Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may wish to leave your monthly transfer at the same amount ; or you may want to amend it in the light of an increase in the cost of living or changes in your expenditure plans . |
| 2 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 3 | At the end of the sequence , you may choose to close it with a fade out , but a straight cut to the first shot of the next sequence might be more brisk and businesslike . |
| 4 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 5 | You may like to compare it with a list of your own . |
| 6 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
| 7 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 8 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
| 9 | Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them . |
| 10 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 11 | Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable . |
| 12 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 13 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 14 | In other words , they may have seen it as a means of safeguarding their referral patterns , which might have been threatened had they been forced to restrict themselves to contracts made by district health authority purchasers . |
| 15 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 16 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 18 | Your experience of previous similar texts in the 1970s may have familiarised you with the form X rule OK which may permit you to divide this unpunctuated sequence into two parts : |
| 19 | Your college or lecturers may have provided you with a selected list . |
| 20 | There is a reference during the mid-16th century to the mill being held from the manor by Johannis Berry , who may have worked it as a fulling mill . |
| 21 | This may have left him with a condition known as Schönlein-Henoch Syndrome , together with the beginnings of chronic kidney disease . |
| 22 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 23 | I said I may have to hurt him for a remark like that . |
| 24 | As one consultant said : ‘ We may have overdone it to the extent that , apart from in certain industries , risk management may well already be regarded as old hat . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 26 | Because one of the commitments I hope John er may have told you on the phone , one of the parts of the contract we have with G A is that they provide a list of businesses . |
| 27 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 28 | They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive . |
| 29 | While some may see the whole area of aesthetic response as one limited by hedonism or elitism , or may wish to view it as a superficial frill of little relevance to the real world of materialistic values , others are able to propose valid reasons why investigation into the nature of aesthetic experience should be pursued . |
| 30 | As more people choose to enjoy the horse for leisure and sporting activities , the Event will bring together everyone with a serious interest and involvement in horses , and those with the land and resources who may wish to utilise them for a new equine business . |