Example sentences of "may [verb] [verb] such [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The current ideology of devolution may favour letting such schools , along with all the others , sort out their own affairs , but that is hardly fair to their teachers , still less to their pupils . |
| 3 | In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text . |
| 4 | Watkins L.J. , in Berry ( No. 2 ) may have had such dicta in mind when he stated , |
| 5 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 6 | Detectives trying to trace the vans — a Ford Transit and a Bedford — have appealed for information from anyone who may have sold such vehicles in recent weeks . |
| 7 | This may involve suggesting such employees take early retirement or making them redundant . |