Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [verb] [prep] be [adj] " 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 | You may want to be sure a certain heirloom — perhaps worth little financially — will be passed on to a particular person . |
| 3 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 4 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 5 | You may have to be firm at times during these early days , especially at night . |
| 6 | You may have to be careful . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They may need to be bulky and unsightly in large tanks . |
| 9 | ( also known as education social worker ) Education welfare officers liaise with Social Services Departments and are responsible for the general well-being of school children , not only ensuring that they attend school regularly but also dealing with grants , allowances and services which they may need to be able to attend ( e.g. clothing , transport , free school meals ) . |
| 10 | In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored . |
| 11 | It may pay to be early at Catford where Dromina Duke looks the part in the second race . |
| 12 | It may need to be tailor-made , and therefore it 's best left to the experts . |
| 13 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 14 | It may prove to be restrictive unless used very flexibly . |
| 15 | In the average home sized aquarium it may prove to be necessary to isolate a particularly large specimen as the risk of losing other fish from predation and poor water quality will be high . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) At the hearing the arbitrator may adopt any method of procedure which he may consider to be convenient and to afford a fair and equal opportunity to each party to present his case . |
| 17 | He may need to be able to use apparatus , and generally speaking science teachers are accustomed to explaining necessary points about its use and keeping a close watch on safety . |