Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 2 | In delirium they may go into a stupor and even unconsciousness with twitchings sometimes , of one side ; head rolling ; pupils maybe contracted or dilated ; eyes red ; face flushed , red . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 9 | The other approach is to let the TB take its course in the badger population and compensate farmers for losses they may suffer as a result of TB spreading to their cattle from the badgers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity . |
| 12 | If your superiors get wind that you are feuding with a fellow employee , they may intervene in the hope of sorting the problem out . |
| 13 | They may intervene in the work of some departments but only at the cost of neglecting broad strategy and the work of others . |
| 14 | A larger number of bigger girls and women were in waiting at one of the locks , where the passengers are politely informed they may walk for a mile ; they had large pitchers and small jugs , and we are all favoured with pressing invitations to have ‘ sweet milk . ’ |
| 15 | If poor quality replacements have been fitted they may react with the brake fluid . |
| 16 | Without shelter or shady places they may cower in the corners . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As they try to find out who they are they may experiment with a number of different modes . |
| 24 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 25 | They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There are also carefully planned strategies to cope with emergencies and the victims of major travel accidents , wherever they may occur in the world . |