Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Transparency in this situation may relate both to bids and offers made , and the historic prices of trades executed . ) |
| 2 | Indeed , any one molecule of CFC may remain aloft for decades . |
| 3 | For example , vision may arise primarily through introspection or interaction , or through the combination of the two . |
| 4 | Where the cost breakdown is sophisticated , problems may arise both on site and in the office . |
| 5 | This may arise even in circumstances where there is a knowledge of BSL and therefore some way of encoding its meaning . |
| 6 | Further problems may arise again on return to Britain as the pressure for places in the more popular independent or state schools makes it increasingly difficult for the expatriate to find suitable educational facilities for children . |
| 7 | The court must bear the difficulties which may arise then in mind when deciding whether to order a payment at all and , if so , from whom ( Breeze v McKennon & Son ( 1985 ) 32 Build LR 41 ) . |
| 8 | If they help to make conditions in Cuba less awful , Fidel Castro may stay longer in power . |
| 9 | We may think here of schools ' attempts to improve buildings and equipment in order to accommodate proposed changes in the content or process of teaching . |
| 10 | Utah 's renowned salt flats are disappearing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , and may disappear completely within decades . |
| 11 | They may behave differently towards parents who seem repelled by their efforts , and in learning to control may also learn to withhold . |
| 12 | Due to these different perspectives these managers may behave differently towards subordinates . |
| 13 | The pluralist description of the social order with its myriad political institutions , groups , and actors all competing , albeit unequally , for power treats the media as a set of institutions which may act independently in society but which may also be deployed by powerful groups . |
| 14 | People may act differently in response to changes in taxation than to variations in earnings per se . |
| 15 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 16 | She may feel more in control if she takes her bill herself to the Department of Social Security , having been guided by the adviser that she should ask them about the ‘ fuel direct ’ scheme that will debit her benefits automatically and prevent disconnection . |
| 17 | The capacity of the gastric mucosa to protect itself from injury is determined by many factors , and aggravation of experimental injury as seen after sensory nerve ablation , may result either from impairment of mucosal defence or retardation of rapid repair or both . |
| 18 | Also , any core may consist largely of iron , or of iron-rich compounds such as iron sulphide ( FeS ) and various iron oxides ( FeO , Fe 2 O 3 ) , or of some mixture of iron and iron-rich compounds . |
| 19 | The level of service offered varies according to the expatriates ' needs and may consist simply of handouts — printed property sheets with information of what is available . |
| 20 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 21 | The supervisory authority is not able to grant an exemption from the information required , but may do so in respect of additional information that it has requested . |
| 22 | There is a distinction to be drawn between an evacuation of the kind that we may see tonight in Dubrovnik and an interdiction naval force designed to prevent , for example , the shelling of Dubrovnik by Yugoslav gun boats . |
| 23 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 24 | PR may work well in times of prosperity but the real test for a constitutional system comes in times of turbulence , social change , and economic slumps . |
| 25 | Children can not wait to be a year older ( ‘ I am five and three-quarters ’ ) , adolescents dream of marriage and careers , and people experiencing pressures of midlife may look forward to retirement and grandparenthood . |
| 26 | I am lonely yes , but my loneliness is the price I pay in order that the people of the World may look ahead to peace and freedom and to a decent standard of living for their children . ’ |
| 27 | Septic complications after the introduction of P aeruginosa at ERCP are well described and may occur even in patients who do not have biliary or pancreatic disease . |
| 28 | They might appear there when normal syntax has to be subordinated to the exigencies of poetry ( or perhaps we should say " of unskilful poetry " ) and they may occur postnominally in prose in one or two special constructions . |
| 29 | Again , the deposition of pollen is timed to suit its germination in that stigmas and anthers are synchronized , whereas the site for germination of a seed may occur randomly in time as well as space in the regenerating gaps of forest . |
| 30 | There is some evidence that a decrease in free volume ( ie shrinkage ) may be delayed in the glassy state and thus may occur gradually with polymer ageing . |