Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of important questions need to be asked , with all the tact at your command ; some of them may be best addressed to an articled clerk who is already with the firm . |
| 2 | Many of them are under review and some of them may be virtually ignored in practice . |
| 3 | And Durham force head Frank Taylor pledged that if he was successful in persuading the Home Office to allow him to recruit an extra 20 officers then all of them would be directly employed on the streets in the sub-divisions . |
| 4 | Durham Chief Constable Frank Taylor pledged that if he was successful in persuading the Home Office to allow him to recruit an extra 20 officers then all of them would be directly employed on the streets in the sub-divisions . |
| 5 | they may be clearly demarcated from men ; and |
| 6 | With Cardinals there is no defined colour difference between the sexes , but they may be easily sexed by body profile . |
| 7 | By the physiologist within his special and well defined universe of discourse they may be properly regarded as epiphenomena ; but by the naturalist in his more catholic survey of nature they can not be so regarded . |
| 8 | Although they are regarded as parts of the pleura they may be conveniently referred to here on account of their close association With the wing attachments . |
| 9 | They may be conveniently divided into three groups according to host ; those occurring in pigs , in sheep and goats , and in the domestic carnivores . |
| 10 | They may be physically attached to the front cover of the publication , slipped between the pages or offered on the editorial pages . |
| 11 | Shivraj Jadeja and John Singh show how they may be double penalised under the Community Care Act |
| 12 | They may be further exaggerated by the way the client communicates with others . |
| 13 | As Buschbacher et al. ( 1987 ) have pointed out , it is doubtful if many of the pastures that were created in the eastern Amazon basin in the 1970s ( section 7.3.1 ) , and have since been abandoned , w ill ever return to forest : they may be permanently covered in heathlike vegetation . |
| 14 | They may be fully stretched by the cognitive demands attending to input ; accessing the lexicon and syntactic knowledge ; discriminating differences in the referent array ; relating verbal input to the visual array ; making a selection ; and so on . |
| 15 | What sustains him throughout is his recourse to certain fundamental principles of order and authority which , although they may be tangentially related to his espousal of Christianity , have their roots much further back in his own past and particularly in his early study of Bradley and Maurras . |
| 16 | The judicial statistics of the late nineteenth century provide more precise information , but they must be carefully assessed in light of the social , economic and administrative settings which produced them . |
| 17 | If signs are to be effective for user orientation , they must be carefully planned with regard to position , content and presentation . |
| 18 | And therefore they must be carefully looked after . |
| 19 | If rocks are a feature , especially those positioned vertically , they must be firmly bedded in concrete , which can then be disguised by gravel . |
| 20 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 21 | It is a complex if naive set of attitudes , including the beliefs that human beings have free will , that they must be strictly disciplined by restrictive rules , and that they should be harshly punished if they break the rules or fail to respect authority . |
| 22 | But these that do it they must be bloody experienced at it they could do it so quick as they was doing it . |
| 23 | Generally speaking , lateral water hazards run parallel with the line of play of a golf hole and they should be clearly marked with either red stakes or red lines . |
| 24 | Look for details on delivery charges , they should be clearly marked on all ads . |
| 25 | Look for details on delivery charges , they should be clearly marked in all ads . |
| 26 | They are determined that as port facilities move seaward no part of the inner city areas of the Port should become derelict , but that they should be immediately regenerated for property and leisure activities . |
| 27 | They should be carefully lifted in clumps , teased apart , and then pricked out into conventional plastic trays and submerged so that the compost is about 2.5 cm ( 1 in ) beneath the surface of the water . |
| 28 | If other tapes were used they should be properly marked with the final number of tapes used . |
| 29 | If other tapes were used they should be properly marked with the final number of tapes used . |
| 30 | Journalists can do little about legal costs and insurance , but they should be well versed in the legal defences which give them more latitude than is commonly thought . |