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permission: the agent is allowed to complete the action of the main verb: 'The students may check books out for two weeks'.
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possibility: the speaker is indicating that the situation described in the proposition is possibly true. Some markers with this meaning also indicate future time: 'He may arrive late because of the weather; It may snow again tomorrow; She could have already taken it'.
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Simple sentences
Come what may, I'm ready for it.
May I have something to drink?
A moment's hesitation may cost a pilot his life.
May I see the wine list?
You may come if you like.
I can't find my glasses. I may have left them behind on the train.
No one is waiting at the bus stop. We may have missed the bus.
However busy you may be, you must do your homework.
You may choose whichever book you like.
You may choose whichever you want.
The story may sound strange, but it is true.
Jane may be playing tennis with my brother.
I may give up soon and just nap instead.
I may be antisocial, but it doesn't mean I don't talk to people.
It may freeze next week.
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.
May I ask a question?
May I talk to Ms. Brown?
Hey, I may have no money, but I still have my pride.
The data suggest that the optimum length of a lecture may be 30 instead of 60 minutes.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
In a town you may pass unnoticed, whereas in a village it's impossible.
You may as well follow his advice.
You may make use of his library.
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You may request anything of me, princess.
I think there may be some connection with the top level.
I think he may be planning to kill Euphemia. aren't you?
We may never know.
You may not.
May- And I'm not your best friend!
Elders, you may as well pack all your things.
We'll take you on a journey to faraway planets, where amazing creatures may roam the lands.
The mission, called Kepler, may not help us find extra terrestrial life but it could help us find its home.
He thinks these acid pits may be one of our biggest clues to understanding how life emerged on Earth.
This revolutionary discovery is opening us up to the possibility that life may exist in places we never thought possible.
There's no telling what kind of life may exist in Europa's ocean.
Life in the universe may be incredibly diverse.
The building blocks of life on our planet may have originated elsewhere and were transported here when a meteorite collided with Earth.
We came here in May 1943.
In the meantime, Henk van de Huist received an invitation from Oxford to give the famous Halley Lecture in May 1953.
He may be the love of your life.
May Allah protect you.
May Allah cure you.
May He protect you.
May Allah look kindly upon you.
May Allah watch over you and your family.
May Allah guide you towards fair and honorable peace.
My Lord, the duke of Aumale told me to inform you that he captured Abd el-Kader's smalah at noon on May 16.
May Allah watch over your family and bring you a lot of happiness.
But the hardest thing to get past the screws is peanuts, or anything that contains peanuts, or anything that even MAY contain peanuts.
Right - there may be a solution but we have to act now.
We may be able to get you out.
And, too, as I leave this world I may lose all my memories of you.
May I inquire.
If I may ask you an abrupt question would you happen to know of a man called Miyamoto Musashi?
It may be.
Bone marrow may have seeped out of the break and migrated.
May I get you some coffee, Mr. Young?
May I just say this is an adorable red?
May I be so bold as to inquire your availability and whereabouts tomorrow afternoon?
So, may I ask who's crazy now?
Please, sir, may I have some pills?
You may already know this one.
News and current affairs
Yet 2008-2009, like 1989, may very well correspond to an epochal change, whose unfolding consequences will be felt for decades.
NEW YORK - On May 8, 1945, when World War II in Europe officially ended, much of the world lay in ruins.
At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
That this Arab renaissance - to use the phrase of the great Palestinian scholar George Antonius - did not take place may have been Eban's greatest disappointment.
Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
How it is received may not only determine the state of Israel-Palestine negotiations for a considerable time to come, but Saudi Arabia's domestic peace as well.
Rather, it increases the prospects of corrupt leakage that may allow terrorist groups access to nuclear weapons.
Now it hints that it may resume enrichment, and recent press reports about the imports from Pakistan suggest Iran failed to disclose everything to the IAEA.
Iran may ask what right others have to demand that it forego nuclear weapons.
The patent system may even have adverse effects on innovation, because, while the most important input into any research is prior ideas, the patent system encourages secrecy.
In late May, the international community will have a chance to begin implementing these ideas at the WHO World Health Assembly - a moment of hope for public health around the world.
But, without further profound political and economic integration - which may not end up including all current eurozone members - the euro may not make it even to the end of this decade.
Of course, individual developing countries may be spared.
Yet, history is unfair, and the US, despite its greater responsibility for today's global crisis, may emerge in better shape than most countries from the morass.
But before this new order appears, the world may be faced with spreading disorder, if not outright chaos.
But their main effect may be an erosion of reasoned debate and civil conduct, without which democracy is powerless against the forces of polarization and extremism.
If handled correctly, however, the crisis may yet raise the esteem of the European Union and its institutions.
And what happens in 2009 may jeopardize some of the positive results of 1989, including the peaceful reunification of Europe and the triumph of democratic principles over nationalist, if not xenophobic, tendencies.
But what may be most important, particularly in the Arab and Islamic communities, is to end any acceptance of terrorism.