Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 2 | They may even claim some capabilities in assisting the promotion and marketing of food . |
| 3 | Perceptions of the quality of their own early work tend to decline as they attain seniority and experience , and they may well attach less significance to the value of other theses to their own work . |
| 4 | Do n't throw any two products into a bucket and mix them ; they may well destroy each other . |
| 5 | They may also make such shareholders " insiders " . |
| 6 | They may also prevent some enzymes from working properly see p 233 ) . |
| 7 | They may also receive some comments post-publication . |
| 8 | They may also follow some mortification or hurt feelings . |
| 9 | While history teachers would wish to eschew the more brash sales methods they may nevertheless welcome some guidance on appropriate methods and strategies for promoting their subject . |
| 10 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 11 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 12 | They may not have much impact on the result of Namibia 's election . |
| 13 | These are such things as jealousy ( like my experiences of it ) and also if you are friendly with a popular person , they may not have enough time to get to know you as they are too absorbed in other friends . |
| 14 | They may not sell many plastic macs or pairs of 60s kinky boots , but with a 70s revival in the air Oxfam shop volunteers are being swamped with requests for clothes like this . |
| 15 | The Regulations for manual records make the position much easier to administer for the school though they may perhaps cause more family friction . |
| 16 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 17 | Equally , many people sell their house and move somewhere smaller without taking account of the fact that when they are spending more time at home they may actually want more space , rather than less . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , businessmen are generally optimistic and see the increase in demand as a signal for further increases , they may actually buy more machines than predicted by the accelerator theory . |
| 19 | They may then have more flexibility as to who is allowed to be the greedy one . |
| 20 | ‘ They may still have that radio and I can handle one of those things . |
| 21 | ( 1986 ) sustained a more basic view , that physical space is a constraining factor in conurbations ; if firms have limited land for horizontal extensions , then , as more machinery brings a steady expansion of space needed per employee , they must either employ fewer workers , or move out . |
| 22 | If someone has , then they must also have some interest in our interest . |
| 23 | They then count , but they must not say any number that is a multiple of seven or has a seven in it . |
| 24 | Flowers will look at their best if bulbs are placed close together in the bowl , but they must not touch each other . |
| 25 | They must not keep such gifts to themselves . |
| 26 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 27 | And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks , construing as scruple what in fact is timidity . |
| 28 | They must then communicate these targets to other people in the organisation . |
| 29 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |
| 30 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |