Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if people take account of the costs to themselves but not the burden on the National Health Service in deciding whether or not to smoke and damage their health , society may regard smoking as a merit bad that should be discouraged . |
| 2 | The Microsoft one plugs into a serial port you may want to use for a modem , while you have to hunt for a mouse to fit into the IBM PS/2 socket . |
| 3 | Any condition that a board may seek to attach to a licence can only be attached by a valid bye-law : Allied Breweries ( U.K. ) Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1985 S.L.T. 302.5.140(6) provides that bye-laws made under the 1959 Act continue in force . |
| 4 | For the non-obese Type 2 patient reducing the intake of refined carbohydrate may be effective , but many may need to progress to a sulphonylurea with intermediate duration of action such as glibenclamide . |
| 5 | In very wet weather you may need to resort to a weedkiller like Weedol to kill annual weed seedlings , although chemicals are best kept for really problematic weeds . |
| 6 | Neither precedent nor legislation is sufficient in its own right ; common-law principles may need codifying in a statute , and a statute will need judicial interpretation to determine the scope of its operation . |
| 7 | If you think you do n't qualify , you may need to apply for a divorce in the ordinary way and you should consult a solicitor . |
| 8 | If the purchaser is a listed company it may need to apply for a listing of the consideration shares . |
| 9 | The patient may need to eat from a bowl at first , as he gets used to eating one-handed . |
| 10 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 11 | This discussion should include other professionals in the multidisciplinary team and may need to start with a recognition of their own feelings , before meeting with the old person concerned . |
| 12 | Suppliers are asked to identify all payments that OUP will be expected to make , and all revenues which OUP may expect to receive as a result of entering the proposed relationship . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it has to be recognised that several interests may feel threatened by an advertising ban . |
| 14 | The total length of time over which a product may decline depends on a variety of factors , such as its relevance to basic needs , its adaptability in the light of economic trends and whether it is the focus of short-term fads or of longer-lasting fashions . |
| 15 | Now Hungarian poetry may begin to change towards a poetry which is more autonomous , more self-subsistent with its own themes and materials , not necessarily so directly structured by our political situation . |
| 16 | Publishers ' casings are not designed for library use , and if subjected to a heavy rate of issues they may become damaged within a year or two of purchase . |
| 17 | The original may become contaminated with a computer " virus " . |
| 18 | In the first , there are protein molecules in the cell which bind specifically to X. Consequently , when an X molecule passes randomly into a cell , it may become bound to a protein , which is far too large to pass through the membrane . |
| 19 | Thus , in immature sandstones and carbonates , clay minerals may become concentrated along a seam . |
| 20 | Other goals may become subordinated to a search for relationships , providing a misleading profile . |
| 21 | The need to provide a 24-hour service to hospitals means opportunities may occur to participate in a shift scheme which operates , attracting shift allowance payments . |
| 22 | A few FIVEs may like to listen to a reading of comic strips , regardless of whether they understand them . |
| 23 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 24 | Later the patient recalled that her spells may have begun after a head injury in childhood . |
| 25 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 26 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 27 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 28 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 29 | ‘ I may have to go to a meeting . |
| 30 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |