Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A persistent and well-argued case has to be answered and this may eventually have some influence on a minister . |
| 2 | A similar result may be achieved if the practitioner is able to use the cash accounting scheme , although he may thereby defer any input recovery if he does not pay his suppliers promptly . |
| 3 | A student attending a well directed breast clinic may personally see this number of patients in less than a month and be taught to make an accurate clinical assessment . |
| 4 | In addition , the local authority has the power to determine the extent to which a parent may exercise his or her parental responsibility but may only exercise this power where necessary to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s33(3) ( b ) ( 4 ) ) . |
| 5 | Schema identification may only require some sample interviewing of different internal stakeholder groups . |
| 6 | The manager may only see each volunteer once a week and should the manager be out of the bureau on that occasion , two weeks may pass . |
| 7 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SPR relates . |
| 8 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SPR relates . |
| 9 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SPR relates . |
| 10 | You may only use this option to extend the range of modules to which this SPR relates . |
| 11 | You may only use this option to extend the range of modules to which this SPR relates . |
| 12 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SSR relates . |
| 13 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SSR relates . |
| 14 | You may only use this option to extend the range of module versions to which this SSR relates . |
| 15 | You may only use this option to extend the range of modules to which this SSR relates . |
| 16 | You may only use this option to extend the range of modules to which this SSR relates . |
| 17 | Male weavers assist females as the young hatch and the extent of their help to successive mates may greatly promote each female 's reproductive success . |
| 18 | And I 'll , I think I can , I have it on , on this right and road traffic accidents , may perhaps cover any traffic accidents namely if a plane crashes in the other night , erm , last Saturday night . |
| 19 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 20 | The Regulations for manual records make the position much easier to administer for the school though they may perhaps cause more family friction . |
| 21 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 22 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 23 | Now merely saying that is not evidence of any kind ( and may merely annoy those AI workers who program in languages other than LISP and do use flow-charts ) , but it does bring out something of the opposition between modules and levels that is the heart of the last part of this paper : flow-chart boxes are essentially separated from each other in ways like those that separate the modules of programs ; but program levels are not like that . |
| 24 | Scenes like this leading to brief encounters between couples who may scarcely know each other , can some say , cause confusion about sexual etiquette . |
| 25 | This increase in ‘ distress borrowing ’ may largely offset any decline in borrowing by other firms or individuals . |
| 26 | It is rather Britain that has chosen the Italian road and opted for a one-party state that may soon have more difficulty in government than it imagines . |
| 27 | Interestingly enough , having once entered the profession itself , age ceases to be a barrier , for actors of any age may easily teach each other something and share emotions honestly . |
| 28 | Local experiments with joint telephone services may shortly provide some indication as to the feasibility of a wider plan . |
| 29 | They hope it will prove so complex and costly to implement that the company may finally decide that mining in Mayo simply is n't worth the trouble . |
| 30 | While history teachers would wish to eschew the more brash sales methods they may nevertheless welcome some guidance on appropriate methods and strategies for promoting their subject . |