Example sentences of "may have [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have to close some roads to traffic and make them pedestrian only . |
| 2 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 3 | If your dog persists in misbehaving when the doorbell is rung , then you may have to take alternative action . |
| 4 | These trips are expensive and women may have to take young children hundreds of miles . |
| 5 | But some of the alleged failures may turn out to be actual failures , and the Institute may have to take disciplinary action against the firms in question . |
| 6 | The producer may have to insist that Production Company A is more suitable to make the film than Production Company B. Perhaps because of the show-business nature of producing for TV , creative teams can want to take charge which can prove a disaster . |
| 7 | She may have to undergo more surgery to have the implants removed . |
| 8 | At first you may have to represent this contradictoriness chronologically , in the manner of ‘ At first the corridor frightened me , but later I came to love it , its hatpegs , its long coats to hide behind . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Third and finally , spillovers may be most extensive in high R&D sectors simply because firms may have to do extensive R&D on their own in order to benefit from the knowledge which spills over from rivals ' efforts . |
| 11 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 12 | May have to return next year , depending on finances . |
| 13 | You may have to give accurate instructions about how to assemble do-it-yourself furniture . |
| 14 | This apart , a judge may always consider or vary any decision before " the Order has been perfected " , meaning before it has been sealed and sent out ; he may have to give further opportunity to be heard , if he is going to make a change , see Note to Ord 5 , r 5 . |
| 15 | In weak party systems politicians may have to give considerable weight to popular opinion and pressures from vested interest . |
| 16 | Shoes should be smart but comfortable , for receptionists may have to spend many hours on their feet . |
| 17 | Already they have found that growers who want to invest in water collection and recirculation systems may have to spend considerable sums on facilities to clean up the water . |
| 18 | On the other hand , over-reliance on an open labour market also had disadvantages involving the amount of time taken to recruit extra workers , the need to train new entrants and the possibility that firms may have to bid higher wages to attract labour . |
| 19 | City banks may have to wait another year or so . |
| 20 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 21 | Note that if these DCs reference more than one module , you may have to create new DCs to perform the work in different packages . |
| 22 | IBM says that at present , these users may have to use separate terminals to do their work . |
| 23 | If it is not in your library you may have to use inter-library loan , if this service is available to you . |
| 24 | You may have to use live Guppies and Goldfish before weaning onto dead foods . |
| 25 | It is recognised however that PC(a) requires pupils to identify a variety of viewpoints on the issue , and therefore they may have to include differing views . |
| 26 | You may have to organize different kinds of help in the home , if the patient has been doing tasks and housework . |
| 27 | Indeed , in some situations , the child may have to exploit this interdependence to infer the reason on the basis of information about the result , while continuing to maintain the reason/result distinction . |
| 28 | Pearce has been told he may have to sell top players such as David Leworthy , the league 's leading scorer , or Dean Coney in a bid to balance the books . |
| 29 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 30 | When choosing this item bear in mind that you may have to walk long distances , so check the padding on the harnesses and straps for comfort . |