will have to have deep human and social insights among its inputs . |
| 15 | On the other hand , GH5 is a eukaryotic protein that binds as a monomer , is not sequence-specific ( although it may have sequence preferences ) , and the structure of the DNA on binding to GH5 is unknown . |
| 16 | If a dispute arises , a court will probably not take account of the layout in construing the contract , although it may take account of headings and/or marginal notes . |
| 17 | Although it may require attendance before the district judge or taxing master , if it is a big case with costs of £10,000 — £20,000 , an extra 5 to 20 per cent is not to be thrown away lightly . |
| 18 | Most experts are hard pushed to explain why normal , healthy people should not take E. Some suggest that it may promote Parkinson 's disease — after all , the symptoms are fairly similar : short-term memory loss , the shakes , jaw-ache and constant chewing . |
| 19 | Since manufacture always has to be practised upon materials , its first implication is that it may show signs of the constraints these materials bring to the technological process ( Gombrich 1979 : 63–94 ) . |
| 20 | Impregnation under pressure has been advocated , but comparative tests have shown that it may damage pores in sandstones , particularly those lined with delicate clay minerals . |
| 21 | The local press in Malta have responded to growing international criticism of bird shooting by warning that it may deter tourists and hamper the country 's efforts to join the EC . |
| 22 | For Peckham , like many researchers , there is the additional concern that it may bring people more anxiety than help . |
| 23 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 24 | It is likely , in general , that advertising can build on the strengths , but that it may need improvements to the physical product to eliminate the weaknesses . |
| 25 | However , it does cause similar abnormalities in monkeys and there is evidence that it may cause blood vessels in the limbs to leak , which leads to severe damage of the surrounding cells . |
| 26 | So important is this consideration , and it would be perfunctory to regard it as mere vanity , that it may motivate performances to anonymous and usually unconcerned strangers . |
| 27 | When DCC was first localised to chromosome 18q , it was suggested that it may determine HNPCC ( hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer ) in the same way that APC determines FAP , since HNPCC shows linkage to chromosome 18 markers . |
| 28 | The US has signalled that it may apply trade sanctions against Taiwan and China , because of the trade in rhino horns and tiger bones for medicinal purposes [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 29 | The Commissioner discussed with me the statement you made to him , and we both feel that it may require action on a number of different fronts , and that it would , therefore , be helpful if our Police Liaison Group handled matters from the start . |
| 30 | Big buttons are easier than small ones , so it may save time as well as tempers if you replace small buttons with something a bit more chunky . |