Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to give boiled water to compensate for fruit juices or other extra liquids that you have withdrawn . |
| 2 | We may need to find alternative means achieve some end . |
| 3 | During this period students may opt to undertake placement-related studies leading to the award of the additional qualification of Diploma in Industrial Studies , thus further integrating their academic and applied knowledge and enhancing their career prospects . |
| 4 | During this period , students may decide to undertake placement-related studies leading to the award of the Diploma in Industrial Studies , thus further integrating their academic and applied knowledge as well as enhancing their career prospects . |
| 5 | As you may have noticed other debates have attracted rather more publicity this week , but the theme of our congress is jobs and recovery because jobs and recovery is the most important issue for our members and for Britain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 8 | Physical closeness in the temple workshops may have stimulated friendly rivalry to produce ever-finer works and thus stimulated technical and artistic development . |
| 9 | Note that if these DCs reference more than one module , you may have to create new DCs to perform the work in different packages . |
| 10 | IBM says that at present , these users may have to use separate terminals to do their work . |
| 11 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 12 | On the eve of the television debate , El Mundo , a Madrid newspaper that has uncovered several corruption scandals involving the Socialists , said that the party may have used dodgy methods to finance its campaign before the 1986 referendum on whether Spain should stay in NATO . |
| 13 | Likewise , you may have to pay other people to do some of the jobs , such as the decorating , that you previously managed yourself . |
| 14 | If , as expected , Britain does finally ratify the convention , it may apply to have certain areas designated as World Heritage sites . |
| 15 | The company want to be satisfied about the conditions under which the lift is being undertaken and may wish to charge additional premium to delete this exclusion . |
| 16 | A social worker , for example , may refuse to divulge confidential information relating to a case coming before a committee , or an architect may decline to sign the necessary documents if a professional judgement is not satisfied . |
| 17 | It seems a faint hope that an administrative model which may involve setting unattainable standards based on competence-led performance indicators , inflexibility in eligibility criteria , and limitations on the use of self as a resource , can supply the incentives to provide or even to broker services in an improved way . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that either provision will be needed but the fact that they exist may help to prevent undesirable practices developing with respect to computer software . |