Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , vision may arise primarily through introspection or interaction , or through the combination of the two . |
| 2 | Where the cost breakdown is sophisticated , problems may arise both on site and in the office . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | If they help to make conditions in Cuba less awful , Fidel Castro may stay longer in power . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | People may act differently in response to changes in taxation than to variations in earnings per se . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Anorectal complications of portal hypertension may occur early in life and in a recent study of children 4.7% presenting with bleeding oesophageal varices had symptomatic rectal varices or haemorrhoids . |
| 20 | This may stem partly from ignorance about specific techniques but some of it goes back further to past failures at school with arithmetic . |
| 21 | A creditor may vote either in person or by proxy . |
| 22 | Note that if STP and the several temporal phases of LTP ( see Box 1 ) are expressed at different loci , then changes in quantal parameters may alter progressively with time . |
| 23 | Much depends on the determination of workers to defend jobs and conditions , and factors like this may alter considerably over time . |
| 24 | Hypochlorite is a powerful oxidant that may react directly against membrane associated targets or indirectly by forming less reactive chloramines that may diffuse across the membrane and attack cytosolic components . |
| 25 | This is why , as people get older , they may decrease dramatically in height . |
| 26 | Right okay what I this will be the first time I 've had a look at er a little bit more of your background so erm while I 'm doing that , although you may have already inside information , I I guess you 'd seen the brochure before had you ? |
| 27 | Many commentators have noted the fact that the small plot of land may produce more per acre than the large , because of necessity it is cultivated more intensively ( see CEPAL review 1982 for example ) . |
| 28 | I express to you the most earnest desire of my heart to be that prosperity and success in social and moral improvement may attend increasingly from year to year the progress of this library . |
| 29 | A colour pattern often consists of an epidermal or subepidermal ground colour ( which may fade rapidly after death ) and overlying areas of more permanent cuticular pigmentation . |
| 30 | Furthermore , as in the pheromone experiment , either sex may respond favourably to sandalwood 's seductive aroma ; or conversely , respond with an ‘ ugh ! ’ |