Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly for the bride ; optional for the groom ( trad. males may prefer to keep to the old proprietorial ways ) . |
| 2 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 3 | You may have a lump sum to invest or you may want to save on a regular basis . |
| 4 | Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director . |
| 5 | While some may come to admire the Guercino or the girandoles , many people , including children , may enjoy looking at the old or not-so-old toys , or even a collection of fifty years of milk bottles from the local dairy . |
| 6 | Supporters of the rational model may seek to move to the desired situation in one strategic move . |
| 7 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 8 | Women with severe emotional problems may need counselling on a long-term basis . |
| 9 | Decisions are then needed on how to train , which will include whether or which parts should be on-line or off-line , whether the operator is required to function in a mainly programmed ( i.e. rule-following ) mode and how far he may need to function in a conceptual ( i.e. actions based on understanding ) mode . |
| 10 | Once the system is fully operational , then one may consider moving to an in-house installation if the economies are worthwhile . |
| 11 | Organisations may choose to relocate to a new area for a variety of reasons . |
| 12 | A manager may feel threatened by the seeming erosion of his authority , or by the uncertainties created by a culture of change and flexibility . |
| 13 | This may appear to conflict with the above paragraph , but either point can be valid depending on the location and the circumstances . |
| 14 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |
| 15 | Frequently , however , there is also an ingrowth of the sternum near their origin so that they are carried inwards and the whole forms a Y-shaped structure , the furca , whose internal arms may become fused with the pleural arms or are connected with them by short muscles . |
| 16 | There are potential pitfalls , the association may become dominated by an unrepresentative majority that could attempt to bring undue pressure on school policies . |
| 17 | In a few years , the sward may become dominated by the coarse tussock-forming grass , Brachypodium pinnatum , and eventually the vegetation turns into some form of scrub and possibly woodland . |
| 18 | A hazard is a threat which , given a set of circumstances , may become translated into a realized event . |
| 19 | Really sophisticated users may like to invest in the ultimate communications link between the two systems , a local area network . |
| 20 | As many ponds are in beautiful gardens many readers may like to know of a possible source of free fertiliser . |
| 21 | If so , any school or group of schools in consultation with the College and the leader of the in-service team may decide to depart from a particular syllabus or portions of it and develop in its place new material which after being tried out and improved upon may be passed on to other schools and colleges for use on a wider scale with the approval of the Ministry . |
| 22 | A Lebanese chauffeur may decide to appeal against a seven-year jail sentence for killing Oxfordshire fashion model Kim Brockwell . |
| 23 | While temples built in the later eighteenth century may have stood in a naturalistic landscape inspired by the paintings of Claude , earlier garden buildings almost certainly stood in more formal settings , and fragments of avenues or long overgrown yew and beech hedges may remain . |
| 24 | In his review of man , vegetation and the sediment yields of rivers Douglas suggested that little account had previously been taken of human influence and his studies of rates of erosion in a wide range of climatic conditions in eastern Australia suggested that the present sediment yields are far in excess of those which may have prevailed in the geological past . |
| 25 | It may have begun as a seasonal steading , only later being permanently occupied . |
| 26 | In general we are our own worst enemies when it comes to enlarging and reinforcing our fears , so that what may have begun as a minor apprehension can escalate into a problem of mammoth proportions . |
| 27 | Pollen and ovule eating may have begun in the Carboniferous , the first ‘ modern ’ group with such mandibles , the Coleoptera , appearing in the Permian , with Diptera and Hymenoptera in the Triassic , and Lepidoptera in the Lower Cretaceous . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Although the government continued to think him dangerous — and there are signs that he may have remained in the revamped United Irish movement during his brother 's imprisonment — in 1803 he advised Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] against rebellion and there is no evidence of treasonable activity thereafter . |
| 30 | 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 . |