Example sentences of "but [pron] may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not a dog , ’ she said sharply , baring her teeth , ‘ but I may well bite . |
| 3 | There was a pause and before Wilson could think how to reply , she added , ‘ But I may never see him as a man , ’ in a low voice . |
| 4 | In this context we may distinguish ( i ) the impartiality which is part and parcel of making moral or legal-judgments on the basis of formulating universal rules permitting or prohibiting certain types of conduct as distinct from making decisions only about particular persons and particular occasions : the impartiality not just of universalisability but of rules which actually are to be universalised ; ( ii ) the impartiality of being a non-involved person which is particularly relevant to the position of the person who is applying legal or moral rules to particular circumstances and which is directly to do with the characteristics of the judge who according to this standard must have no personal interest in the outcome of the case , but which may also be relevant in the process of legislation since legislators may have particular and personal interests in the outcome of the legislation in question ; ( iii ) there is the idea of impartiality as a norm of moral and judicial reasoning which has to do with giving due consideration to all relevant factors , a practice which may further but is not guaranteed by impartiality of the first two types . |
| 5 | The pluralist description of the social order with its myriad political institutions , groups , and actors all competing , albeit unequally , for power treats the media as a set of institutions which may act independently in society but which may also be deployed by powerful groups . |
| 6 | After the success of his two philosophical titles from Thorsons we have an autobiography which Warner seems to be playing quite softly , but which may well take off . |
| 7 | The industry deserves better consideration and the country needs the benefits that recovery and growth in our industry could bring but which may well be sabotaged by inappropriate Government cuts . |
| 8 | As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years . |
| 9 | There are always a priori assumptions of what we call an ideological nature , which are not amenable to proof , but which may helpfully be amenable to explicit and prior communication . |
| 10 | Still less could it have been foreseen that Palestinians and Israelis would find themselves facing one another across a Madrid conference table in the 1991 encounter which provided most of the disappointments predicted by numerous observers at the time , but which may still prove to contain the seeds of a more fruitful sequel in the future . |
| 11 | Conversely , he under privileges aspects which are not characteristic , but which may conceivably be important in other musics : among them ‘ sound ’ , motoric stimulus , nuances of pitch inflection . |
| 12 | Now at the back of the re , rest of that packet , erm , in front of the vinyl cardboard but you may already have extracted this , you 'll find two sets of pre-printed labels . |
| 13 | If so , he will advise you what to do , but you may also find it helpful to obtain a copy of a booklet entitled Caring for the widow and her family , published by CRUSE ( The National Organisation for Widows and their Children , Cruse House , 126 Sheen Road , Richmond , Surrey TW9 1UR ) , which gives a great deal of useful information on all these subjects and many others connected with widowhood . |
| 14 | When hearing loss is severe , the written word is your main ally , but you may also need the facility of one person who can make sure that you do not miss what is said . |
| 15 | Nevertheless his career reveals the strong point of a ‘ heroic ’ view of evil , the weak point of a Boethian one : if you regard evil as something internal , to be pitied , more harmful to the malefactor than the victim , you may be philosophically consistent but you may also be exposing others to sacrifices to which they have not consented ( like being murdered by Viking ravagers or , as The Lord of the Rings was being written , being herded into gas-chambers ) . |
| 16 | You may think you are a good enough driver to go over the speed limit , but you may also realise that a world in which everyone drove very fast might be a little on the dangerous side . |
| 17 | But you may also just find , as I did , that the experience of shutting up and listening is extraordinarily refreshing . |
| 18 | Under these circumstances , all you can do is try to re-align the board on the artwork and expose it for a further period , but you may well have to scrap that attempt and start again with a freshly-coated board . |
| 19 | If you are a community nurse , you will obviously not give all your clients with diabetes their morning insulin at the same time , but you may well attend to those needing insulin before going on to visit people with other needs . |
| 20 | As we said in the Introduction , this is a little artificial , but you may well have to do this kind of work yourself at some time . |
| 21 | I 'll explain it to you , if you 've got to stand in a circle because you ca n't see from over there you wo n't actually ever do this yourself , but you may well see it being done , in fact you probably will . |
| 22 | You may obviously you 're going to have two payments coming in but you may well find that you know they 're no longer on the same sort of day . |
| 23 | But you may well catch cold at it , anyway , marrying such a woman . ’ |
| 24 | It is unlikely these days that you would want a new back boiler to provide all your central heating needs , but you may well want to replace one which provides domestic hot water . |
| 25 | Using a variation ( possessive it 's ) means that you are asserting your right to your own language ; but you may well also alienate your reader , who might decide that , at least in her or his view , " you ca n't write properly " . |
| 26 | Well that will seem to me to be a bit more but obviously it 's up to you but it may not quite work out as neatly as erm but you may well like to think about the role of women as perceived , the way they treat men and relationships . |
| 27 | Basically it is good to have them , but you may never need them ! |
| 28 | You would have to provide room for the Zs , but you may never get one . |
| 29 | At last the baby is born but you may still have to stay in hospital overnight . |
| 30 | But you may still have to go ten miles |