Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The death certificate may need to be collected from the hospital , the death must be registered , friends and relatives must be informed and the funeral arranged .
2 For example , in credit transfer a certificate may need to be supported by a portfolio of evidence , while in APL some certification may be produced to support the portfolio .
3 As with external assessment in the primary phase , we believe that new methods of testing pupils ' reading skills may need to be devised , building on the best of GCSE practice .
4 Old unresolved conflicts may need to be exposed rather than hidden or disguised .
5 Some roads may have to be narrowed to single-track width in order to force lorries onto the central sections which are sufficiently strong to bear their weight .
6 ( WES ) So many people now descend on the Wye Valley every summer that conservationists say some roads may have to be closed at peak times to restrict the number of visitors .
7 Contrary to the general principles of distribution certain products may have to be restricted to named users who have special training .
8 It may therefore provide the incentive for the most thorough pre-purchase behaviour , and marketers hoping to supply such products may have to be prepared for extensive enquiry and investigation before they will manage to sell any of them .
9 ‘ Our concept is that although the building may need to be upgraded and restored , the inside is the most important factor .
10 It is only later that the effect of this spending becomes apparent and more money may have to be spent to reach an effect that is desired .
11 However , because no additional money has been made available to establish a central development fund to extend services in these areas , the money may have to be taken away from existing services in other areas .
12 ( 4 ) If it is proposed that the target , the offeror or any other person will make a payment to one of the target 's directors for loss of , or retirement from , office in connection with the takeover , then the payment may need to be approved by the target 's shareholders in general meeting in accordance with CA 1985 , s312 or s314 ( see para 8.1.5 below ) .
13 If the target language lacks a grammatical category which exists in the source language , the information expressed by that category may have to be ignored .
14 That some formality may continue to be required for certain controversial treatments should not be allowed to complicate the much more commonplace decisions that have to be made many times every day in acute hospitals .
15 The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow .
16 However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse .
17 This chapter continues the discussion of the relationships between research , policy and practice , demonstrating that political interests and values may pervade these relationships and that approaches to and uses of research in this field may need to be rethought .
18 ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time .
19 If so , this may take some time and finance to organise , and planning permission may have to be obtained from the local authority .
20 At this point permission may need to be sought from trusted advisers or respected family members to consider alternatives .
21 If so , either the parties most affected need attention , possibly through a change to the proposed reward patterns , or the pace of change may need to be slowed to give those most affected time to adapt .
22 Root Package Password If the above root package is password protected from the specified user , then a password may need to be specified for the LIFESPAN modules to be accessed , if the specified user is not in the same user branch as the module manager or a special link does NOT exist between the two .
23 Certain plants , however , pose problems every year , and their complete removal may prove to be the only solution .
24 The market in the countries of the CU may come to be dominated by producers in one of them .
25 At the outset , the plaintiff may be slow to contact a solicitor , negotiations for a settlement may drag on , the extent of the plaintiff 's injuries may not become clear until the end of a lengthy period of treatment , investigations may have to be carried out to ascertain the evidence , expert opinions may have to be obtained , communication and action by both sides may be poor and slow , the advice of counsel may be taken , pleadings are often extended , the length of time spent waiting for the trial to begin can be substantial , and errors may be made by the professionals involved .
26 The combination of methods utilized by smaller authorities may have to be different from those employed by larger authorities , but they have similar training objectives , and many similar needs , which should be recognized as such .
27 Under such circumstances speculative capital movements can not be relied upon to offset any temporary deficit on the current account because capital flows may prove to be volatile in an uncertain world .
28 But remember — the retailer may appear to be giving something away , but he 's in business to make sales .
29 To the casual observer , the tide may seem to be the only movement of water in the estuary .
30 Ultimately , a decision may have to be defended on judgement and so , particularly where decisions or recommendations are finely balanced , the consideration should be documented and , if possible , corroborated .
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