Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Account executives must have a head for figures and a feeling for spending the client 's money wisely because they may need to explain costs at any moment . |
| 2 | The architect may choose to obtain quotations for certain areas of the work from specialist labour and material sub-contractors , under/CT 80 , who will be known as nominated sub-contractors . |
| 3 | You may have to consult colleagues about this . |
| 4 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 5 | For example : ( 1 ) a school in Liverpool may feel their local history to be linked to part of the world of work on American cotton plantations ; ( 2 ) a school in rural Wales may wish to exploit connections of Welsh emigrants to Patagonia ; ( 3 ) a school in Lancashire may feel it essential to include a study of textiles in the nineteenth century as an in-depth study in a Victorian core unit . |
| 6 | Alternatively he may not wish to pursue the subject in great depth but , instead , may wish to use materials in new and imaginative ways , and therefore needs to understand their properties . |
| 7 | We have therefore decided that colleges may continue to recruit students to all existing courses for session 1989–90 and this information was confirmed in a letter from the Chief Executive to Directors of Education and Principals/Directors of colleges at the end of October . |
| 8 | The child may start to hide faeces in inappropriate places or smear faeces on the walls or bedclothes . |
| 9 | Males are usually most involved in attacking predators and may collaborate to kill snakes as dangerous prey . |
| 10 | Unlike the construction of age equivalents , in the generation of standard scores it may help to include children with linguistic difficulties in the standardisation sample , since the test 's items will be designed to discriminate these children from children who are not experiencing language difficulties . |
| 11 | The employer who has obtained patent protection for an invention which is undergoing refinement may agree to supply customers with one of his own non patented substitute products until the development work has reached its conclusion . |