Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At some stage the history teacher may want to tap into some of this . |
| 2 | Those who are interested in doubt only from a practical standpoint may want to pass from this definition of doubt as doublemindedness directly to an examination of the categories of doubt in part two . |
| 3 | Alcohol Concern ( 1987 ) suggests that older people who have been regular drinkers may need to reduce by half the quantity of alcohol they consume . |
| 4 | The coding frame for each question should have been constructed at the pilot stage except for open questions where we may need to look at all responses to decide on groupings . |
| 5 | Commuters read paperbacks as they sit in trains , but find that they may need to rest from this activity more frequently than when they are reading in a comfortable and well-lit place at home . |
| 6 | Some people may not want to send Christmas cards or eat meat at least once a week ( two of Townsend 's indicators of conventional British life ) : the implication is that Townsend grossly exaggerates the incidence of poverty because he ignores the fact that people may choose to do without such things . |
| 7 | If universal education is a genuine ideal ; if , unlike the Greeks , we may claim to believe in such a thing as a democratic intellect , then we must stop thinking of a kind of people , a ‘ work-force ’ who will obediently slot into the place society has for them , trained as a kind of technological army . |
| 8 | Fans may aspire to progress through this hierarchy , and within each group certain role positions are open . |
| 9 | Having trained in private practice , you may decide to stay in this field , in which case , when qualified , you will become an assistant solicitor . |
| 10 | Sociologists may attempt to improve on this by detailing specific areas of behaviour in which they are interested : how people behave in families , why some people are involved in crime , why some children perform better at school , and so on . |
| 11 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 12 | They face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages or of retraining , in either event , they may have to move to another part of the country . |
| 13 | One may have to resort to that favourite escape , recourse to a compound hypothesis involving the effects of different agents at different times in the past . |
| 14 | With no help around , you may have to resort to another tactic — a risky one : going to ground . |
| 15 | If all this fails , you may have to resort to another tactic . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the VHD project is now on ice , and the company may have to look for another video-disc format . |
| 17 | Derby start 2-1 down to Cambridge and Villa defend the same score at Wolves , where Taylor may have to trust in another piece of sports sagacity . |
| 18 | You may have to assist in this . |
| 19 | The ability to extract is rare precisely because it may have to cut across these obvious parts . |
| 20 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 21 | For example , if the tenant has the right to break if the local planning authority refuses to renew a temporary planning permission he may wish to appeal against that refusal . |
| 22 | The landlord will require a return on the land value ; the tenant will require a return on the costs and risk of development ; and both parties may wish to participate in any super profit . |
| 23 | But there may be legitimate reasons for incorporating a company which is intended to remain dormant indefinitely or for retaining on the register a company which for the time being has ceased to carry on business but which the members may wish to use at some time in the future for the same or some different business . |
| 24 | The break-up specialist may have an interest in retaining certain parts of the company or he may wish to dispose of all of it to other companies . |
| 25 | As modern , high-tech society moves on ( at whatever pace ) , it may come to rest in another equilibrium , of skills , where the qualified population is evenly balanced by an underclass of servitors : and missing is the layer of middling qualified people who would otherwise release the elite to produce innovative movement . |
| 26 | I suspect that , apart from being a most interesting fish for the hobbyist , at some time in the future scientists may come to look upon this fish as particularly interesting because of its many divergences from the normal Mbuna characteristics — in its habitat , less boisterous behaviour , relatively mute coloration , size dimorphism , sexual precocity , large brood size and small fry . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Employment may care to comment on that later . |
| 28 | We all carry a few purely personal mysteries , some of which will never be solved in this life , but may continue to gnaw for all our years . |
| 29 | Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused . |
| 30 | Some of these worms may also secrete anticoagulant , and small vessels , ruptured in the digestion of the mucosal plug , may continue to bleed for some minutes after the worm has moved to a fresh site . |