Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media ( at least in those countries where media , and particularly television , play a major role ) are an important factor in upholding the patriarchal myth , even though they may subtly shift their ground here and there . |
| 2 | They may yet get their wish when Premier League II comes along . |
| 3 | While they are unlikely to be successful with the woodcut and the copper-plate , they may well achieve their ambition with some other processes . |
| 4 | Apparently they have already made up their minds , to separate one of the odder , although at times stimulating , hybrids of the museum world : the Tate as the gallery of British art and the Tate as the gallery of modern art , and they may well unveil their decision then . |
| 5 | As far as J P Woods is concerned Chairman , erm , they may well have their workforce , and extended right up |
| 6 | Whilst they may compete quality scientists away from local firms , they may also enhance their knowledge and broaden their research horizons and perceptions . |
| 7 | They must also record their position in the limb , and this may mean that they have both to measure accurately the concentration of a morphogen , and measure time . |
| 8 | While there is no general duty imposed by law upon employees to cooperate with their employer , they must not betray their employer 's trust , for instance by giving away trade secrets . |
| 9 | However , where the directors are together the majority shareholders , they must not abuse their voting control to discriminate against the minority . |
| 10 | Justices should be reminded that they must not delay their decision . |
| 11 | Practitioners should never act like a puppet ; they must never focus their attention solely on the hands while neglecting the movements of the waist and legs , which are the main weight-bearing parts . |
| 12 | They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform . |
| 13 | They should not assume their tape will get passed on . |
| 14 | Given the policy of restraint we believe that they should provide enough land to meet requirements , they should n't base their figure on past overtake . |
| 15 | The first of these proposes that where partners or senior employees of a firm intend to join an audit client company , they should immediately inform their firm of their employment plans and take no part in the audit of their future employer , and that connections with the firm should be severed . |
| 16 | After a while people get tired of hearing the same old thing and they 'll eventually turn their back on it if they hear enough of it , and they 'll turn to something else — like rap . |
| 17 | Those who do not share the dewy youth and slenderness of Kate Moss will only look older and more swollen if they adopt the ‘ new ’ look ; but if they do n't and stick to the Lacroixs and the YSLs they 'll still look their age , so it 's a no-win situation for the power dressers . |
| 18 | they 'll still get their money in the end |
| 19 | They 'll all go their Summer holidays . |
| 20 | Even the WBC , the governing body that insist they 'll now give their title to Lewis , would have been been appeased by such a compromise . |
| 21 | People are led to believe they might not get their mail if they use the townland . |
| 22 | When civic and other dignitaries assume their badges of office or members of orders of chivalry their decorations , they might well enhance their satisfaction by reflecting on their debt to the only seemingly remote hierarchs of Byzantium . |
| 23 | The pot-bellied tosser told me that the club wished to make a gesture in recognition of all I had done for the ‘ Stiffs ’ during my spell as manager , and after much discussion it was agreed that they could best show their appreciation by raising the price of my season ticket for next year by 25 per cent . |
| 24 | ‘ Them pusillanimous popinjays , they could n't find their way to skinning a cat on their own , ’ he sneered . |
| 25 | ‘ Bet they could n't believe their luck . ’ |
| 26 | Or the couple who are suing because they could n't sell their house on account of the plutonium in the vacuum-cleaner dust ? |
| 27 | If the house was above the road , it came from it , and cross 'd the way to run to another ; if the house was below us , it cross 'd us from some other distant house above it , and at every considerable house was a manufactory or work-house , and as they could not do their business without water , the little streams were so parted and guided by gutters and pipes , and by turning and dividing the streams , that none of those houses were without a river , if I may call it so , running into and through their work-houses . |
| 28 | For example , 80% of female personal service workers said they could not design and plan important parts of their work ; 96% said they could not decide their starting and finishing times ; and 63 % said they could not initiate new tasks during their work . |
| 29 | When the assessments became final , they could not lose their character as alternative assessments and the Crown had to elect to enforce one . |
| 30 | When Mr John Guy , an orthopaedic surgeon at the Worcester Royal Infirmary , wrote to people on his waiting list to say that health authority cuts meant that they could not have their hip replacement operations , a patient passed a copy of his letter to Nicholas Ridley . |