Example sentences of "may choose " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author may choose to use a characteristic work , something typical of its time and place . |
| 2 | An art historian may choose to elucidate the social context of the art , or trace its sources in the work of other artists ; these choices will be reflected in the illustrations as well as the text , while sketches , other versions of pictures and related material will be available for the reader to make comparisons . |
| 3 | The critic may choose to write about common features in the work of the artists exhibiting ; this may lead to generalisations about the group which take little account of the individual qualities of the artists . |
| 4 | Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers . |
| 5 | This is to enable everyone to advise you on the possibilities you may choose to explore . |
| 6 | One may choose to adopt a broadly aesthetic approach to texts , as is often done , perfectly appropriately , but one then encounters what seems to me a potentially disabling contradiction . |
| 7 | The US appears willing to take Mr Yang , but he may choose to live in Taiwan . |
| 8 | You may choose not to report this , but you should have the honesty to report Labour 's policy accurately . |
| 9 | The lights are always there so that Mrs Thatcher , at whatever hour , may choose to be seen on TV sweeping through saying nothing , thus demonstrating that she is Prime Minister and going busily about the nation 's business . |
| 10 | They may choose a paper for its coverage of sports and scandals and then be subjected to its coverage of politics . |
| 11 | With all three services already represented , the Queen may choose to honour the Earl of Carnarvon , her racing manager and a personal friend . |
| 12 | ‘ I can sketch 100 different hats on the spot and they may choose just 10 . |
| 13 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 14 | We will introduce a flexible ‘ decade of retirement ’ for men and women , in which people may choose to retire and take a state pension at any time between ages of 60 and 70 ( the value of the pension increasing with the age of retirement ) . |
| 15 | Guests may choose to take lunch rather than dinner . |
| 16 | Dinner is a set starter and dessert , and for the main course you may choose from the a la carte menu . |
| 17 | There are techniques , then , for minimizing damage to the Earth 's waterways , even though we may choose to exploit them . |
| 18 | He or she may choose to travel with friends , but the true traveller sets out to make an independent , unhurried journey to the unknown , without supervision , avoiding tourist shrines and travelling where few foreign feet tread . |
| 19 | Some may choose to neglect their health or to trade it for the freedom to do other things , as does the business executive who opts for a stressful way of life in pursuit of material success . |
| 20 | We have tried to make it clear in the law that what we are establishing is a parallel procedure and not an exclusive procedure , so that the other law as it existed , whatever it is , still does exist today , but that here is a prescribed procedure which terminally ill patients may choose to use should they wish to do so . |
| 21 | You are unlikely to want to copy slavishly what you see in the magazines but you may choose to adapt those ideas which appeal to you in order to feel happier with the way you look . |
| 22 | You may choose to circle them very lightly with a soft pencil which can easily be erased later or you may use a highlighter pen — it rather depends on how precious the book is ( and , indeed , whether it belongs to you ) . |
| 23 | You may choose to use initials for something which is mentioned frequently or simply to write the first half of the word . |
| 24 | The beneficiaries may be willing to sell the shares to the surviving directors — but they may choose not to do so . |
| 25 | I must , therefore , introduce some rather harsh facts of life which we may choose to ignore but from which we can not escape . |
| 26 | In this case the librarian may choose to purchase or borrow through the interlending system , depending upon the work 's quality and the likelihood of its being requested and/or used again . |
| 27 | He may choose to have the book bound , but this is by no means an automatic decision . |
| 28 | So the manager or ‘ customer ’ may choose not to buy on this occasion . |
| 29 | Today , for example , in Unilever , employees over the age of fifty may choose to work progressively less with the firm and more with the community until in their last year before retirement they work only one day a week with the firm . |
| 30 | You may choose your own bathing/washing times and who , if anyone , will help you . |