Example sentences of "may have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain may have to bide it 's time for it 's next tennis hero … |
| 2 | Unless business picks up soon , some of the 245 foreign-owned banks in Switzerland may have to shut up shop . |
| 3 | If the hiatus is serious he may have to shut down all or part of the system or it may trip automatically and the operator 's task is to observe/control the shut-down to a quiescent state . |
| 4 | It says if the ruling stays , it may have to shut down . |
| 5 | To pay the wages , they may have to realise some of their assets . |
| 6 | You may have to unscrew the stove-fiddles to release the Thermos , and you 'll find the milk in the fridge to the right of the stove . ’ |
| 7 | I may have to save them . |
| 8 | But in the end , we may have to save the honour of Genoa the Superb by attacking her . ’ |
| 9 | They may have to save before they marry , and both may need to stay in work for as long as possible . |
| 10 | If things do n't improve I may have to re-design my garden . |
| 11 | ash-strapped local authorities may have to set limits , either formal or informal , on the amount they can spend to keep groups like elderly people and people with learning difficulties in their own homes . |
| 12 | Similarly many a bureau may have to close their doors an hour before their official closing time in order to be able to leave the bureau not too many hours after closing time . |
| 13 | In some cases downstream users may have to close their intakes , and anglers may be appalled at the sight of dead fish . |
| 14 | A home for reformed alcoholics may have to close because of Government cuts . |
| 15 | An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession . |
| 16 | We may have to close some roads to traffic and make them pedestrian only . |
| 17 | A WARNING has been given that some council buildings in Clwyd may have to close if maintenance is not carried out . |
| 18 | ONE of the newest clubs in Cleveland may have to close down due to a fall-off in attendance . |
| 19 | IF THE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank goes ahead with a takeover of Midland Bank , it may have to replace the pair of bronze lions that grace the entrance to its headquarters with a more appropriate symbol — such as a couple of ducks . |
| 20 | All at the end you do is losing your voice and , and if you do n't get your way , then you it up louder and louder and louder and if you do n't get your way you may have to back down then and the aggressive person backing down to sort of a submissive does n't always hold very much credibility . |
| 21 | He may have to put up with being ordered about by a big brother or sister anxious to exert their authority . |
| 22 | I believe that if the post office changes hands , that 's quite a crucial time because the newcomers may have to put up front quite a large sum of money . |
| 23 | It is true that the Ecclesiastical Court is not the only one which deals with the goods of dead men ; the executor or administrator may have to sue in the Common Law Courts to recover the claims or property of the deceased , and the deceased 's creditors can sue him there . |
| 24 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 25 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 26 | A young couple may have to shelve plans to have a baby , at least for the moment . |
| 27 | You may have to remain with an unsatisfactory state of affairs through most of 1993 , which means that any planned moves will prove heavy-going or much resented . |
| 28 | Senior law officers , like the Attorney General , may have to remain plain ‘ mister ’ . |
| 29 | You may have to lose it altogether . |
| 30 | Geoffrey Coombs wrote the letter after discovering that his school may have to lose a teacher if planned cuts to the education budget go ahead . |