Example sentences of "may have take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And if we are not satisfied with his answers we may have to take things further , possibly with a disciplinary hearing . ’
2 Here , performance and practicality may have to take precedence , Several conventions have been created to aid readability and structure , ranging from the use of particular variable names , through the fixing of line numbers for types of routines , to the use of prepared ‘ standard ’ routines from a ‘ library ’ .
3 Although debates may have to take place after 10 pm , the Leader of the House might care to bear in mind that debates at earlier times on major matters would be more appropriate .
4 Training may have to take place at the principal 's manufacturing plant and such training should form a compulsory part of any agreement .
5 But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’
6 Payments under this scheme do not affect any legal rights you may have to take action for any loss or damage sustained and do not constitute an admission of liability on our part .
7 At the end of it there 's the chance that we may have to take action ; we 'd take that very much as a last resort , and we hope our customers will respond without the necessity for fines or prosecutions .
8 Some of us may have taken part in an academic survey ; most of us will have taken part in the census .
9 Police believe four men may have taken part in the grudge attack though they have been told there may have been as many as 10 .
10 He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time .
11 He may have taken pity on her and bought her a drink , at the same time buying a little companionship for himself , easing the ache of his loneliness .
12 Those who could read may have taken advantage of some of the ideas of a local Elizabethan agricultural writer , Leonard Mascall of Plumpton , who wrote three textbooks on the arts of husbandry ; most farmers probably continued much as their forbears had done , producing a growing farming surplus more by accident than by conscious design .
13 This produces pages of transcription which are carefully scanned in the hope that for one brief second some minor indiscretion may have taken place .
14 The real competition , the old-style conception of the battle for survival , may have taken place , if it took place at all , between the plants that provided the reptiles with their food .
15 This is my second Way of Life seminar , so I have missed discussion which may have taken place at earlier seminars over the definition of ‘ way of life ’ .
16 Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake .
17 It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn .
18 Or the defendant may be a multinational bank , carrying on business here , but all the dealings in question may have taken place at an overseas branch .
19 A first parish may prove to be perfectly satisfactory , or the formation of the ordinand 's understanding and attitudes in respect of worship may have taken place before theological training .
20 They will argue that such job creation as may have taken place is temporary and artificial , that the cost of achieving even this was too high and that it would have been cheaper and industrially more advantageous if people from development areas had been forced or encouraged to move to the prosperous areas .
21 From the economic point of view , the problem is that in most cases the US antitrust process is concerned with deciding whether conduct has been illegal , rather than with the appraisal of the economic consequences of whatever conduct may have taken place .
22 The Secklow hundred mound in Milton Keynes is the only hundred meeting place which has been excavated , and no study has been carried out which might indicate that in addition to the courts other activities may have taken place , like markets and fairs , the collection of customs and dues , or religious ceremonies .
23 We must , however , now accept that these plans are developments from the original forms and that great changes may have taken place before we get to the earliest arrangement we can distinguish .
24 In the north we have seen that this village planning may have taken place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries .
25 Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time .
26 So I suggest that something a little more sophisticated may have taken place .
27 A substantial similarity between programs , however , can suggest that one has been copied from the other and this can shift the burden of proof to the defendant , especially if there is something else to support the view that copying may have taken place , such as access to the original program by the defendant , see L.B. Plastics Ltd. v Swish Products Ltd. [ 1979 ] .
28 Promotions to abbacies and bishoprics were probably often the subject of competition between important families , and canvassing and intrigue may have taken place both locally and at court .
29 You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) .
30 Congregations will insist on hearing candidates preach sermons which may have taken weeks to prepare or to speak more correctly which some of them never prepared , whereas they forget that a man 's work in his own parish is the best possible testimony as to who and what he is , and one that can easily and accurately be ascertained .
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