Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 2 | Over-committing yourself to a foot sweep may expose you to your opponent 's full point counter |
| 3 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 4 | Asthma , heart conditions , diabetes or epilepsy may expose you to special risks with watersports in the heat . |
| 5 | As we have seen , such organisations tend to be dominated by formal rules and by committees which may lend themselves to the more autocratic style of leadership . |
| 6 | Finally , the information found may lend itself to various forms of presentation , ranging from fact sheets to some kind of argument for or against various issues . |
| 7 | Acute , function-related pain is primarily sensory or peripheral , and may lend itself to treatment with analgesics directed to the involved organ . |
| 8 | It is not simply that it is a vital matter for some small group of people ( as some may think them to be ) called ‘ Christian feminists ’ who would reconcile their feminism with their Christian faith . |
| 9 | One may think there to be very little point in simply reciting that ‘ the church has never ordained women ’ without enquiring into why this should have been . |
| 10 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 11 | Adolescents conscious of personal appearance may prefer them to eyeglasses . |
| 12 | Apart from the fact that Asiatic birth rates flourish and will continue to flourish , that the population of Russia may double itself to over 320000000 before decline begins , there is evidence of resistance [ to a declining birth rate ] in Germany and Raly . ’ |
| 13 | Also , you may want someone to be able to see base figures and a final result , but not the devious manipulations you have performed on the route twixt the two . |
| 14 | He prays that ‘ according to the riches of his glory , the Father may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man ’ . |
| 15 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 16 | Do n't forget , you may need them to be there for you , another time , another place ! |
| 17 | He may consider himself to be a latter-day President Kennedy , or be tempted to follow the pro-IRA line taken by Senator Edward Kennedy . |
| 18 | There are , however , considerable problems with such approaches , however desirable radical adult educators may consider them to be . |
| 19 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 20 | And not a murderer , whatever else you may know him to be . |
| 21 | A practical use is to give warning , if someone enters the room a few hand claps or knock at the door may alert you to their presence ; the shock of someone approaching you silently is avoided . |
| 22 | First , if specific librarians and information scientists are unable or unwilling ( or both ) to learn about and understand the detailed situations within which the information that they handle will eventually be used , then they should restrict themselves to the more general situation-independent value-adding processes . |
| 23 | This difference , as we have seen , is between two kinds of causal explanation , and if both can have some force , as Miller believes , it is not obvious why social scientists should restrict themselves to only one of them . |
| 24 | We should restrict ourselves to trying to understand , and then try to help them expand and develop what they want to say . |
| 25 | As racial tension increases , social workers must adapt themselves to the prevailing racial climate . |
| 26 | The guiding principle of the Okapi research is that the system must adapt itself to the user rather than the converse . |
| 27 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 28 | Basically , the way you should explain it to your buyer client is that the share of a joint tenant passes automatically to the survivor on death , whereas the share of a tenant in common passes under the terms of their will to whomsoever their beneficiaries may be . |
| 29 | Reverting to my opening discussion of the evolution of the ego and superego , we can readily see the importance of these stages and we can understand why it is that the sexual drive should lend itself to such apparently irrelevant associations as the oral and anal zones . |
| 30 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |