Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several factors may modify prescribing such as the patient ( morbidity , deprivation , health education , and expectations ) , the doctor ( workload , repeat prescription systems , consultation style , and prescribing formulary ) , and external criteria ( therapeutic advances , primary/secondary care interface , and drug company marketing ) . |
| 2 | For this reason women who have no children may prefer to use another method of contraception . |
| 3 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 4 | You may prefer to follow this by a lesser known quotation from another author . |
| 5 | Your supporters will ask questions that you can answer skilfully ( you may want to plant these ) . |
| 6 | Cutting and drilling into mirrors can be tricky , and you may want to leave these jobs to a glass merchant . |
| 7 | Common sense may want to brush this aside , as an unnecessarily sophisticated attempt to confuse the issue . |
| 8 | For example , some woods turn darker as they age , so you may want to take that into account when choosing something very pale . |
| 9 | For instance car manufacturers may offer exceedingly cheap credit , not because they believe their borrowers are uniquely low risk , but because they may want to sell more cars . |
| 10 | For instance car manufacturers may offer exceedingly cheap credit , not because they believe their borrowers are uniquely low risk , but because they may want to sell more cars . |
| 11 | Teachers may want to use this information for reference in the case of individual pupils with visual defects or to study it in order to increase their general understanding of the implications of visual handicaps in learning . |
| 12 | ‘ You may want to put that over your eyes , the driving 's kinda crazy here , ’ he said as ten cars hurtled forward with absolutely no lane discipline , and all went straight through a red light with furious honking . |
| 13 | If you ca n't move straight into your new home , or you find yourself with too many belongings , you may want to put some things into storage . |
| 14 | Well , on top of the expense of maintaining the house and the car , you may want to continue any hobbies you may have or take more holidays . |
| 15 | Study the photograph and suggest why they may want to stop this . |
| 16 | I shall talk through it and if you can get something written I 'll leave you to do a diagram and you may want to staple this into your book staple 's easier than gluing this . |
| 17 | You may want to invite former colleagues to work for or with you in your new sphere . |
| 18 | It is common practice to tip the people who have done the removal work so you may want to withdraw enough for this too . |
| 19 | In certain running-down cases , however , a defendant should be asked to make discovery ( eg latent defect cases , where the plaintiff may want to see all his maintenance and servicing records ; accidents alleged to have been caused by sudden and unexpected illness or death , where the plaintiff wants to see the medical records ; and of course claims in nuisance against highway authorities and their contractors , where discovery can often reveal breaches of prescribed safety codes and bad accident records ) . |
| 20 | The Leader of the House may want to check that , and put his own figures right to make sure that the record is straight . |
| 21 | Good idea to have a list of all the file names , cos er , you may want to copy this system to some other computer . |
| 22 | You may want to discuss this with the home(s) of your choice . |
| 23 | they may want to start some day . |
| 24 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 25 | Another may want to train each and every one of its telephonists in a different language ! |
| 26 | Others do not , but you may want to add some staged encounters along the way . |
| 27 | You may want to bring some of your personal possessions with you and you will need to make your own arrangements for insuring them . |
| 28 | When you 've finished these ( you may want to read some of them twice ) , I 'll give you more . |
| 29 | ‘ They are using the computer to gauge who would be suitable to attend certain meetings : they may want to exclude some of them . ’ |
| 30 | You may want to store these copies on different media types . |