Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Busy carers may make good provision for the physical needs of the parent without considering how they must be feeling . |
| 2 | Midwives or health visitors may also need to advise on other family members ' needs to ensure they are not being overlooked , and these may include practical childcare for a newborn baby and the feelings of the partner adjusting to being a parent . |
| 3 | This may include out-of-school clubs for children who would otherwise return to an empty home , holiday schemes and special interest activities . |
| 4 | Firstly , an elder may display verbal consciousness for most of her or his day-to-day conduct , even if sometimes haltingly or with verbal expression impaired by physical conditions such as aphasia . |
| 5 | For example , she may be required to take an assessment of her nursing skills for examination purposes during the allocation , and may need extra help for this purpose . |
| 6 | First , the animal may need bright colours for social reasons — to attract a mate , repel a rival , maintain high status , or carry out parental duties . |
| 7 | For example , metal contamination is sometimes found in bore-hole water only at certain times in the year , possibly because of changes in the ground-water level , and normal sampling may show negative results for most of the remainder of the time . |
| 8 | However , we may insert other expressions for in the above integral and derive Voigt ( and similarly Reuss ) sums for these orientations . |
| 9 | Lady Laura was insistent : ‘ though we may feel deep pity for them , their trade is not one of blessing to the nation , to our fathers , sons , husbands ; you have to think of that . |
| 10 | Some critics of the Delors Plan have maintained that while the creation of a European currency union may reap net benefits for a number of EC member countries , for others membership of such a union will be positively harmful , at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 11 | Not all costs can apply to all species and some naturally outbreeding species may use other mechanisms for avoiding the costs of inbreeding , such as dispersal away from the natal area by one sex ( reviewed by Greenwood , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | As a detail of notation , if it seems useful to have a way to distinguish property-meanings from entity-meanings , then we may use round brackets for the former , thus allowing us to replace ( 7 ) by : We may also point out that the physical orientation of the arrowhead in our representations naturally reflects the direction of qualification , not the surface order of the instantiating elements . |
| 13 | Academic staff may use appropriate systems for the development of their computing expertise ; for research projects ; for the support of teaching ; for the exchange of academic information with their peers or with their students throughout the Janet linked institutions in the UK or elsewhere ; and for related access to public domain facilities . |
| 14 | NEW NETWORKS of computers , which swap information about individuals , may become fertile ground for information thieves , says the latest annual report from France 's data protection commission . |
| 15 | Material objects may become temporary substitutes for important relationships , like the mauled soft toy or ragged piece of blanket in childhood , but it is only when relationships with ‘ things ’ rather than people become an established pattern for ‘ shutting out ’ that there is cause for concern . |
| 16 | While this indicates that the language young children hear may provide useful input for learning the rules of grammar , it does not , of itself , rule out the need for an innate ability to process speech sounds ( Gleitman and Wanner 1982 ) . |
| 17 | Families in the rural areas or in the countries of emigration may provide financial assistance for some of their unmarried males to travel many hundreds of miles to seek employment . |
| 18 | MAS 's performance at this stage and at subsequent meetings represents an opportunity to raise the profile of MAS which , if we impress sufficiently , may provide future work for MAS and KPMG in general . |
| 19 | Residential accommodation The local authority may provide residential accommodation for persons who ‘ by reason of age are in need of care and attention which is not otherwise available to them ’ . |
| 20 | Such a recent letter , easily faxed , may provide sufficient data for an unfamiliar doctor or team to cope until notes are found , and if letters are stored as a cumulative file on a word processor a fairly complete history may easily be obtained from a secretary . |
| 21 | The contents of shareholder agreements may provide important protection for minority investors . |
| 22 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 23 | Relatively little is known of the systematic knowledge which local peoples have of forest species and dynamics , and of the various patterns of traditional extraction and their consequences , yet it may provide vital information for those concerned with effective forestry , medicine , nutrition and plant product development . |
| 24 | Producers may favour one-man shows for economic reasons , but that does n't in itself mean that the audience is being short-changed . |
| 25 | The second part considers how interactions between the child and her linguistically more competent caretakers may create privileged opportunities for language learning , and thereby constitute a form of environmental support for the child 's mastery of language . |
| 26 | We also saw that meeting the needs of all these clients may create ethical problems for the nurse . |
| 27 | The tropical and sub-tropical ice caps are now melting at such a rate that they will soon be gone , says Thompson : " Consequently , the climatic and environmental records from these regions , which may contain key information for understanding our climate systems , will be lost permanently . " |
| 28 | O'Connell points out that even boundary treaties may contain other provisions for the performance of reciprocal rights and duties , a factor which prevents their easy categorisation as a dispositive or personal treaty with specific legal consequences . |
| 29 | When this complication does occur these days ( and the only reports are from the United States ) it may necessitate open-heart surgery for the replacement of the defective valve . |
| 30 | Another authority may publish total amounts for primary schools , secondary schools , continuing education . |