Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ' ’ This may fool it into thinking you are not afraid and therefore more powerful than it is . ’ ‘ |
| 2 | Negative attitudes are sometimes rationalised and disguised as concern , emphasising that disabled people may damage themselves by undertaking such demanding work ( Safilios-Rothschild , 1976 ; French , 1986a ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps we do not yet have the tools for a scientific resolution of this task and this is where Utopian thinking may aid us in identifying our political goals . |
| 4 | Your long-term goals may make it worth sacrificing your two weeks in Turkey for a training course . |
| 5 | To inform them of who to contact if they have a problem plus benefits , discounts etcet etcetera , with particular emphasis on accrual benefits that may be lost if membership lapses , and the possible mention of loyalty benefits that may assist them in helping to recruit and retain other members . |
| 6 | In this factsheet we suggest possible sources of help for services or improvements to you home ; suggest ways of finding companions or live-in help ; and list some benefits which may assist you in paying for help . |
| 7 | Some fire brigades may bill you for coming out to help rescue an animal . |
| 8 | If the review is upwards only he is highly unlikely to want to initiate the review himself , but the uncertainty of not knowing what his rent is may hamper him in conducting or investing in his business , or in disposing of his lease . |
| 9 | 36 , or relating to protection of the environment or the working environment ’ shall notify such provisions to the Commission , and the Commission may confirm them after having verified that they are not a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States . |
| 10 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
| 11 | They may live far from their nearest bureau and the expense or lack of public transport may prevent them from coming . |
| 12 | The presence of may prevent us from drawing such a conclusion . |
| 13 | But I 'm afraid they may accuse me of lying . ’ |
| 14 | Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’ |
| 15 | Birds may use it for rearing their young , or other small animals may come to live on it . |
| 16 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 17 | A principle of inquiry can not be something that may keep us from recognizing a clear and settled conception . |
| 18 | Neuroscientists may amuse themselves by thinking up objections to homologies between brainstem structures , but this is n't pursued that seriously . |
| 19 | If he can not lift the leg unaided , he may move it by clasping his hands together just below the knee , holding the shin bone firmly , and using his hands to lift the leg up , shifting his weight sideways towards his unaffected side as he does so . |
| 20 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |
| 21 | Apart from being cold enough to remove your skin , there is a sinister tunnel sweeping water away on some underground journey , and although a metal grid may stop you from joining it , I have visions of diving in naked with a happy yell , only to emerge in the urinals of the aluminium smelter in Fort William . |
| 22 | You will think me discourteous , but perhaps I may excuse myself by explaining that it is the discourtesy of grief . ’ |
| 23 | Vietnam 's withdrawal is the best opportunity he will have to lead his country once more , but he may botch it by taking one political twist too many . |
| 24 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |
| 25 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |
| 26 | I may unnerve you by saying that many of us err in this . |
| 27 | What may lead one towards supposing , despite this , that the bar 's coming out was an effect of putting in the coin , is a certain fact . |
| 28 | And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom . |
| 29 | In cases of doubt , a trustee may protect himself by obtaining , at the cost of the trust property , the direction of the court , and the Trustee Act 1925 , s. 61 , had enabled the court to relieve a trustee , who has acted honestly and reasonably and ought fairly to be excused , from liability for breach of trust . |
| 30 | This is an unpleasant discovery which may shock you into giving up and returning to the relative comfort of Stage 1 . |