Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than let their cottages become occupied by potential sitting tenants , some farmers may prefer to let them to anyone but their own employees . |
| 2 | Many people when they have something to discuss may prefer to take it outside their family group to an old friend or a trusted adviser . |
| 3 | They may prefer to believe themselves to be special and different in their primary addictions rather than part of a wider group of sufferers from addictive disease . |
| 4 | Sometimes such material is simply tipped-in or stuck down on a blank ; the professional may prefer to inlay it on paper to match the size of the volume , which will often be fairly large . |
| 5 | Since wars involve others than those who face battle , that overwhelming majority who may prefer to have nothing at all to do with war , they can not , and should not , be omitted from any modern consideration of the subject . |
| 6 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 7 | You may want to choose one with a reflective strip incorporated into the design . |
| 8 | Now you may want to leave everything to your surviving spouse and then on to the children , that 's natural . |
| 9 | Well , yes they may want to do something about it , but they may be just too scared to give any details which would lead to something being done about it , I mean things can be done about it , but only if the child wants them done . |
| 10 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 11 | Tom will want to check for proteinuria and test your reflexes , but even if those things are normal he and Dr Greene may want to pop you in hospital for a while . ’ |
| 12 | You may wish to leave your monthly transfer at the same amount ; or you may want to amend it in the light of an increase in the cost of living or changes in your expenditure plans . |
| 13 | But anybody who inherits your spreadsheet in the future erm Anybody who inherits your spreadsheet in the future may want to understand something about it , so you 're obviously going to be a good source of providing that information . |
| 14 | The F-A will now decide whether it should take action against the men which may include banning them from football for life . |
| 15 | If she lives on her own and poor health has robbed her of a normal social life , it is to be expected that her loneliness may have created such a build-up of unexpressed thoughts , feelings and opinions that she may need to talk herself to a standstill before she is ready to converse with you , and interest herself in anything you have to say . |
| 16 | Read the instructions supplied with the card as if there are serial and parallel ports on the card you may need to configure them as LPT2 , COM3 and COM4 if those devices are already installed . |
| 17 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 18 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 19 | Erm missing procedures we have decided that Jenny is going to write T G I , Beety will write B T and we are going to write something on access and we may need to write something on erm Health and Finance and those documents we have got in the Master File . |
| 20 | If the graphics controller on your PC is part of the motherboard then you may need to disable it by removing a jumper switch , altering a DIP switch or running the BIOS setup program . |
| 21 | The charity is still in force today , but is used for grants for students and apprentices for books and any equipment they may need to help them in their careers . |
| 22 | At the end of the sequence , you may choose to close it with a fade out , but a straight cut to the first shot of the next sequence might be more brisk and businesslike . |
| 23 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 24 | Just watch a bat weave its way through the evening sky and you may begin to glimpse something of the world it perceives . |
| 25 | If this is so , then the church may begin to experience something of the grief of Jesus going ‘ through all the towns and villages ’ and being filled with compassion because the crowds ‘ were harassed and helpless , like sheep without a shepherd ’ . |
| 26 | You may like to compare it with a list of your own . |
| 27 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
| 28 | ( The tidy-minded may like to date it from Petrucci 's publication of Bernardo Pisano 's Musica … sopra le canzone del petrarcha which actually occurred in 1520 . ) |
| 29 | And I 'm just wondering what the the knock on effect of that is in the visiting of the , the members who ca n't get into church and who ca n't receive communion in church , and who may like to receive it in their home , or in the home , where they live . |
| 30 | Sister Paul , who was the author of several devotional volumes , wrote the special prayer : Heart of Jesus , grant that the eyes of the non-Catholic father of Thy little servants , Martha and Matilda , may be opened , that his tepid soul may become fervent , and that he may return to establish himself on his rightful hearth , Amen . |