Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of modern machines have airbrakes which are held closed by a geometric lock , it is essential that the method of checking them must be foolproof for this kind of system . |
| 2 | I want one of them might be nice for Natty . |
| 3 | And although many of them might be poor in some ways , that did n't mean they had no money to spend . |
| 4 | I first realised that herbs could reproduce this effect — ; and later wondered if a lack of them could be responsible for some of the diseases that seem particular to fish of this area . |
| 5 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 6 | Dublin Docks companies operating in the International Financial Services Centre are similar to BCCs , but without the onerous turnover requirements , so they may be suitable for smaller multinationals . |
| 7 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 8 | Or , they may be involved in some form of ritual in which the lighted candle has a religious significance . |
| 9 | The source of these birds is not known , but they may be present from late August until April . |
| 10 | This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |
| 12 | Individuals may perform either role by itself ; or they might be active in both roles , and successfully at that ; or they may be strong in one but not in the other . |
| 13 | Recrystallized organic-rich fossils , such as renalcid microorganisms in reefs , may show up very well under UV , whereas they may be invisible in transmitted light and CL . |
| 14 | Although such studies give a great deal of information about the memory for individual arousing slides , they may be unrepresentative of normal situations . |
| 15 | In any event , firms will have to comply with the Bank of England 's Grey Paper relating to the wholesale money markets if they deal in them , even if they are not in fact listed institutions , and so they may be subject to two tiers of regulation . |
| 16 | There are often conical spinelets on both the dorsal and the ventral interradial plates , however , they may be absent from one or other side or even completely missing . |
| 17 | Barium studies including small bowel enema are rarely helpful in this group of patients , although occasionally they may be useful in younger patients who are found to have Crohn 's disease or a Meckel 's diverticulum . |
| 18 | Changes which , whilst they may be confusing to those of you seeking a place at university , poly or college , also offer advantages for all . |
| 19 | Where there is nothing to show that the parties have used language in any other than its strict and ordinary sense , and where the words interpreted in that sense are sensible with reference to extrinsic circumstances , it is an inflexible rule of construction that the words shall be interpreted in that strict and primary sense even though they may be capable of some popular or secondary interpretation and even though the most conclusive evidence of the intention to use them in such popular sense is tendered ( Enlayde Ltd v Roberts [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 109 : obligation to reinstate property destroyed by fire included an obligation to reinstate where the destruction was caused by incendiary bombs ) . |
| 20 | Within the schools , examples can be easily identified — they may be transitory in some cases , but they reappear in other forms at other times . |
| 21 | They may be unresponsive to ministerial suggestions , and they may make this opposition very clear through the local authority associations . |
| 22 | For domesticated felines remain ‘ part-kitten ’ all through their lives , and even though they may be middle-aged in feline terms they still look upon their human owners as their mothers . |
| 23 | If there 've been a whole series of articles articles about health or about food or something like that , no way are they going to do anything else on the subject , unless it 's , it 's brought in a very fierce readers ' letters column or something like that , in which case they may be open for another slant . |
| 24 | They may be delirious with constant talking and mania . |
| 25 | For those who think they may be sensitive to synthetic chemicals , the only sound method of diagnosis is to avoid chemical exposure as much as possible and see if the symptoms improve . |
| 26 | Then we may say that ( 59 ) and ( 60 ) are L-tensed , but M-tenseless and non-deictic ( although they may be non-deictic in different ways ; see Lyons , 1977a : 680 ) . |
| 27 | There is now increasing evidence that smaller cells of diameter 2–20 um have been seriously underestimated in energy budgets ; they may be responsible for half the total primary production in southern waters and no less in the north . |
| 28 | The important point , however , is that the two " likes " must be treated as like in some respect ; and in the linguistic cases this does not merely mean that the two items co-ordinated must be on the same level in terms of specific syntactic classifications , as has often been remarked ; more importantly , it is clear that they must be alike in both bearing one of the other relations , already introduced , to some third element ; thus , in : ( 38 ) Nora is Irish and beautiful the structure is such that Irish and beautiful are both related to Nora by assignment , while in : ( 39 ) bed and board is going to take half his wages the relation of instantiation links both bed and board to the single entity in the subject position . |
| 29 | The inverse functions of v that appear in ( 10.74 ) must therefore be excluded for colliding plane wave solutions since they must be regular along these boundaries . |
| 30 | Service personnel can be used in Antarctic work without contravening the Antarctic Treaty of Washington , but they must be involved in scientific and not military work . |