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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Big computers often achieve huge profit levels ; ‘ clones ’ of IBM computers may deliver more computing power for a significantly lower price . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In other cases , the Bank of England may influence very short-term rates through its operations in the discount markets . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , the same symbols may convey quite distinct meanings in different cultural settings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
| 10 | Others may make more conventional protests but the pain looks like continuing for some time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They may include more major alterations , such as widening a door for a wheelchair . |
| 13 | Sometimes different sequences may need quite marked adjustment using filters and other devices to achieve the right harmonious effect . |
| 14 | More complicated fish may need more advanced systems . |
| 15 | Yet others may lack both religious belief and any experience that might make them dubious of their secularism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Unlike adults , infants may show very short delays between sleep onset and active sleep onset , sometimes going straight into active sleep . |
| 18 | Similarly , the changing of domestic roles proves complex : while some wives may welcome more domestic help from their retired husbands , others will resent it as an intrusion into their sphere of control in daily life . |
| 19 | Later in your pregnancy you may feel more comfortable eating smaller meals more often instead of large , heavy ones . |
| 20 | While the basic aim of a service should be to provide people with ordinary homes of their own , there are many former long-term hospital patients who would not wish to live alone after many years of living in close proximity to other patients ; such people may feel more comfortable living in a three- or four-person flat or house , or perhaps in a sheltered group of flatlets where communal dining rooms and recreational facilities echo the arrangements in ordinary sheltered accommodation for elderly people . |
| 21 | Since the conductivity is very low , precise techniques would need to be developed for its measurement , which may present very difficult problems to be overcome , but the research programme would be complete once the relevant information had been obtained . |
| 22 | AT&T and the Babies do not compete on the provision of basic telephone services , since under the terms of the break-up AT&T may carry only long-distance calls , the Baby Bells only local ones . |
| 23 | Of course , being so intimately concerned with the notion of travel , a degree of mobility may bring more rapid promotion opportunities but unlike other organisations of a similar size , there is no pressure here to relocate — should you decline a move because you are not ready to be uprooted , you will find that your reasons are respected and your prospects unaffected . |
| 24 | Both systems may bring fairly proportional results — by chance . |
| 25 | Coins may also be acquired from various sources ; local finds or gifts of collectors may give very different pictures . |
| 26 | Chemically , feldspar overgrowth cements are commonly the pure sodium or potassium feldspar end members and are rarely calcic ; clear overgrowth cements may surround partially altered feldspar grains ( e.g. Heald , 1956 ) . |
| 27 | TERRY Denison may quit as chief coach after Britain 's swimmers sank without trace here in Barcelona . |
| 28 | Those who play aleatory music ( where the composer may use only graphic signs , or may suggest certain note-groups , to be played in a certain way , or even perhaps as the player wishes ) may also have a stock-in-trade of musical gestures which will help them produce a convincing result in any situation . |
| 29 | A light prism gives a practical example of how the same object viewed from different standpoints gives different images : one person may see only white light while others see all the colours of the rainbow , yet both perceptions are true to reality and not figments of distorted imagination . |
| 30 | This has had the effect of making local authority housing even more subject to central scrutiny , and the current system of central government constraints has severely limited new council house provision in rural areas since 1980 , particularly as the new proposals may see more expensive building in rural areas as inappropriate . |