Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] may [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you may want a state-of-the-art aquarium . |
| 2 | You may choose to circle them very lightly with a soft pencil which can easily be erased later or you may use a highlighter pen — it rather depends on how precious the book is ( and , indeed , whether it belongs to you ) . |
| 3 | Or you may use a firm even ? |
| 4 | A glass or plastic aquarium is ideal , or you may have a large jar or plastic sandwich box that can be put to use . |
| 5 | Or you may have a man of medium height with relatively short arms . |
| 6 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
| 7 | Where a member of staff was previously satisfied with work practice in a section , he or she may become a discontented or frustrated worker , because expectations were increased , together with knowledge and skill , only to be stifled by lack of interest on return to work . |
| 8 | Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years . |
| 9 | You will not necessarily see your physiotherapist doing exactly the treatment techniques described below : she may use some of these techniques plus others she has devised herself , or she may use a completely different method . |
| 10 | If your symptoms are severe , he or she may prescribe a course of antibiotics which are designed to kill the bacteria . |
| 11 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 12 | Once a person is infected they may recover naturally or they may become a chronic carrier of the virus . |
| 13 | Or they may fire a warning shot . ’ |
| 14 | These contrary results using implied volatilities may be due to the form of option pricing model used , or they may reveal a difference between ex ante and ex post prices in measuring price volatility . |
| 15 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 16 | Well there may , well yes possibly , or they may have a much higher morale because they 've got a much more benevolent management style . |
| 17 | My constituents , er many of them will be concerned personally because they may have a relative in the army , now that we 've got ground troops out there , or they may have a relative who 's lived there or , or you know , God forbid , some of , some of them may have relatives who , who are hostages . |
| 18 | Or they may yield a piece from another planet , such as Mercury . |
| 19 | They may refuse to respond , on the grounds that they do not know what tiv means ( see Carey , 1978 ) ; they may ask what tiv means , and having been told to guess , offer a response ; or they may select a response without querying tiv . |
| 20 | They may relate new information to what has already been given in terms of causes ( so , consequently , because , for this reason ) or in time ( formerly , then , in the end , next ) or they may indicate a new departure or a summary ( by the way , well , to sum up , anyway ) . |
| 21 | Soil mixtures provide the means for some types of adhesion : an inorganic soil may form a matrix with another or it may form a discreet layer to which another soil might adhere if it can not adhere to the base substrate . |
| 22 | Or it may take a more structured approach drawn from cognitive therapy techniques . |
| 23 | First , it may be scattered and diffused among a variety of objects of devotion , as in polytheism ; or it may have a single focus , as in monotheism . |
| 24 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 25 | The doctor may refer the patient to a dietician for a specific regime , or he may prescribe a laxative to ease the congestion . |
| 26 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 27 | The GPC strategy is particularly useful when we need to pronounce unusual words such as " leonine " , " potamic " , or " tachistoscope " — words which are slightly unfamiliar visually , and which may have a weak lexical representation . |
| 28 | Canine relationships are also good and you may meet a long-haired mutt of doubtful pedigree but winning ways , who will prove a good chum . |
| 29 | And you may shed a tear or two — for the sheer joy of it all . |
| 30 | Keep an eye open and you may spot a barnacle goose or a Bewick 's swan . |