Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [to-vb] [art] [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 | Well it 's harder than you may think to make a copy of your dick . |
| 3 | Peter Dale ( 1989 ) talks of ‘ defensive practices ’ where managers may choose to play safe in order to avoid criticism ‘ if anything goes wrong ’ , whereas their staff , more closely in touch with children and families , may prefer to employ a strategy of rehabilitation . |
| 4 | If he feels very unsafe , because the traffic is moving fast , he may prefer to ask a passer-by to help him across the road . |
| 5 | You may prefer to use a flannel to clean this area , as this will afford greater control . |
| 6 | Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet . |
| 7 | Non-hippies may prefer to take the cathedral town of Wells as a base . |
| 8 | You may prefer to fix the matchboard across the narrowest width of the room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Kits may be borrowed from local hire shops , or you may prefer to share the cost with a number of neighbours or friends . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In any particular case , a number of good reasons may exist to encourage the publication of the criminal 's perspective . |
| 16 | If we are successful in identifying these the opportunities may exist to prevent a situation that is desperately difficult to cure . |
| 17 | If you have Economy 7 and can use the lower-price electricity during the night , you may want to choose a machine fitted with a delay button . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | When you have n't had time to prepare , however , you may want to leave the item just where it is . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You may want to take the advice of your Consulate . ’ |
| 23 | Here the material will be used in the spoken rather than written form and you may want to rephrase the information accordingly . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In this case you may want to analyse the language as well as learn to speak it . |
| 27 | You may want to join a club and work out three times a week or you may simply decide to walk to work instead of going by car or 'bus . |
| 28 | In the same way a horse may want to touch a person that it likes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |