Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French national policy of encouraging younger people into farming may slowly lead to changing attitudes as older , more traditional ways fade . |
| 2 | If the unfallen state is being pushed further and further out of sight , it may eventually vanish into unreality . |
| 3 | If au else fails , a sector which is being undermined by imports may successfully apply for exemption from restrictions on the formation of a cartel to enable the decline of the sector to proceed in an orderly manner . |
| 4 | He may presumably take into account his previous experience of the particular applicants , if they have organised marches in the past . |
| 5 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 6 | Very often the vagina and part of the uterus can be separated into two parts by a fibrous partition and this may only come to light after difficulty when intercourse first takes place , or sometimes at the onset of pregnancy . |
| 7 | This may only cease on withdrawal of the drug . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) On the other hand , if the buyer says nothing about his future intentions this may merely serve to fuel rumours that a full bid is to be expected . |
| 9 | Recent moves to establish a world standard in memory cards suggest that this kind of publishing may soon extend to desktop computers of all kinds as well as handheld reference devices . |
| 10 | In summary the specificity of the P100/CREB interaction together with the reduction in detectable P100 following differentiation suggests that P100 may functionally interact with CREB during differentiation of F9 cells . |
| 11 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 12 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 13 | ‘ It is our view that where a person indicates that he will contest the allegation that [ section 7(5) ] ( a ) or ( b ) applies , a court may still remand in custody ( or grant bail ) pending trial of that issue ; the statement of the arresting constable 's ‘ reasonable grounds ’ may form the basis of the opinion of the justice of the peace . |
| 14 | In enclosed basins water-loading by lakes may further contribute to subsidence , though their effect will be far more ephemeral than sediment loading as they are likely to undergo repeated phases of growth and desiccation due to changes in climate . |
| 15 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
| 16 | A third party may similarly apply for leave to issue a fourth party notice , and so on ( Ord 12 , r 6 ) . |
| 17 | Client will provide to KPMG such information as KPMG may reasonably request from time to time in connection with the Offer and will not , without prior consultation and the written consent of KPMG ( such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) make or publish any announcement , public statement or document concerning the Offer whether before the announcement of or during the course of the Offer ; and |
| 18 | It is highly unlikely that research will do more than elaborate and refine matters upon which one may reasonably speculate from experience , from theories of behaviour generally , and from knowledge available from other areas , such as child abuse , or particular to ageing . |
| 19 | It is reckoned to be capable of cutting the death rate from fractures in older women by 60 per cent and may also protect against heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 20 | Finally , proteins may also serve as energy sources . |
| 21 | For instance , maternal psychiatric disorder may have a deleterious effect on the mother-child relationship not serious enough to produce a disorder in the child , but may also set in motion a chain of other , more powerful adverse events . |
| 22 | Provision of particular products for a local market will change the balance of land uses , and other factors may also alter over time . |
| 23 | When women have had many children , and are older , births of higher order may suffer not only the effects of the mother 's physical debilitation from excessive childbearing but , as noted above , in certain circumstances , they may also compete for sustenance unsuccessfully with older siblings . |
| 24 | Lack of privacy , loss of security and personal identity and isolation from family and friends may also contribute to anxiety . |
| 25 | Increased thromboxane A 2 production may also contribute to thrombogenesis in atherosclerotic vessels . |
| 26 | The recognition that there are authors who have not traditionally formed part of the literary ‘ canon ’ in the past may also lead to discussion about present-day social inequalities . |
| 27 | Chronic conditions such as diabetes and weakness after a stroke may also lead to incontinence . |
| 28 | Some medical treatments , such as partial gastrectomy , may also lead to osteoporosis . |
| 29 | Additionally , changes in the money supply not only affect individual holders of money , but may also lead to inflation and so inject a degree of instability into the economy . |
| 30 | In addition the possible abuse of monopoly power in any nationalised industry which is a monopoly may also lead to inefficiency . |