Example sentences of "may [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 3 | Another sort of foreign or peripheral experience may exist for British writers even within London itself . |
| 4 | The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency . |
| 5 | If a substantial loss has been suffered you may be able to sue the vendor , and if you lack financial resources you may qualify for legal aid . |
| 6 | If when you pay prescription charges you think that you may qualify for free prescriptions , ask the chemist for a receipt form FP 57 ( EC 57 in Scotland ) . |
| 7 | Full-time students may qualify for generous discounts on fees . |
| 8 | Applicants with suitable experience in industry may qualify for special awards . |
| 9 | You may opt for extra services such as private banking , insurance planning and tax reviews . |
| 10 | FENDER Stratocaster , 1969 , refinished red , rosewood neck , no trem , £550 or may swap for good acoustic . |
| 11 | Secondly , while some theories may work for concrete subjects , they may not be as applicable to abstract concepts , such as ’ justice ’ , ’ insurance ’ or ’ business ’ . |
| 12 | Although these theories may work for artificial domains that are both small and concrete , extending them for large , real world vocabularies is difficult . |
| 13 | As past achievements are taken for granted and new challenges emerge , so voters may look for alternative leaders . |
| 14 | Either way , some employees may look for other jobs to avoid being made redundant or having to relocate . |
| 15 | ( a ) A plaintiff may claim for personal injuries and damage to property . |
| 16 | This may occur for various reasons ; the suspect may have died or be below the age of criminal responsibility , the victim may not wish to press charges or a witness may be unwilling , or unable , to give evidence or a person already in detention after conviction admits to further offences . |
| 17 | The conventionalist judge we just imagined , who worries whether deciding against Mrs. McLoughlin would be efficient in virtue of the precedents that mothers may recover for emotional injury sustained at the scene , has no need to look for any larger underlying principle " embedded " in these precedents or to defend one controversial view about the content of these principles . |
| 18 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 19 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 20 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 21 | It may call for assertive behaviour in dealing with others to get the matters cleared up . ’ |
| 22 | Overseas candidates may apply for financial support to the British Council and other bodies . |
| 23 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 24 | Students — proposing to work on appropriate topics may apply for British Academy or ESRC studentships with department support . |
| 25 | If you do not hold such a licence you may apply for Provisional LCG/PCV entitlement to be added to your ordinary licence provided it contains full car entitlement . |
| 26 | In exploring what this may mean for professional practice , it may be helpful to look at other attempts to reconstrue the nature of professional activity . |
| 27 | For demographic or statistical purposes the family needs to be specifically defined and the definitions may vary for different purposes . |
| 28 | the amount of your personal allowances may change for various reasons ; |
| 29 | Anthropologists , in turn , have attempted to argue that , for example , the transition from brideservice , in which labour is performed by the prospective groom , to bridewealth , where objects are given in exchange for the bride , marks a significant difference in the development of a phenomenon whereby objects may stand for human labour , with the implication that this is the first stage towards the conditions of property and alienation as we know them today ( Strathern 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Players with the same name on either side is comparatively common , especially in domestic cricket where two members of the same family may play for different teams , but two players on each side sharing surnames in a Test is one of those statistics whose arrival is well overdue . |