Example sentences of "[adj] they [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | People might not understand , you know how peculiar they can be . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 3 | The latter was reluctantly agreed to by Betty who thought that ‘ when one group sees another doing something more exciting they 'll be discontented ’ . |
| 4 | How brave they must be . ’ |
| 5 | As the final election results come in from all over the country , it is clear they will be helping to run many Soviet towns and cities . |
| 6 | As yet nobody knows what its ramifications will be , though it is clear they will be enormous . |
| 7 | Unfortunately we have little time for digressions however entertaining they might be . |
| 8 | Politicians of all parties should realise how foolish they can be . |
| 9 | In the event of both protagonists in a conflict being identifiable with the wrong — that is , with the parental — values , the protagonist who most closely approximates to them will be protested against and the other , no matter how objectively wrong they may be , will be totally vindicated and absolutely right . |
| 10 | And how close and how far wrong they will be , she thought numbly . |
| 11 | Substances which are required nutrients , micro-nutrients , copper and zinc are required as micro-nutrients by plant cells for example , would show distributions like this de decreased levels in surface waters where er in the photic zone biological activity is high they 'll be continually stripped out of the water column there in the concentrations then increase as biological activity decreases and then becomes constant with depth . |
| 12 | Where the cliffs are high they may be undercut by the sea with the result that most of the material may be removed by the subsequent collapse of the upper undermined section . |
| 13 | If we 're not careful they 'll be demanding single table bargaining and they 'll be then putting us in the minority in local authorities and we 're gon na see this union under tremendous offensive as a quarter of our membership in local authorities , so we need to get our act together and get on top of this now . |
| 14 | But if you can raise that profile which I talk about , the of the ethics of of your trade , your profession and become , in effect , a pressure group , a pressure group for the public good , while we may not always agree with you , and indeed we 're going to say that we do n't agree with you and you must n't be afraid of that but we would rather hear from you , you 're the men and women at the sharp end , I hesitate to say ‘ experts ’ because ‘ expert ’ is a , a rather over-used word but we 'd much rather hear from you , at the sharp end , than the part-time politicians who , by the very nature of , of their role , and however well-meaning they may be , they have other priorities . |
| 15 | To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths , no matter how underhand or devious they might be . |
| 16 | Records will be read into primary storage , their keys will be transformed by the algorithm being used , and if the address the algorithm produces is free they will be stored in that address on the direct access device . |
| 17 | Now , that would have been a W I committee day so we 've had to alter the committee to the Tuesday , so I 'm afraid they 'll be no handy craft on Tuesday the first of December . |
| 18 | He had clearly been afraid they might be used against him after Samantha 's release . |
| 19 | She is afraid they may be displayed in court as evidence after they were stolen from a photographer . |
| 20 | For crampons to work effectively and be reliable they should be maintained correctly . |
| 21 | However , there is no reliable algorithm for the identification of relevant scripts , or when the new scripts should be activated , or how detailed they should be ( or indeed how they could be efficiently acquired ) . |
| 22 | Again it 's doubtful they 'll be ready to sign anything on that er I think also the shadow of Lithuania is very much over this and Mr Bush is obviously not wishing to er box himself into a corner at this stage while the Lithuania crisis is still open . |
| 23 | However different they may be from those involved in habituation , the training procedures used in studies of acquired distinctiveness necessarily involve the subjects in receiving repeated exposure to the critical stimuli . |
| 24 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 25 | Despite signing the odd turkey , in the uncharacteristically naive belief that if they were English they must be good , Souness dismantled the old Ibrox Calvinism , and replaced it with a corporate attitude finely attuned to the modern world . |
| 26 | Three men , unemployed they must be , on the bench near the gate , smoking pitifully thin rollies , brighten up as she rushes past . |
| 27 | None the less , it is surely true that it will be difficult to reach firm conclusions from comparing experiments which , however similar they may be formally , use quite different subjects , stimuli , and training procedures . |
| 28 | These were not the driver ants of my childhood nightmares , however similar they might be , but remote , New World cousins . |
| 29 | Leaks of genetically-engineered E. coli could legally go , unreported — however dangerous they might be . |
| 30 | I did n't know how dangerous they can be , and you did n't tell me ! ’ |