Example sentences of "may [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Althusser seems to imply that different histories may range through different modes of production , at other times it appears that they are specific to each , an effect of the overdetermination of the social formation . |
| 2 | The outcomes may range from complete correction to the professional satisfaction of the engineer , to an adjustment to the areas of responsibility between the parties which may result , in extreme cases , in the engineer contracting out of further responsibility or abandoning his or her engagement . |
| 3 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 4 | According to Jespersen ( 1933 ) , the imperative is used in requests , which according to circumstances may range from brusque commands to humble entreaties , the tone generally serving as a key to the exact meaning . |
| 5 | The plans to deal with existing problems may range from straightforward co-ordination of arrangements for a person leaving hospital , to a much more complex plan with the social worker in the case manager/key worker role ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) , as will be described . |
| 6 | The purpose of an experiment in fluid mechanics may range from direct verification of a theory ( as in Figs. 11.2 , 15.12 and 17.19 ) to a general exploration of the phenomena that occur in a given situation . |
| 7 | These may range from circular huts set in a farmyard , with small closes dating from the Ornamental Horizon of the Middle Bronze Age , through the hill-fort ‘ village ’ of the Iron Age , first-century Roman villa with outbuildings , to much later structures up to , and sometimes including , the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Such arrangements may range from full partnership down to " strategic alliances " designed for pooling resources and sharing expenses and generally spreading the risk between the member firms . |
| 9 | The following diagram illustrates how Sciences may relate to other areas of the catalogue . |
| 10 | Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years . |
| 11 | Other queries may relate to specific attributes of the spatial entities , or to combinations of these attributes , to the exclusion of any locational property . |
| 12 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 13 | Core skills are not intended to be the subject of academic studies , although they may relate to academic subjects such as English , mathematics , computing , science and social studies . |
| 14 | Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which … |
| 15 | The reasons given for rejecting this paper are that the brain may compensate for poor hearing by enhancing hearing in the treated ear , resulting in an overestimate of the likely effects of treating both ears . |
| 16 | Outside is a lovely garden where you may eat in fine weather , and occasionally the hotel offers zither music during the evening . |
| 17 | After emigration , mononuclear phagocytes may remain as immobile tissue macrophages for several months until they are stimulated or activated . |
| 18 | Moreover , different configurations may arise at various times . |
| 19 | Both types of mutation — harmful or useful — may arise at different rates depending on stresses inherent in the environment . |
| 20 | Consent problems may arise with certain kinds of patients . |
| 21 | 2 That this technology may have scale economies which in turn may arise through fixed costs but not sunk costs . |
| 22 | To contribute to the development of richer economic theories that take simultaneous account of a number of issues that may arise in particular contexts . |
| 23 | The default set of reference resolution rules in CLE-1 follows Hobbs ' pattern , but this set can easily be respecified to reflect the ordering argued for below ( or , indeed , to deal with the special circumstances that may arise in particular applications ) . |
| 24 | Talk of the ambiguities which may arise in sexual situations is largely irrelevant in a discussion of the rights and wrongs of Morgan . |
| 25 | Complex partial seizures usually arise from the temporal lobe , but up to 30% may arise from other sites , in particular the frontal lobe . |
| 26 | Ambiguity in written English may arise from different words having the same spelling ( homonyms ) or the same word having a number of meanings . |
| 27 | Ministers and perhaps civil servants may think of local authorities as useful agents for carrying out policies decided nationally in government departments and approved by Parliament . |
| 28 | and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive . |
| 29 | Any effort to admit the female in her explicit femaleness , as one who menstruates , gestates and lactates , will create psychic time-bombs that may explode with incalculable force . |
| 30 | Sometimes , the estate agent 's particulars are not very explicit about what is included and what is not , and in any event , sellers may change their minds , or may throw in certain items such as carpets and curtains in the course of the negotiations to settle a price . |