Example sentences of "[conj] may [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eden 's remedy was to encourage departmental ministers to bring to Cabinet or Cabinet committee ‘ any questions which are likely to occasion public controversy or criticism or may need to be carefully explained to the Government 's supporters in Parliament ’ . |
| 2 | Occasionally there is a strong reason for weaning from the breast as the mother may want to return to work , or may need to be separated from the child for some reason . |
| 3 | There is some role conflict when the librarian educated in a tradition of user-helping and support finds a situation calling for regulation ( even law enforcement ) that may appear to be a negative role . |
| 4 | After primary school , the encouragement of the imagination in children , and the cultivation of specifically creative activities , has often been thought an optional part of the curriculum , a luxury that may have to be dispensed with , left in , if at all , for the less able pupils deemed incapable of serious learning or for that minority determined to reject ‘ scientific ’ understanding . |
| 5 | Third , can booksellers make a greater profit using their shelf space for displaying electronic products than the book stocks that may have to be sacrificed ? |
| 6 | So here , for the fraught and confused among you , is a short guide to male restaurant etiquette that may prove to be of some assistance . |
| 7 | Examples of emotions that may need to be expressed are : |
| 8 | There will , of course , always be certain competencies or aptitudes that may need to be tested , e.g. colour blindness or spatial awareness . |
| 9 | But it does mean that cross-addiction is a factor that may possibly be of some influence in all of this and that it is a factor that may need to be taken into consideration in the long term in attempting to improve the over all quality of recovery . |
| 10 | Tony Benn is clearly not able to resolve the position of the monarchy within our system but he highlights a problem that may need to be confronted at some point in the future . |
| 11 | Very high rates of extensional flow are therefore required in order to extend polymer chains , the criterion for the critical strain meaning that may need to be about . |
| 12 | It can not be useful to talk about population growth ( Nature 362 , 379 ; 1993 ) as a ‘ threat to the global commons ’ that may need to be ‘ dealt with by coercion ’ before it becomes bothersome to ‘ the rest of us ’ , which I assume means those of us lucky enough to live in countries where contraceptives are readily available . |
| 13 | It is also one of the factors that may need to be taken into account in controlling advertisements and in determining whether a discontinuance order should be made . |
| 14 | The drafter should therefore consider a wide range of precedents , to consider the different matters that may need to be dealt with , and the different ways in which individual problems can be overcome . |
| 15 | By either course we need a considerable background of information that may seem to be largely useless until the creative moment arrives . |
| 16 | They can be sluggish in movement , especially as they grow older , and may tend to be stubborn and inflexible as children . |
| 17 | SuperShow is an excellent example of Shareware at its very best and may prove to be invaluable to both the business and educational user . |
| 18 | The majority further contend that a wife who has reported a rape by her husband to the police may subsequently regret having done so and may wish to be reconciled with him . |
| 19 | Some of the modern hymns have a very shallow doctrinal content and may need to be rejected for that reason , whatever their other virtues . |
| 20 | Staff need , however , to strike a delicate balance between giving optimistic support and encouragement on the one hand and accepting on the other that some individuals do not wish to , or can not , change as a result of disability and may need to be helped , therefore , to cope with permanent social impairments and distressing symptoms . |
| 21 | Be aware of the fact that the last word may sound different , especially if it is a tone language ( list intonation ) , and may need to be listened to in another position in the list . |
| 22 | The grammar and lexicon may be incomplete for the task at hand and may need to be supplemented . |
| 23 | The preferred approach is likely to vary between countries , depending both on market characteristics and corporate profiles , and may need to be modified slightly in the light of subsequent deal structuring recommendations . |
| 24 | Of course , organisms have to survive and may need to be , to have erm fitness in the sporting sense in order to have reproductive success . |
| 25 | Refusal to sit is often associated with constipation and soiling and may have to be taught before bowel movements can be encouraged . |
| 26 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 27 | Firstly , the amount of DMS required to achieve a suitable extent of methylation is a function of the concentration of DNA and protein present and may have to be substantially increased when probing complexes formed in the presence of large excesses of competitor DNA or protein . |
| 28 | Eunice Paxman , chairwoman of the National Care Homes Association , predicted that some SSD contracts with residential homes would be placed under further strain and may have to be renegotiated . |
| 29 | The third group thinking that Mr Clinton is its man is harder to define , but may prove to be the most troubling of all for him . |
| 30 | These are available in various dosages , but may have to be made up specially to deliver the required dose . |