Example sentences of "may [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way he may only despatch the liquor to the customer outwith permitted hours . |
| 2 | York winner Sabre Rattler will be backed for the big two-year-old race , but may not give the weight to Urry Urry Urry ( 3.00 ) . |
| 3 | If you identify strongly with those you study you may not appreciate the extent to which you have been brain-washed . |
| 4 | A local authority may not cause the child to be brought up in any religious persuasion other than the one in which he would have been brought up if the order had not been made ( s33(6) ( a ) ) . |
| 5 | This does not mean ‘ just-enough ’ telecommunications on site ; it may also mean the nearness to a micro-wave or satellite TV link or surface links to a major town . |
| 6 | We may also consider the value to A and to B of a bet , say for a simple example a 50 per cent chance of £0 and a 50 per cent chance of £1000 . |
| 7 | 4 Scaffolding The right to erect scaffolding for [ any purpose connected with or related to the Centre or the purpose of repairing or cleaning the Centre ] notwithstanding that such scaffolding may temporarily restrict the access to or use and enjoyment of the Premises This right is included in order to overcome the problem resulting from Owen v Gadd where the Court of Appeal held that the construction of scaffolding poles in front of a shop , where there was no reservation of such a right , infringed the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment . |
| 8 | But Jasmine 's mother says she 's not satisfied , and may now take the matter to court . |
| 9 | These are clearly more formal models than those which the modern letter-writer is used to , yet Shakespeare 's range stretches from the intimate and occasional to just such formal rhetorical structures as Day 's category of the ‘ Epistle Deliberative ’ , which uses a mixture of praise and criticism in its ‘ Hortatory ’ or ‘ Dehortatory ’ intent , and may legitimately subject the recipient to moral pressure : Yet , while acknowledging the relevance of Day 's treatise on letter-writing and its tactics of persuasion , we may note that in Shakespeare one of Day 's categories is absent , namely the ‘ Responsory Epistle ’ , which ‘ dependeth of the partes of a former letter ’ and must refer back to it . |
| 10 | If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over . |
| 11 | Richard Allan Soloway 's excellent study of the birth control movement between 1870 and 1930 may well reveal the extent to which these groups were concerned about the need to spread knowledge about birth control amongst the working classes but , it would seem , in the light of more recent research , that such concern was inappropriate . |
| 12 | Often focus on a theme such as transport , or trade and communication may well provide the link to the wider context that is needed . |
| 13 | The parties may sometimes want the transfer to be effective from a date before the completion date , particularly if there is likely to be a long delay while consents are sought . |
| 14 | The later figures may therefore underestimate the extent to which wealth is concentrated . |
| 15 | This Sri Lankan Buddhist priest confronts an image of the Buddha hoping to find , through contemplation , answers to the many mysteries humanity may never find the answer to . |