Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little is known about the effect of different care settings on the children 's education though the fact that many foster parents and residential staff have had limited educational opportunities themselves may influence them in the importance they attach to the children 's success in school . |
| 2 | In examining these conflicts and changes the particular aims of the researchers are to : elucidate the changes that occurred in the UK defence science and technology system in the 1980 's and to analyse their dynamics and interactions ; ii identify and examine the assumptions about the future being made by firms and governments to guide their current decision-making in this area ; iii consider whether clear and stable structural trends are emerging , and the factors that may influence them in the 1990's , including the transition to a single European market ; iv establish a better framework for assessing contemporary developments in defence technology policy and their consequences for other areas of science and technology policy . |
| 3 | We have shown how group frequencies derived from experience with other molecules may be used to suggest assignments for particularly characteristic bands , and how the use of isotopes may assist us in the deduction of molecular structure and of the types of atoms involved in each mode . |
| 4 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
| 5 | If we do not need all that DP equipment now we may need it in the future . |
| 6 | If they are predominantly female , and 83 per cent of part-timers are , the equal pay legislation may entitle them to the same benefits and conditions as their full-time colleagues . |
| 7 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 8 | They identify people who need counselling help and may refer them to the priest or minister ; they recognize their own rituals as important aids to grieving . |
| 9 | whatever and maybe if it 's a good correspondence course they may refer you to the actual you know things you should have er read and so on |
| 10 | If your complaint is about the actual treatment you have received from a doctor or dentist — a clinical complaint — the officer may refer it to the Regional Medical Officer for you . |
| 11 | Once an agreement has been registered in the register of restrictive agreements ( which is open to public inspection ) , the Director General may refer it to the Restrictive Practices Court for a decision on whether the restrictions it contains are contrary to the public interest . |
| 12 | They may do it with the help of the symbols of the church , or the language of the Bible in the orthodox way . |
| 13 | A good performance in the ‘ B ’ or regional squads may bring you to the attention of the national coach , and may also result in your promotion to the élite squads . |
| 14 | She was very impressed and there is a possibility we may stock it in the future along with other similar species buyers are currently investigating . |
| 15 | If an action is begun in the wrong court , that court may transfer it to the court with appropriate jurisdiction . |
| 16 | Its practical object is to gain access to certain documents disclosed by the Police Complaints Authority ( ‘ P.C.A. ’ ) by order of this court for use in a criminal appeal , so that C.N.L. may use them in the libel action . |
| 17 | Since f is a function of λ which vanishes at the eigenvalues , we may use it in the Newton-Raphson method to obtain an improved approximation |
| 18 | If , after filtering the clones , a probe having more than 2 ( N — 1 ) neighbours is found , it is reported as a ‘ suspect ’ one and the user may remove it from the analysis and repeat the procedure . |
| 19 | Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election . |
| 20 | You may see them during the summer when they rest in Britain . |
| 21 | Look , you may see it past the abbey . ’ |
| 22 | I may see you on the same plane . ’ |
| 23 | I may see you in the shop one of these days . ’ |
| 24 | Come to us , God of love , that we may see you in the poor , the sick and the rejected . |
| 25 | It is imperative to project the true image of the Middle Eastern churches to other faiths who may equate us with the West and a potential western-led crusade against Islam . |
| 26 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 27 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 28 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 29 | I shall not be gratified for a benefit , although I may return it in the hope of future benefits ; similarly I shall not avenge injuries except as a deterrent to future injuries . |
| 30 | ‘ You may thank me for the breakfast , ’ McAllister said , sitting down to attack her own meal with vigour , ‘ but the weather — now that , alas , is beyond me . |