Example sentences of "[det] may [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may not bother AXA , providing it is the dominant shareholder . |
| 2 | And yet there is something about him , a crude glint or an unexpected flicker in a cave , that may well betray genius . |
| 3 | That may well assist clients in that sort of case . |
| 4 | Some may still remember Christmas 1929 , when a whale washed ashore on rocks at Looe was cast back into the sea by the townsfolk . |
| 5 | Some may be docile , whereas others can be very aggressive and bossy towards all other horses , and a few may even mount mares that come into season . |
| 6 | In absolute terms this may simply represent trends in a growing economy . |
| 7 | But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations . |
| 8 | This may also encourage teams to think more about their kicking plays . |
| 9 | As a safety-valve mechanism as well as in the effort to use the peripheral labour resources productively , liberal economists such as Vera Lutz have recommended the encouragement of emigration to areas of labour-scarcity , but this may also produce problems of integration in the long term . |
| 10 | This may also help parents to be more aware of language and communication in ordinary , everyday settings and to notice when and on what occasions a child 's language seems to be improving . |
| 11 | This may not do justice to the proper degree of personal and professional self-regard which is expected of a head . |
| 12 | Furthermore , although smoking habits can be modified , this may not affect ulcer healing since the healing rate in ex-smokers was comparable with that in patients who continued to smoke . |
| 13 | This may not pose problems for the mutated creature , which may find plenty of potential partners ; they , however , will not recognise the deviant form as conspecific . |
| 14 | This may well reflect differences in case definition and the limitations inherent in their retrospective study , in which endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was not a routine investigation . |
| 15 | However , if the rent-seeking coalitions are extensive , this may well reduce wages elsewhere to the point where reservation wages are not met and unemployment and/or underemployment is commonplace . |
| 16 | P.P. , but not L.A.H. , was able to use an uncrossed pathway on the intact side ; this may possibly reflect differences in cortical binocularity between the two infants . |
| 17 | Improved forensic science standards and public sector laboratories equally available to the defence and prosecution — this may only go part way to ensuring an equality of arms between the prosecution and defence , which is essential in an adversarial system . |
| 18 | Where the capitalist state has to use force , the army or the police , then this is clearly a failure of hegemony , though where people are persuaded that the use of force is legitimate , this may actually increase hegemony . |
| 19 | This may therefore give rise to increased endogenous triglyceride synthesis and release in the form of VLDL . |
| 20 | One factor here is that we are increasing the number of referees we use outside Britain , and this may sometimes increase delay , although electronic communication is shrinking the globe fast . |
| 21 | Although the concentration and effort required to do this may sometimes produce fatigue , this is temporary and in no way signifies that sight will ‘ wear out ’ with use . |
| 22 | Infection may be initiated by eggs , passed by wild birds such as rooks and blackbirds ; these may also infect earthworms . |
| 23 | But all may not go Sir James 's way . |