Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 2 | Winnicott observed that such ‘ transitional objects ’ were important , precisely because they may appear to the infant as not fully part of the external world , and therefore not entirely separate from the child 's own body . |
| 3 | If someone dies in hospital , they may rest in the hospital mortuary , or the funeral director will arrange for the body to be taken to the chapel of rest . |
| 4 | Technocrats are ‘ statists ’ who consider that state policies are available to manage all social problems , although in selecting solutions they may lean to the right ( favouring market management and abhorring the inefficiencies of state socialism ) or to the left ( deploring the waste of social resources under capitalism ) . |
| 5 | It is relatively easy to legislate against CFCs — but they may persist in the atmosphere for 100 years , and so will continue to build up ; and it is far harder to suppress N 2 0 production . |
| 6 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 7 | They may lead to the award of a masters ' degree , a postgraduate diploma or certificate , a post-experience diploma or certificate , or a second degree . |
| 8 | Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity . |
| 9 | If your superiors get wind that you are feuding with a fellow employee , they may intervene in the hope of sorting the problem out . |
| 10 | They may intervene in the work of some departments but only at the cost of neglecting broad strategy and the work of others . |
| 11 | If poor quality replacements have been fitted they may react with the brake fluid . |
| 12 | Without shelter or shady places they may cower in the corners . |
| 13 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 14 | They may feel at the time very sincere about their forgiveness but if that is all that happens the old feelings of misunderstanding and bitterness can swiftly recur . |
| 15 | Defendants are entitled to give evidence of their honest state of mind , and to explain why their dominant motive , irrespective of any dislike they may feel for the plaintiff , was to comment on a matter of public interest . |
| 16 | This research aims to examine how case and thematic systems may differ in non-related languages ( English and Hungarian are studied ) , and how they may change in the course of the historic development of a given language . |
| 17 | They may provide for the position of the institutional equity investors in respect of warranties on a flotation , in particular , whether or not they would give warranties in the offer for sale agreement to the merchant bank leading the flotation . |
| 18 | Losers may be aggrieved for a number of reasons : they may disagree with the findings of fact , statements of the law , award of damages , or even the way the case was conducted . |
| 19 | If the night is very cold or the middle of the day extremely hot , they may retreat to the galleries below ground level where the temperature does not vary so much . |
| 20 | Words flung out in temper , for instance , do not carry lasting conviction although they may wound at the time , whereas a calm statement , arising from inner knowledge , is likely to come from the centre of one 's being and to hold fast . |
| 21 | Students may complete the course at diploma level , and if they attain a satisfactory standard in the diploma examinations , they may proceed to the masters ' course . |
| 22 | They may occur to the discoverer in a flash of inspiration , as in the mythical story of Newton 's discovery of the law of gravitation being triggered by his seeing an apple fall from a tree . |
| 23 | There are also carefully planned strategies to cope with emergencies and the victims of major travel accidents , wherever they may occur in the world . |
| 24 | Evil men may be reborn as sub-human animals , but virtuous men have at least the prospect that they may escape from the cycle of rebirths into the nirvana of final extinction . |
| 25 | The market position of women is related to the period that they may withdraw from the labour market to have children . |
| 26 | But the Football Association are unlikely to make a decision on his three-year reign until they return from the trip to America , and they may delay until the FA summer meeting in Bournemouth on June 26 . |
| 27 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 28 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 29 | However , EPHOS is not expected to impinge upon the UK 's own GOSIP profile , ‘ EPHOS is at a higher level , ’ according to the UK 's Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency , although it admits that ‘ they may merge in the future , but we 're talking about four or five years . ’ |
| 30 | Knowing that these and similar things are being said , in order to commemorate past deeds , so that they may come to the notice of future generations , I have not been able to hide the struggles of the wicked or the lives of those who have lived righteously , even in much uncultivated speech . |