Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , egg white is not the easiest adhesive to use at first and you may prefer to use a rubber solution glue . |
| 2 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 3 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 4 | Accordingly the man in our example may prefer to keep an additional fraction of his income as money balances in excess of his transactions demand , just in case something unexpected happens which necessitates immediate expenditure . |
| 5 | Kitchens can be cramped , steamy places to swing a camcorder in , and if yours is particularly small you may want to use a wide-angle adapter-lens of the kind which screws onto the front of the lens to increase the angle of view . |
| 6 | You may want to hold a simple ceremony in your pet 's honour , as a last chance to say goodbye . |
| 7 | Once the teething phase has passed you may want to get a new bed , rather than a cardboard box with its sides cut down . |
| 8 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 9 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
| 10 | Chapter III will help you to choose a rug suited to your individual needs — you may want to make a worthwhile investment , or simply brighten up your home . |
| 11 | Loss of self-respect and faith in self may make communicating a problematic activity . |
| 12 | The taxpayer may seek to raise a robust argument based on fundamental Schedule E rules that the benefit should be limited to the amount which the taxpayer could obtain on a sale of the rights ( Tennant v Smith ( 1892 ) 3 TC 158 , Abbott v Philbin ( 1960 ) 39 TC 82 and Heaton v Bell ( 1969 ) 46 TC 11 ) . |
| 13 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 14 | First , the agency may seek to expand a given government programme by systematically overstating the benefits or understating the costs . |
| 15 | You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues . |
| 16 | Wordwrapping is normally automatic , but with some programs you may need to give an additional Format command to tidy the edited text . |
| 17 | If you fall into any of the above categories , you may need to take a daily multi-vitamin and mineral pill as your nutritional insurance policy ! |
| 18 | You may need to write a pedagogical grammar . |
| 19 | You may need to make an advance payment ( the difference between the total cost of the three year hire for the vehicle selected and the amount of finance available from mobility supplement ) , but for smaller cars there may not be anything to pay . |
| 20 | The second is to buy yourself a good waterproof mascara but remember you may need to buy a suitable eye make-up remover , too . |
| 21 | If you live in the centre of a large town , they may need to fly a long way . |
| 22 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 23 | The reasons are that banks may choose to hold a different liquidity ratio ; customers may not take up all the credit on offer ; and there may be no simple liquidity ratio given the range of near money assets . |
| 24 | The author may choose to use a characteristic work , something typical of its time and place . |
| 25 | Many people appoint the person who is to receive most of their money and property , but you may choose to appoint a close relative or friend whether or not they are to inherit anything . |
| 26 | Some purchasers may decline to submit an indicative offer before meeting the management /vendors and visiting the factory . |
| 27 | The return to Warrington where a gasometer was destroyed three weeks ago may appear to set a curious pattern to the IRA 's logistics , but it may be that recent arrests and seizures of weapons and explosives in London in early March has inflicted a major blow to their intentions in the capital . |
| 28 | 6.8 The observations above on the behaviour of these adjectives may appear to suggest a surprising degree of linguistic sophistication on the part of ordinary language users ; it may , though , seem less surprising now that we have recognized in the earlier part of this chapter the sense-qualifiers , since these distinctively qualify the property of a noun without constituting a qualification of the corresponding entity . |
| 29 | This may appear to place a heavy burden on the plaintiff but it has been held that he does not have to identify the exact person responsible for the defect ( Grant v Australian Knitting Mills ) . |
| 30 | Some exports are seen , and the pool of cheap labour and resources means that they may begin to pose a competitive threat . |