Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be stored in bins or sacks , loose on the floor , or in silos . |
| 2 | They may be deprived of skills and they may receive less stimulation than , say , middle-class English children , but inside the Asian family they get plenty of security and love . |
| 3 | Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy . |
| 4 | The lack of such a maximum at Cape Grim leaves open the possibility that they may be caused by phenomena other than , or in addition to , increased transport from the stratosphere in springtime , such as enhanced photochemical production of ozone at that time . |
| 5 | … to seek for Christ 's sheep that are dispersed abroad , and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world , that they may be saved through Christ for ever . |
| 6 | They may be coerced by others |
| 7 | They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten . |
| 8 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 9 | They may be adopted with confidence by retailers of any size , private training providers including government contractors and colleges of further education . |
| 10 | They may be heated by steam coil , electric immersion heater or gas and provide a hot rinse and disinfection capability . |
| 11 | They may be seen as evidence of the insidious creep of sport climbing ethics into the mountains , but used sparingly they eliminate an unwanted and unnecessary risk and cause less visual intrusion . |
| 12 | They may be seen as clauses of allographs , as phonemes can be seen as classes of allophones . |
| 13 | They may be seen as steps in the transition from the Family Practitioner Services being purely ‘ administered ’ services to being an actively managed service . |
| 14 | They may be completed by individuals or small groups . |
| 15 | In our society the judges have in some aspects of their work a discretionary power to do justice so wide that they may be regarded as law-makers . |
| 16 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 17 | Some cases are susceptible to medical treatment , some require intensive nursing care , most respond to education and training and a small minority may be so severely impaired that they may be detained in hospital or placed under guardianship . |
| 18 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 19 | The effects may be visual or verbal , in sound or music ; they may be obtained by trick photography , by the use of Quantel computer trickery , or by clever selection of elements of sound or picture : Ariston 's use of a Nintendo-style soundtrack to achieve an ( allegedly ) hypnotic effect , a rash of commercials using operatic arias , the use of music by Hamlet cigars , Rutger Hauer in the Guinness campaign , the talking animals in the Electricity commercials . |
| 20 | Bach Flower Remedies are available from many health food shops or they may be obtained by mail order from the Bach Centre in Oxfordshire , England ( see page 133 ) . |
| 21 | You do not have to be getting income support to apply and in exceptional circumstances they may be given for fuel costs . |
| 22 | When such changes are induced in the germ cells , they may be transmitted to descendants of the irradiated persons . |
| 23 | For teenagers , that they may be blessed with wisdom and discernment , and choose those audio and video cassettes which enrich the spirit and bring true joy to the heart . |
| 24 | Prior to maturity they may be exchanged for shares of the subsidiary which , at the option of the bondholder , are either immediately redeemed or immediately exchanged for ordinary shares of the parent . |
| 25 | they may be tackled by individuals or by a group ; |
| 26 | The remainder are in effect , although they may be called from memory with the READ PALETTE prompt from the PATTERN instruction in the main menu bar at the top of the screen . |
| 27 | They may be followed on Topic ( page number 45339 ) , Oracle and Ceefax . |
| 28 | She is afraid they may be displayed in court as evidence after they were stolen from a photographer . |
| 29 | Because food chains are simple , minerals absorbed into primary production settle in sediments where , in the absence of decomposers and detritus feeders , they may be lost to circulation . |
| 30 | However , if you attempt to arrest any man or woman here on a charge of vagrancy I will see they are defended in your court — and in any higher court to which they may be sent for trial . |