Example sentences of "may often " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it can be particularly useful to have some background in this area , as a first job may often be that of an ‘ acting ASM ’ — particularly if you join a small touring group or a Theatre in Education company . |
| 2 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 3 | Their respective companies may often work in tandem . |
| 4 | Uncut salami keep perfectly at a cool room temperature and may often be found festooning a delicatessen 's ceiling . |
| 5 | I think that spaghetti should be thin and it may often be referred to as spaghettini — it 's much less like eating long worms ! |
| 6 | Those that do escape , or are released by compassionate fishing captains and crew , are often caught again , and the same dolphins may often be chased to exhaustion and encircled with tuna nets many times each fishing season . |
| 7 | Each has its proper sphere , but in course of time each of them extends its jurisdiction , so that the same matters may often be dealt with indifferently by any one of them . |
| 8 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 9 | At the time of writing the investor may often be uncertain where to turn . |
| 10 | Cases of problematic identification may often be just as revealing as cases where it is easier , since they raise political questions of why , at certain periods , portraits were more individualised or sculptural portraits were rare . |
| 11 | If we analyse the hoards of a particular region chronologically , it comes as no surprise that the periods with the largest concentration of hoards may often be those of great disruption and upheaval , such as wars . |
| 12 | Activation energies may often be obtained from rate measurements by using transition state theory . |
| 13 | At root , the educational changes with which we are engaged are fuelled by rapidly changing socio-economic patterns , and the particular political drive given to these at the moment is of much less importance ( in anything other than the short term ) than we may often feel to be the case . |
| 14 | While socioeconomic criteria may often exist in the minds of planners , there is an alarming failure to relate social and economic needs to acceptable forms of conservation . |
| 15 | Memes and genes may often reinforce each other , but they sometimes come into opposition . |
| 16 | A smallholder , by virtue of his small scale , may often be able to farm successfully in a manner defying the commercial conventions of the district , but such success will depend upon his grasp of the principles of soils , crops , and animal husbandry and a wise assessment of his land potential . |
| 17 | A horse may often indulge in mutual grooming with a companion horse , and he may also do this to a human he likes and trusts . |
| 18 | This may often be undesirable , but it is a fact of life . |
| 19 | Neither issue statistics nor the study of date labels in the books record in-house use , which may often be substantial . |
| 20 | That arbitration may often prove less attractive than was originally thought is shown by the case of Goodman v Winchester and Alton Railway plc ( 1984 ) . |
| 21 | You 'd start off with parliamentary business then have a review of foreign affairs , and very important departmental things may often have to be shoved out of the way to another Cabinet . |
| 22 | Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict . |
| 23 | Few headteachers , let alone governors and teaching staff in schools , will have come across many of the local-authority service departments mentioned above and hence may often find it difficult to appreciate and understand the outcomes of their systems and policy-implementation decisions . |
| 24 | The corporate objectives of managers may often appear in conflict with this and hence the tension between the two groups . |
| 25 | Both these very high counts were made from a boat rather than the shore , and experience suggests that counting from the shore in this harbour may often under-estimate numbers of Goldeneye . |
| 26 | But they 'll take stage victories , not the big prizes , and may often be deployed as super-domestiques to younger and more eager men . |
| 27 | Dashing to and from a busy job , frantically organising family commitments , domestic routines and social life to fit with working lives , we may often crave for the peace and simplicity of a solitary life . |
| 28 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 29 | The way in which they try to break those ties may often be brutal and very painful for the mother , but the instinct is right . |
| 30 | Unless parents are on their guard , they may often give the impression that they have withdrawn love and acceptance , just at the time when both are most needed . |