Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [vb infin] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , it is possible that greater training in counselling skills may lead to a more skilfully directed and efficient interview . |
| 2 | As with external assessment in the primary phase , we believe that new methods of testing pupils ' reading skills may need to be devised , building on the best of GCSE practice . |
| 3 | Old unresolved conflicts may need to be exposed rather than hidden or disguised . |
| 4 | Dyeing is considered a science , whose secrets are handed down from generation to generation , and when the dyer is working , only other dyers may speak to him . |
| 5 | Some roads may have to be narrowed to single-track width in order to force lorries onto the central sections which are sufficiently strong to bear their weight . |
| 6 | ( WES ) So many people now descend on the Wye Valley every summer that conservationists say some roads may have to be closed at peak times to restrict the number of visitors . |
| 7 | Contrary to the general principles of distribution certain products may have to be restricted to named users who have special training . |
| 8 | It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them . |
| 9 | Different professional institutions may define to a greater or lesser extent the modes and their mix . |
| 10 | The Inland Revenue has announced an increase in the tax-free amount employers may pay to employees for periods of attendance on full-time educational courses ( including sandwich courses ) . |
| 11 | Any person who believes that his or her rights under the Convention have been infringed by a court ruling or an administrative act , and who has exhausted all the possibilities of redress in the British courts may complain to Strasbourg . |
| 12 | Finally , a number of other social and community reasons may contribute to out-migration . |
| 13 | Other queries may relate to specific attributes of the spatial entities , or to combinations of these attributes , to the exclusion of any locational property . |
| 14 | Although this ‘ voluntary ’ aspect of indirect taxes may apply to a particular individual and a particular tax , it can not apply to all individuals and all taxes . |
| 15 | Mergers may lead to economies of scale and increasing economic efficiency as well as creating business units of the necessary size and strength to compete on equal terms with the largest companies outside the Community . |
| 16 | Yet the weak or anomalous We forms may point to a further truth , that Shakespeare conceives of the relationship between two friends as both united and separated . |
| 17 | However , the lack of relationship between the technical dimension of work and housework satisfaction patterns may point to the relative unimportance of working conditions as factors shaping work satisfaction generally . |
| 18 | This consideration of the events and operations may lead to a tuning of the model , an adjustment of the entitles and the attributes . |
| 19 | Social life revolves mainly round the hotels , though dedicated night owls may retire to the late bars , or visit the bright lights of Bodrum and the spectacular ‘ Halikarnas ’ disco . |
| 20 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 21 | At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved . |
| 22 | Conservationists are concerned that when this happens frightened local authorities may resort to indiscriminate poison baiting , a step which would undoubtedly kill many wild dogs , but could spell the end for several other declining species as well . |
| 23 | The combination of methods utilized by smaller authorities may have to be different from those employed by larger authorities , but they have similar training objectives , and many similar needs , which should be recognized as such . |
| 24 | Under such circumstances speculative capital movements can not be relied upon to offset any temporary deficit on the current account because capital flows may prove to be volatile in an uncertain world . |
| 25 | There are circumstances , however , where the visual — spatial characteristics of signs may work to advantage in the perception and processing of BSL . |
| 26 | A feast fit for a prawn : Revolutionary food capsules may lead to bigger and better harvests of shellfish . |
| 27 | At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved . |
| 28 | Public utilities such as electricity , gas , water and telecommunications provided the best examples of what were considered to be natural monopolies , although when technological advances are made , certain industries formerly classed as natural monopolies may cease to be so ( eg telecommunications ) . |
| 29 | But theoretical analysis suggests that credible punishment strategies may need to be quite subtle and sophisticated , which leads to the conclusion that so-called ‘ tacit ’ collusion may in practice turn out to be ‘ secret ’ collusion . |
| 30 | Members of the project envisage that up to 50 more birds may need to be introduced over the next two years before a self-supporting sea eagle population can be established . |