Example sentences of "[pron] may use " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression , ) but that if the judgment of the visitor be ever so erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
| 2 | In Rex v. Bishop of Ely , Lord Kenyon C.J. refused the rule upon this ground , and says , ‘ It was settled in Philips v. Bury , in which determination the profession has ever since acquiesced , that this court has no other power than that of putting the visitatorial power in motion , ( if I may use the expression ) ; but that if the judgment of the visitor be erroneous , we can not interfere in order to correct it . |
| 3 | I may use them on Mrs occasionally . |
| 4 | Is my hon. Friend — if I may use that term — sure that a solution put forward in this House would be accepted in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic ? |
| 5 | We may say , ’ Eat your heart out ’ to Norman , to Peter , to William , to Austin and to others , if I may use just first names . |
| 6 | The Government have cut unemployment benefit 11 times since 1979 , making a cumulative ’ saving ’ — if I may use that word — at the expense of the unemployed , of £5 billion to £6 billion over the past decade . |
| 7 | There has been real rudeness on the part of poll tax Patten , if I may use that unparliamentary way of describing him , but everybody knows who I mean . |
| 8 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 9 | This is only a reflection of larger areas of the church above , that 's if I may use that phrase , which is happening . |
| 10 | The confusion yields when we realize that we have to do with a limited area , however large , and that the ‘ unionists ’ , if I may use this term , made the mistake of extrapolating the ambiguity and interchangeability within this limited area to the whole scope of Mozart 's staccato notation . |
| 11 | The methodology if I may use the word I dislike it intensely erm questionable point . |
| 12 | ‘ If I may use your telephone , then I 'll ring my surgery and get someone to bring the vaccination cards in right now . ’ |
| 13 | She says I have just bought this pram from a jumble sale and I am thinking I may use it as a flower pot and maybe make some model babies out of flowers . |
| 14 | Now if I am a good reporter , in a sense I 'm going to let the original question flow past me as a starter , I may use it , I may not use it . |
| 15 | In which towns nearby are there industries which may use this limestone for the purposes stated ? |
| 16 | Somebody may use standard enquiry facilities within the accounting system , they may use the report writing tools that are provided with the accounting system or they may use other things , Forest and Trees , Lotus , Excel , so on and so forth which run on their P C which they know and which they love . |
| 17 | the tendency to privilege the category of ‘ youth ’ , because , for some time now , young people have spent a disproportionately large part of their disposable income on leisure commodities such as records ; this leads to neglect of older age-groups who may use different musics and use them differently ; |
| 18 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 19 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 20 | My treatment of intonation is based on the belief that foreign learners of English at advanced levels who may use this course should be given training to make them better able to recognise and copy English intonation ; the only really efficient way to learn to use the intonation of a language is the way a child acquires the intonation of its first language , and the training referred to above should help the adult learner of English to acquire English intonation in a similar ( though much slower ) way — through listening to and talking to English speakers . |
| 21 | You may use strapping as a temporary measure , and while this will inevitably reduce freedom of movement , it is the price you must pay for carrying on . |
| 22 | You may use the coupon to indicate which of these brochures you are interested in . |
| 23 | If you have any belief in God and a life hereafter ( or whatever other words you may use for that concept ) , then surely that is the one place where there has to be true forgiveness . |
| 24 | You may choose to circle them very lightly with a soft pencil which can easily be erased later or you may use a highlighter pen — it rather depends on how precious the book is ( and , indeed , whether it belongs to you ) . |
| 25 | You may use the Home 's facility to prepare snacks and beverages . |
| 26 | You may use your imagination to decide what will be digitized . |
| 27 | If you have a gas oven , you may use a special lighter wand to spark it off . |
| 28 | Let's look at the situations where you may use music as a producer of an audio visual work : this could be a wedding video , tape/slide programme or an all-singing , all-dancing drama/documentary for a broadcaster . |
| 29 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 30 | If you have an Access or Visa card you may use this to pay for your holiday and should complete the form . |