Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More exceptionally still , Parliament may endeavour to prevent judicial review and may wish the decisions of the tribunal to be final and beyond the supervisory jurisdiction of the ordinary courts . |
| 2 | For this reason women who have no children may prefer to use another method of contraception . |
| 3 | Sales-packs containing samples of our goods are available or you may prefer to take specific items . |
| 4 | Of course , you may prefer to choose outside alliances rather than restrict yourself to the family , but in times of hardship the family may be more dependable . |
| 5 | Alternatively the builder may prefer to provide public liability and employer 's liability insurance on behalf of all sub-contractors , either without charge or by deduction of ’ say 1% from the payments made . |
| 6 | Cutting and drilling into mirrors can be tricky , and you may want to leave these jobs to a glass merchant . |
| 7 | Also , you may want to do future business so look after your trading goodwill . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You may want to invite former colleagues to work for or with you in your new sphere . |
| 14 | Good idea to have a list of all the file names , cos er , you may want to copy this system to some other computer . |
| 15 | they may want to start some day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In some cases you may want to add further information : books are published in Cambridge England and Cambridge USA , so saying just " Cambridge " may not be helpful ; add country details if you think there is a possibility of confusion . |
| 18 | On other occasions you may want to place specific feature material or to say " thank you " , and personal meetings are obviously useful here . |
| 19 | You may want to store these copies on different media types . |
| 20 | So you may want to modify such formulations along the lines , " a reader is likely to feel at this point " or " many readers may respond by … " , or — possibly better — by tackling the issue of heterogeneous reader-responses more directly . |
| 21 | I may want to recognize this pattern as well as that pattern . |
| 22 | If you achieve success in local unaffiliated competitions , you may want to investigate affiliated competitions . |
| 23 | If you 're faced with a slippery floor problem , it is inexpensive these days to get exhibition contractors to supply some cheap carpeting and you may want to investigate this option . |
| 24 | We may want to make useful contacts with others . |
| 25 | With all the press warnings , Jo Punter ought to know to avoid unquoted stocks , to avoid disreputable shares and futures dealing companies . |
| 26 | Now with regard to auditors in particular , er he will know because he 's had some correspondence with me er on this particular subject , it is the view of the government that the er recognised professional body , the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales , is best placed as a professional body , to supervise er this sector er an argument can be mounted and no doubt he may seek to use this debate to do just that , to say that er this should be the subject of some direct er rule from Whitehall . |
| 27 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 28 | It is intended to disseminate the results of the analysis to other police forces which may seek to develop rational systems of management in the future . |
| 29 | From time to time the indexer may need to consult external reference sources in order to achieve a sufficient understanding of the document content for effective indexing . |
| 30 | Barraga ( 1976 ) claims that ‘ In order to stimulate interest in visual development , and in learning to see more things , many children may need to spend some time visually investigating objects in the classroom or in the natural environment to broaden their visual experiences . ’ |