Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some occasions , instead of throwing the stone , the vulture may use it to hammer the egg . |
| 2 | And while Taylor recognises that , by the time San Marino visit Wembley in February , familiar injury problems may force him to change the complexion of his team , he has no thoughts about altering what has begun to evolve . |
| 3 | However , the permeability of state agencies to external influence may lead them to serve the interests of private groups , and in extreme cases to become ‘ colonised ’ by them . |
| 4 | One obvious problem is that such imagery may lead us to undervalue the significance of the impersonal , particularly if we treat it somehow as the valueless first rung on the ladder of being . |
| 5 | If she subsequently changes her mind and refuses to hand the child over , the courts may allow her to keep the child , and in practice she will be unlikely to return any money , even if she were legally required to do so . |
| 6 | The official receiver must give at least twenty-one days ' notice of the meeting to the bankrupt and may require him to attend the meeting ( r 6.84 ) |
| 7 | It may require us to rethink the type of decision-making process from which we are deriving our procedures . |
| 8 | Where this has occurred because of negligence or deliberate action on your part , we may require you to reimburse the cost of repair or replacement to the ES . |
| 9 | In addition to any disciplinary action , if you have deliberately defrauded the ES or colluded with someone else to defraud the ES , we may require you to repay the amount lost and we are entitled to deduct any such amounts from your salary . |
| 10 | The Index at the back of the book will direct you to the details , but if you are only aware of a symptom , this checklist may help you to diagnose the plumbing problem . |
| 11 | This examination of the political theories of conservatism and liberalism may help us to appreciate the foundations of the normativist style in public law . |
| 12 | The existence of this gap may help us to explain the links between legal positivism , utilitarianism , and the influence of French sociological positivism . |
| 13 | Speech act theory , which relates the function of utterances to sets of felicity conditions and the knowledge of participants that these conditions exist , may help us to understand the unity of exchanges in communication . |
| 14 | Structuralism may help us to understand the construction of the subject as cultural being , but must then allow for the action of that self-referential subject upon history . |
| 15 | Their collective utterances may help us to understand the meaning they wished to attach to this favoured term . |
| 16 | Thinking in these terms may help us to understand the distribution of many other sex differences . |
| 17 | Secondly , the notion of stance may help us to locate the study of mathematics , computing and language ( qua language ) in the curriculum as a whole . |
| 18 | However , there is one kind of measure which , though still affected by many of the variables mentioned above , may help us to conceptualize the undergraduate curriculum in relation to employment ; namely the occupational distribution of graduates in any one subject , which has been analysed in a recent paper by Tarsh ( 1988 ) in terms of the relative importance of direct , subject skills , and indirect , general skills . |
| 19 | Furthermore , under subsection ( 3 ) if the directors fail to make good the default within 14 days after the service of a notice requiring compliance , the court , on the application of the Registrar or any member or creditor of the company , may make an order directing the directors or any of them to make good the default within such time as may be specified and may order them to pay the costs of and incidental to the application . |