Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work continues with NEC on the low-power VRX R4000 iteration , though SGI has n't decide whether it 'll productise the thing yet , it may prefer instead to let NEC bring portable technologies to market and OEM them . |
| 2 | They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use . |
| 3 | If they ca n't be moved ( for example you may prefer not to call in a plumber to move the sink ) , stick them down . |
| 4 | You may prefer not to do so because of the risk of breach of confidence or discrimination . |
| 5 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 6 | He may prefer only to claim that they apply once ethical language and judgement are understood in the way he recommends . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's make somewhere to leave them . ’ |
| 8 | In order that this may swell easily to accommodate its rapidly accumulating tissues , this simple body is not burdened with a heavy sclerotised skeleton but enclosed in a thin and to some degree stretchable cuticle . |
| 9 | Any such artefact may seek either to proclaim or to hide the material used and the constraints the material has imposed upon the technological process : a mask may be thought to incorporate the spiritual properties of the wood from which it is taken ; a group of people may refuse to purchase an item known to be of seal skin ; a plastic may seek to copy a more traditional material ; the gold from which an object is made may have far greater significance than the actual form into which it has been hammered . |
| 10 | Some students may need only to make good on areas where their performance has not been up to the Compact mark , others may need to negotiate the complete range of Compact goals at this level . |
| 11 | Ants lay down these chemical markers on the road to a food supply so that they and their fellows may know where to go . |
| 12 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 13 | He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one . |
| 14 | Thus , even though a fraudulent sender may know how to access the network and establish a valid identity , he can not obtain possession of the goods without the use of the private key . |
| 15 | A number of students may opt instead to spend this term at one of the following European universities — Amsterdam , Ghent , Autonomous University of Barcelona , as part of an ERASMUS exchange project . |
| 16 | But in any case if , as was argued in Chapter 1 , companies should be viewed as social enterprises , that is , they should be understood as vehicles for the promotion of the general good , then a requirement that managers should comply with publicly articulated decision- making standards , and that mechanisms should exist visibly to test compliance with them , should be regarded as something that is desirable in itself . |
| 17 | Elizabeth looked consciously unmoved , as though someone had paid her a compliment which , in modesty , she must affect not to have heard . |
| 18 | She told her that it had been suggested to her that she should remain behind to rest , but she did not consider her darling Thomas would have approved of this . |
| 19 | " The school should seek not to make primary reading the fetish that is has been . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you all about her , but you must promise not to laugh . ’ |
| 21 | He explained that first I must promise not to fight against Lilliput or hurt Lilliputians , and that I must be searched for weapons . |
| 22 | It is recommended that the build file should describe how to build the package and reference either another module or a document/manual which instructs the user how to run the software once it has been built . |
| 23 | A racing cyclist must know how to recover from humiliations . |
| 24 | She must know how to give or take his hand and always to acknowledge his presence as an equal partner in the dance . |
| 25 | Should you ever possess a whole ham on the bone , you must know how to carve it properly , otherwise you will waste a great deal of meat and subsequently be eating ham soup for ages . |
| 26 | You must know how to go about a revision of this kind . |
| 27 | He must know how to lift or catch her in different ways from a static position or jump without any sign of strain . |
| 28 | You are bone and wood , Grandmother , so you must know how to save us . |
| 29 | He or she must know how to exercise pastoral care , what to do in order to observe requirements of health and safety , how to handle links with parents , how to weigh the significance of community connections , what to understand about the world of work and how to regard a teacher 's individual position within the structure of the education service at large . |
| 30 | Thus the pupil must know how to correspond to these sacrifices of the people by obtaining good marks and being exemplary . |