Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " 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 | Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet . |
| 3 | Non-hippies may prefer to take the cathedral town of Wells as a base . |
| 4 | You may prefer to fix the matchboard across the narrowest width of the room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Kits may be borrowed from local hire shops , or you may prefer to share the cost with a number of neighbours or friends . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In any particular case , a number of good reasons may exist to encourage the publication of the criminal 's perspective . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | When you have n't had time to prepare , however , you may want to leave the item just where it is . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You may want to take the advice of your Consulate . ’ |
| 16 | Here the material will be used in the spoken rather than written form and you may want to rephrase the information accordingly . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In this case you may want to analyse the language as well as learn to speak it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Right , so , you know , there 's no econo-matrixes by no means the science and you can essentially get the computer to er tell the story that you want simply by choosing er critical values but nevertheless we 've re probably be reasonably confident in our estimate , particularly if those estimates , we 'll just go back to them , er the er display the regression results again , display them again but those coefficients are elasticities , right , they 're cored with our a priori reasoning right , we put ah , unit elasticity , you may want to test the hypothesis that the elasticity on erm the income variable , that income elasticity is significant given one , just generate computer a T ratio in the hypothesis value being one instead of zero , as in a normal T test , right , and that coefficient point nine five is sufficiently close to one , by looking at the standard error to er further that is an estimate of one you 've got very inelastic er demand erm for the , the textiles , that coefficient , is that the time , I ca n't believe it if that 's all , oh no that 's eight , do n't worry |
| 25 | However , if you have a mirror and need to cut it to size , drill holes in it , or smooth , bevel or polish the edges , you may want to tackle the job yourself . |
| 26 | The organization hiring the programmer or consultant may want to own the copyright so that it can exploit the resultant program itself , or it may simply want to prevent its competitors from obtaining a copy of it . |
| 27 | In the light of the report 's findings you may want to discuss the matter further . |
| 28 | You may want to change the format , say from Video 8 to VHS , so that it can be played back on your table-top VCR , or to convert the sound track from hi-fi to a linear edge track which can then be edited by audio dub . |
| 29 | In this case you may want to centre the pattern around the centre of the machine even if this means mismatching side seams . |
| 30 | The bank manager may want to reduce the business 's overdraft if it assigns security over its debtors to a factor ; and the factor 's fee may be too costly for businesses that work on very fine margins . |