Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 2 | They may be for longer periods of time , for various investment purposes . |
| 3 | Desirable though they may be in special circumstances , I have always conducted a personal vendetta against glazed cabinets and patented bookcases with evil and malicious sliding and lifting glass panels . |
| 4 | They may be in attractive markets but poorly handled by the company or vice versa . |
| 5 | But it would be stretching the meaning of citizenship to regard these rights — however desirable they may be from other points of view — as forming part of an enlarged ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 6 | Research topics do not need to be immediately related to BP Chemicals operations but they must be on environmental matters . |
| 7 | So they must be on different sides . ’ |
| 8 | My father thinks they should be in curved lines . |
| 9 | In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily . |
| 10 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 11 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 12 | Although they might be in major shops soon , they 're presently only available from |
| 13 | Two very important indexing journals not always used as much as they might be by social researchers are the British Humanities Index and the Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin . |
| 14 | Then they would be like professional sailors , who , when the ship was caught in a storm , could not handle sails or rudders . |
| 15 | ‘ Local children can still come here and pay the low fees , but they will be in separate classes . |
| 16 | ‘ They will be in British shops within a month , ’ said a spokesman for International Marketing Partners . |