Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For independent advice where the adviser is making a selection from all the products on offer , the investor may prefer to seek an adviser authorised by the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association . |
| 2 | An interviewer may want to persuade an interviewee to join their company ; the main objective of a presentation may be to persuade your audience to buy a service you are selling . |
| 3 | The middle-aged may want to preserve an order they are accustomed to , or perhaps their careers . |
| 4 | Secondly , embarrassment may be a reason for not reporting a crime ; victims may want to hide an offence rather than report it . |
| 5 | If you have very specific qualifications and abilities in mind then you may need to devise an application form of your own . |
| 6 | The trade associations would continue to monitor the situation , and , while they had so far funded the ‘ Do n't Tax Books ’ campaign ‘ from the petty cash ’ , ‘ we may need to launch an appeal fund in due course ’ , Mr Hitchin said . |
| 7 | One day you may need to eat an organ of your enemy in order to interrogate him or her , especially if that enemy is alien . ’ |
| 8 | By following this procedure , you will enable us to deal with your complaint promptly and you may expect to receive an acknowledgement within 14 days . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) A licensing board may decline to consider an application if the applicant or his representative does not attend the meeting at which the application is to be considered : |
| 10 | Except in the eases of applications for the renewal or permanent transfer of licences , a licensing board may decline to consider an application where the applicant or his representative are not in attendance at the meeting at which the application is to be considered ( subs . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , provided that he has , or may appear to have an influence on the decision given , then that will be sufficient to render the determination invalid . |
| 12 | In fact , you may begin to get an inkling now , er , in terms of some of the words that you wrote down there . |
| 13 | The creation of a ‘ front ’ without sharing power may suffice to secure an agency 's legitimacy and respectability , but it may be necessary to share power and so succumb to external pressures . |
| 14 | A speaker may decide to present an element as given even when there is no sufficient reason to assume that it is in the addressee 's consciousness . |
| 15 | A POLICEMAN shot twice in the back early today may have disturbed an IRA bomb plot , senior officers believe . |
| 16 | Some patients may have recorded an episode of faecal incontinence as a bowel movement , before the beginning of retraining . |
| 17 | Spokesman Andrew Davis said : ‘ We believe freak weather conditions may have caused an inversion , but it is difficult to be certain at this stage . |
| 18 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 19 | One corner of England 's dressing room may have resembled an Army field kitchen but this arrangement will now continue for the rest of the Test as England battle for a draw and try to stay fit and well . |
| 20 | The pair produced two eggs in their eyrie in Haweswater , Cumbria , but experts fear twitchers may have breached an exclusion zone set up by the RSPB . |
| 21 | The destruction of nearby Epidauros ( Cavtat ) by the Avars in the mid seventh century , and of Salona , near Split , some thirty-five years earlier , may have contributed an influx of Romanised refugees who swelled the population of a pre-existing community of Slav fisherfolk . |
| 22 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 23 | In Anselm 's choice of Eadmer as his constant companion , Osbern may have seen an assurance that his hopes for the revival of Canterbury 's past might yet be fulfilled . |
| 24 | This may have strengthened an impression that occurs frequently to his critics , one of relentless eccentricity most manifest in forgetfulness . |
| 25 | This problem is not confined to night-workers , but also affects those on early shift ( 6 am. to 2 p.m. ) who may have to allow an hour to get to work . |
| 26 | They realize they may have missed an event . |
| 27 | And , to mix a metaphor , France 's lame ducks may have become an albatross around his neck . |
| 28 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 29 | 1.27 In any case involving serious and lasting injury , the plaintiff 's solicitors may have to instruct an accountant to calculate past and future pecuniary loss . |
| 30 | You may have cancelled an appointment , disappointing your friend , who now complains loudly and aggressively that you are an uncaring suit-yourself sort , whose commitment to friendship is purely selfish . |