Example sentences of "they may [vb infin] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may choose to jump on the bandwagon and agree with the decision that will be made anyway or they may choose to cosset disagreements . |
| 2 | They may prefer to take action against their minority who refuse to share rather than continuing to fight such innocuous users of the countryside . |
| 3 | After all , they may want to publish multimedia editions of their works themselves when the time is right . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wednesday have a problem with David Hirst injured but they may make take Roy Wegerle ( Blackburn ) on loan . |
| 7 | They may suggest asking Sheila what her worst fears are — for herself , her son or her husband ? |
| 8 | Second , they may wish to exploit advantages of scale . |
| 9 | ( For example , they may wish to increase staff at a time when government is committed to reducing civil service numbers . ) |
| 10 | On the contrary , they may like to see farm workers around the village to mark it as being ‘ truly rural ’ . |
| 11 | As they begin to remember their younger life and what their job was or the day they went on holiday to Margate , the more they may begin to make links with things happening today . |
| 12 | When the plan is being constructed and teachers are deciding upon success criteria for plans they may put searching questions and suggest additional ways to ensure that objectives become reality : if a school aims ‘ involve all pupils ’ are checks being made to see whether this is occurring ? |
| 13 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 14 | They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent . |
| 15 | Account executives must have a head for figures and a feeling for spending the client 's money wisely because they may need to explain costs at any moment . |
| 16 | Local authorities are also constrained in the proportion of capital receipts they may use to support capital expenditure . |
| 17 | Participants analyse examples of student writing and speech and , after discussion of the reasons for errors of different types , the session considers strategies that they may use to help students overcome these . |
| 18 | Alternatively , they may cross subsidise deals with their profits in other markets such as swaps . |
| 19 | Where centres are having difficulty with Learning Outcome 5 they may consider noting discrepancies on a discrepancy report form . |
| 20 | AIDS is an everyday topic in the papers and on television ; there is every chance that your children have become interested , even at a young age , but they may have misunderstood things and have some strange ideas . |
| 21 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In 1716 money troubles made the family move to lodgings in Salisbury , where they may have become friends of Henry Fielding [ q.v. ] and his family . |
| 24 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 25 | They may have noted gaps in the company 's roster of artists which need to be filled . |
| 26 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 27 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 28 | WHETHER or not the atomic bomb tests at Monte Bello affected the servicemen concerned there by radiation so that they may have developed forms of cancer is not proved and possibly is not susceptible of proof . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |