Example sentences of "[pron] may have to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The quantities of waste water are often great , so that a treatment plant designed to cope adequately with them may have to be large and therefore expensive to install .
2 It means that vital decisions have to be made quickly at an extremely difficult time for the mother , decisions which may have to be made from an ill-informed base .
3 The change in string tension when changing brands will probably be more noticeable if your guitar is fitted with a tremolo system , which may have to be readjusted slightly .
4 Many families have only one car which may have to be reserved for the use of the nurse 's spouse and others have no car at all .
5 Only when these avenues have been exhausted should the manager discuss the possibility of sanctions which may have to be imposed if attendance does not improve .
6 It makes some sense to argue that an animal needs less computing power to find leaves , which are abundant all around , than to find fruit , which may have to be searched for , or to catch insects , which take active steps to get away .
7 There are also resealing or ‘ antisiphon ’ traps which may have to be fitted on extra-long waste pipes connected to a single-stack drainage system .
8 Sandison finds that the probability of citation will be halved by the transfer of library material to the Reserve Stock shelves , which may be at some distance from the main library shelving , or which may have to be fetched from remote stores .
9 Less costly on the nose is a letter to the ticket office in which you enclose a cheque , which may have to be blank , and an sae .
10 No longer can investigative stories be stopped merely because they might " prejudge " a matter which may have to be decided in litigation at some future time .
11 The responsibility for the use of the firearm is an individual decision , which may have to be justified in legal proceedings .
12 Mr Simon Montgomery , administrator of the Brighton Unemployment Centre , which obtained a copy of the review , said yesterday : ‘ We are establishing a new category of people who may have to be outside the welfare net — people with mental health problems who form part of the new underclass . ’
13 On the one hand , you have the country 's premier club in the process of spending a small fortune to reconstruct an ageing team : on the other , a Second Division side thriving on young , home-grown talent who may have to be sold to Liverpool and other members of the wealthy elite .
14 Once you have identified the points that are going to be crucial in your particular job , you may have to be persuasive if you want improved safeguards built into your agreement .
15 You may have to be firm at times during these early days , especially at night .
16 You may have to be careful .
17 We may have to be in touch again .
18 Then after half a year we get the tapes and they go back and we say that something may have to be changed .
19 In any living venture , it is impossible for any of the partners to be detached from the natural dynamics of working together in the project and there may have to be a realignment of membership during the course of the enterprise .
20 There may have to be some tough decisions .
21 For this reason , if shelter sheds are placed in a paddock , they may have to be placed at the top of the hill and preferably near the gate .
22 And they may have to be adapted to receive radioactive medical and industrial waste that is currently dumped in the Atlantic each year .
23 Indeed , they may have to be muzzled as a precaution .
24 They may have to be read in the open air , in rain and darkness or within a plant under oily , cramped , poorly lit conditions .
25 Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’
26 Indeed , they may have to be manufactured to exact customer specifications .
27 We 're going to try some further measures to get the temperature down and they may have to be a little drastic . ’
28 In the circumstances they may have to be melted down . ’
29 Three gypsies were arrested but the police admit they may have to be released without charge , because no one who was injured is prepared to make a complaint .
30 It may have to be accepted that recurrent brief admissions are a necessary part of the long-term care of such a patient .
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