Example sentences of "they may [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a situation where two dissimilar languages with unequal status — for example , Standard English and French Creole — coexist in one community , the dynamic which evolves between them may in theory lead to any one of several different states . |
| 2 | They may of course enable people to live in the community longer before a prolonged and expensive period of institutionalized decline until death ; or they may fail to bring about any significant changes . |
| 3 | They may of course have been quite coincidental ; but already there was a link , was there not ? |
| 4 | But just as some marriages can at times feel suffocating , so they may at others feel uncomfortably distant . |
| 5 | Because it is so easy for women to slip into a shared area with each other , they may at times have a fear of doing so , in case they lose their individuality . |
| 6 | The same is generally true of diurnal raptors , although they can also take larger animals because with their stronger beaks and talons they are able to overpower and kill larger and more powerful prey , and they may on occasion hunt cooperatively ( Bednarz , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 8 | Commentators do not have the guaranteed ability to influence directly the competitive environment , although , of course , they may over time have a significant indirect influence . |
| 9 | They may in practice be the only things that do . |
| 10 | They seek friendship , fun , love — different sorts of goals — and , what is more important , they may in fact have more satisfying lives than the restless high achievers . |
| 11 | Importantly , they may in fact be helping you come to terms with the traumatic experience . |
| 12 | Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view . |
| 13 | Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery . |
| 14 | Accordingly they do not have to be rescued from death by a Saviour ; nor from Hell , for they are not judged at death to Hell or Heaven , but sent to ‘ the halls of Mandos ’ , from which they may in time return . |
| 15 | In order to achieve this they may from time to time have to change the form in order to preserve the meaning . |
| 16 | In the secondary sector they may from time to time be concerned with defined localities and with those young people who come to their attention from specific communities . |