Example sentences of "may [verb] in some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An animal or human without functional lymphocytes as may happen in some disease states , is extremely vulnerable to overwhelming infection . |
| 2 | previous intercourse may have in some way altered her — set up antibodies of an unknown kind . |
| 3 | However , relatively small size of the samples may account in some measure for inconsistencies in the findings . |
| 4 | A man is not punishable for a serious crime committed by another unless he has actually instigated the commission of a crime , and then he will be punishable though the crime committed may differ in some degree from that which he instigated . |
| 5 | as if conscious of the damaging effect this group must have on the imagined relationship between the Poet and the Friend , damaging to the Poet and damaging to the reader 's view of both the Friend and the Poet ( ‘ why does he persevere ? ’ readers may ask in some irritation when confronted with such a catalogue of the Friend 's faults ) , Shakespeare sets matters even by writing what seems to be a related group where the Poet describes his own faults ( 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 ; 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 ) . |