Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may think to deflect the curse , ’ said the sorceress , ‘ and for a while you will do so , for your sorcerers are powerful , and the Enchantment they have woven will endure . |
| 2 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 3 | However , traders may prefer to use the futures market to exploit information which relates to the economy in general ( systematic information ) rather than to particular companies . |
| 4 | Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet . |
| 5 | Non-hippies may prefer to take the cathedral town of Wells as a base . |
| 6 | But of course , you may prefer to join The Ramblers ' Association simply to add your voice to that of our 63,000 existing members and to keep in touch with what is going on in the countryside . |
| 7 | You may prefer to fix the matchboard across the narrowest width of the room . |
| 8 | In order to wash the shampoo out of the coat , you may prefer to lift the dog out of the bath and rinse the coat separately . |
| 9 | The document will thus be a conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " ( see p24 ) and stamp duty of 50p is payable ; practitioners may prefer to submit the document to the Inland Revenue Adjudication Section . |
| 10 | Deeper hard pans require more drastic operations such as double digging ; in established gardens you may prefer to delay the upheaval until each area affected is due for renewal and replanting . |
| 11 | As the recipe makes a great many biscuits , you may prefer to halve the quantities , though you can store them in an airtight container . |
| 12 | Others may find this tedious , and may prefer to modify the methods or find other suggestions in some of the literature in the Bibliography . |
| 13 | Kits may be borrowed from local hire shops , or you may prefer to share the cost with a number of neighbours or friends . |
| 14 | You may prefer to keep the diet simple during your working week and to save the more elaborate meal for the weekends of , if you feel really adventurous , for dinner parties . |
| 15 | In any particular case , a number of good reasons may exist to encourage the publication of the criminal 's perspective . |
| 16 | They may want to control the media capable of reaching large sections of the population , yet at the same time be suspicious of the power these media possess : power which is ultimately beyond their control . |
| 17 | They may want to leave the hassle of day-to-day practice , but even so , retain their skills and find it difficult to close the book on a lifetime in the profession they love . |
| 18 | ‘ People who may want to leave the business , often have skills we need , ’ an IBM personnel man explains , ‘ so we have an org called Skillbase . |
| 19 | When you have n't had time to prepare , however , you may want to leave the item just where it is . |
| 20 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 21 | If , over the years , you suspect that there has been a swing to or away from attending more than once a Sunday , you may want to take the trouble of further refining your data . |
| 22 | You may want to take the advice of your Consulate . ’ |
| 23 | Here the material will be used in the spoken rather than written form and you may want to rephrase the information accordingly . |
| 24 | Pupils using early photographs as one of their sources for instance , may want to put the invention of photography onto their time-line , and this could be linked with experiments and science work on the behaviour of light . |
| 25 | Alternatively , however , you may want to emphasise the point that actual readers are unlikely to respond all in the same way , especially readers differing in gender , class , age , ethnicity or some other aspect of social identity . |
| 26 | In this case you may want to analyse the language as well as learn to speak it . |
| 27 | The woman 's killing the man seems metaphorical only , but it fits the present idea — that the one whose identity becomes submerged may want to kill the other . |
| 28 | This does give Europe the possibility of a role , perhaps in bringing the war to an end , when unwise forces in Washington may want to continue the war too long , and also to play a role in clearing up the mess afterwards , although its going to be a terrifying mess . |
| 29 | Erm , clearly in an in any agricultural supply function , you may want to incorporate the fact that weather plays a vitally im important , important role . |
| 30 | Having said that , if you do have top-quality black and white photographs , then include one with the press releases to the national newspapers ; they may want to carry the story but have no time to find a photograph themselves . |