Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 2 | Buying process roles are considered , and attention is then turned to the issue of how suppliers may effectively sell products to Companies using multi-individual buying procedures . |
| 3 | Drug testing also may disproportionally victimise members of racial minority groups whose subcultures sanction casual marijuana smoking , reversing much of the progress that has been made in eliminating employment discrimination . |
| 4 | Once the invariant set is attracting , there is the possibility that the unstable manifold of the origin , which first strikes the return plane at R or L and which then wanders chaotically around the strange attractor forever , may eventually strike AD and then tend back towards the origin . |
| 5 | City Lives may eventually generate income as material is published — a book based on the interviews is already in the pipeline . |
| 6 | Some of these changes may eventually affect institutions comprising the monetary sector . |
| 7 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 8 | Fourthly , the pressures and experience of practice may eventually lead practitioners to condense — in psychological terms to ‘ chunk ’ — the decision-making process to such an extent that it appears from the outside to become a matter of intuition , flair , or artistry . |
| 9 | An actively functioning organisation tends to generate its own dynamism so that it may eventually follow procedures and enter into transactions far removed from those envisaged by the treaty . |
| 10 | Its applications include word processing , and it may eventually supersede Psion 's seven-year-old Organiser range of electronic notebooks , which has been losing momentum as the market for such gadgets has matured . |
| 11 | He was not predicting the end of American , the nation 's largest airline , but Mr Crandall said changing economics may eventually force AMR to sell parts of American to people who can make it profitable . |
| 12 | In this way they may successfully promote images of themselves as high spirited teenagers rather than as malicious delinquents . |
| 13 | The press may publish details of " spent " convictions , and if sued may successfully plead justification or fair comment , unless the plaintiff can show that the publication of this particular truth has been actuated by malice . |
| 14 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if one of the parties is actuated merely by hatred or vindictive spite he may be liable and if the others are aware of this and lend him their assistance they too may thereby become participants in the wrong . |
| 16 | We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord . |
| 17 | Skin preparation before surgery normally involves at least washing and may additionally include body hair removal to allow access to the operation site and also to reduce the risk of infection . |
| 18 | This always includes management , underwriting and selling of a bond issue , but may additionally entail arrangement of a swap , initial support for the price of the issue and an implicit commitment to make markets at a later stage . |
| 19 | So two questions need to be resolved on my analysis : first , is prevention ordinary treatment ? and , second , if preventive care depends on data drawn from special treatment , does this mean that special care may be undertaken only under conditions of limited , controlled research , which is what I suspect is what care of the VLBW baby really is , rather than by adopting the current haphazard approach which may wrongly dissipate resources ? |
| 20 | An article on the Caledonian Press , in the magazine it later published , attributed the initiative of the whole enterprise to her : " To whatever credit this may entitle her , Miss Mary Anne Thomson may justly lay claim . " |
| 21 | Such an application can only be made with the leave of the court , and the court may only grant leave if it is satisfied , inter alia , that ‘ there is reasonable cause to believe that if the court 's inherent jurisdiction is not exercised with respect to the child he is likely to suffer significant harm : ’ see section 100(3) and ( 4 ) ( b ) . |
| 22 | Expert witnesses may only express opinions on matters properly within their field of expertise . |
| 23 | The file may only contain NC details and a set of checking instructions . |
| 24 | She 's told him trying to get her back may only make life in Pakistan more difficult for her . |
| 25 | Improved forensic science standards and public sector laboratories equally available to the defence and prosecution — this may only go part way to ensuring an equality of arms between the prosecution and defence , which is essential in an adversarial system . |
| 26 | A solicitor may only give advice and assistance to a child in relation to civil proceedings with the prior authority of the Legal Aid Area Director ( reg 14(1) ) . |
| 27 | At all times , you may only allocate privileges which are a subset of your own . |
| 28 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |
| 29 | Some requesting States may only accept evidence taken in a particular way and the Convention tries to ensure that a request for a special procedure ( for example , for verbatim transcripts or , on the other hand , for a summary of the evidence in deposition form ; or for video-taped evidence ) will not be refused merely because it is inconvenient to the requested State . |
| 30 | Users may only add development versions . |