Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 2 | They may experience rather more difficulty in mounting a similar operation against Kilkenny , though . |
| 3 | If you can get hold of the rarer tritium you may liberate nearly 18 MeV through the reaction : A problem the problem in the attempts to fuse nuclei together and release their internal energy — is that all nuclei carry positive electrical charge . |
| 4 | This present dependence on others for the correction of minor matters may trigger more profound resentment in old people about the degree and nature of the dependence in which old age has placed them . |
| 5 | Big computers often achieve huge profit levels ; ‘ clones ’ of IBM computers may deliver more computing power for a significantly lower price . |
| 6 | Many disabled people , often on income support , may earn relatively low wages , and the consequences of a minimum wage would be a withdrawal of job opportunities which would probably affect them in particular . |
| 7 | In other cases , the Bank of England may influence very short-term rates through its operations in the discount markets . |
| 8 | The danger that , by trying to protect your future career prospects , you may throw away substantial cash sums in terms of severance payments is a real one , as the case of International Computers Ltd v Kennedy ( 1981 ) illustrates . |
| 9 | If there are statements by the Minister or other promoter of the Bill , these may throw as much light on the ‘ mischief ’ which the Bill seeks to remedy as do the white papers , reports of official committees and Law Commission reports to which the courts already have regard for that purpose . |
| 10 | However , the same symbols may convey quite distinct meanings in different cultural settings . |
| 11 | A law student who is a CAB trainee volunteer may not fear legislative tomes but may want considerably more training to cope with an emotional client and feel the need for deeper counselling skills than basic training allows time for . |
| 12 | Weaver birds reared in an incubator still manage to weave when they become adult , so clearly the basic skill is inherited , but it nonetheless requires practice to bring it to perfection and at first young male weavers may make comically ham-fisted versions — nests that are insecurely tied and fall off , others that are unevenly woven with some strips pulled tight and others left slack so that the result is misshapen . |
| 13 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
| 14 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 15 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 16 | Others may make more conventional protests but the pain looks like continuing for some time . |
| 17 | It follows that if adverse competitive feedback from output markets is weak , then cooperative joint ventures which include provisions for joint production and marketing may stimulate more successful innovations than those which are restricted to co-operative R&D alone . |
| 18 | They may include more major alterations , such as widening a door for a wheelchair . |
| 19 | The army may include as many Shamans as you wish within the usual limitations of points cost . |
| 20 | The army may include as many Orc or Goblin Big Bosses as you wish within the normal limitations of the points available . |
| 21 | The army may include as many Battle Wizards as you wish within the usual limitations of points costs . |
| 22 | Your army may include as many units of Pistoliers as you wish . |
| 23 | The army may include as many Heroes as you wish within the normal limitations of the points available . |
| 24 | The army may include as many Heroes as you wish within the normal limitations of the points available . |
| 25 | Voters may buy as many tickets as they wish , though no single voter may occupy more than one seat at a time . |
| 26 | Sometimes different sequences may need quite marked adjustment using filters and other devices to achieve the right harmonious effect . |
| 27 | More complicated fish may need more advanced systems . |
| 28 | Yet others may lack both religious belief and any experience that might make them dubious of their secularism . |
| 29 | Furthermore , as we have shown , there are wide variations in performance between different categories of NSE students , and it seems likely that the universities may pursue more conservative entrance policies with regard to non-traditional students than those pursued in the former polytechnic sector . |
| 30 | Unlike adults , infants may show very short delays between sleep onset and active sleep onset , sometimes going straight into active sleep . |