Example sentences of "may come across " in BNC.

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1 You may come across it when you tap Ctrl+Pg Dn to move to the bottom of a document or if you tap Ctrl+Enter by accident .
2 Since a high proportion of residents in Homes are frail , you may have to assist with nursing care and may come across conditions which you may not have met before in elderly people .
3 ‘ I do n't think Laura is aware of racial prejudice yet , ’ says John , ‘ although she may come across it in the future .
4 You may come across central venous pressure lines on a general surgical ward .
5 Any other and I put diabetes in there asthma is an illness which erm you may come across , it 's the clogging up , it 's something irri irritates the tubes , the windpipe and the bronchial tube and the person can not draw air in , well they can draw it in but they ca n't get it out and they 're , and they 're trying very hard and the noise , has anybody heard anybody with an asthma attack ?
6 In the course of the evening or the next few days you may come across some new information or viewpoint relating to the lecture that you attended .
7 We ought perhaps , however , to add a remark or two about the cornet , as the student may come across scores into which that instrument has found its way ( e.g. Bizet 's Carmen , Stravinsky 's Petrushka , Vaughan Williams 's ‘ London ’ Symphony , Elgar 's Cockaigne Overture ) .
8 Apart from such Helplines , David Wilson also offered to provide advice on situations CE Staff may come across involving adults in direct touch with children and young people where there is the slightest concern about a specific group or an individual in a group with whom staff work .
9 In addition to court rolls the family historian may come across rentals which give the names of tenants and the rents that they paid each year at Ladyday ( 25 March ) and Michaelmas ( 29 September ) .
10 You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening .
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