Example sentences of "may be [prep] need " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet many small and medium companies can not give very much in the way of resources and may be in need of a great deal for themselves . |
| 2 | The mouth may be in need of care if a person has suffered from one or more of the following : |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , your elderly parent shows a quite uncharacteristic withdrawal from her normal concern for you and for others and is totally obsessed in an agitated fashion with herself and her own troubles , over a long period , you should begin to wonder if , in fact , she is suffering from a true depressive illness and may be in need of medical help . |
| 4 | The Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 says that where a child has been detained in a place of safety , and the Reporter considers that the child may be in need of compulsory measures of care , he shall , wherever practicable , arrange a children 's hearing to sit not later than in the course of the first lawful day after the commencement of the child 's detention to consider the case . |
| 5 | The provisions of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act make the following statutory requirements of case managers : ‘ Where it appears to a local authority that any person for whom they may provide or arrange for the provision of community care services may be in need of any such services , the authority ( a ) shall carry out an assessment of his needs for those services and ( b ) having regard to the results of that assessment , shall then decide whether his needs call for the provision by them of any such services . ’ |
| 6 | Organisations with charitable status operating in a particular field often acquire knowledge and expertise which can prove extremely valuable to individuals who may be in need of that sort of advice . |
| 7 | She may be in need of advice — or perhaps financial help . |
| 8 | This project investigates a major application of standardised testing in primary schools : to identify children who may be in need of special attention or teaching . |
| 9 | Police say they 're anxious to trace the mother as she may be in need of medical help . |