Example sentences of "they may [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may prefer to take action against their minority who refuse to share rather than continuing to fight such innocuous users of the countryside . |
| 2 | Occasionally , however , they may want to pass information about you on to other companies so they too can offer you things you might be interested in . |
| 3 | Second , the instruments used for white middle-class parents may not be equally appropriate for black parents because they may fail to take account of different subjective experiences and racial and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 4 | On the contrary , they may like to see farm workers around the village to mark it as being ‘ truly rural ’ . |
| 5 | They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent . |
| 6 | Local authorities are also constrained in the proportion of capital receipts they may use to support capital expenditure . |
| 7 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 8 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 9 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 10 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 11 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 12 | Furthermore , they may have to accept work further away from home than they are accustomed to travelling , which may in itself present child care problems . |
| 13 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 14 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |