Example sentences of "[adv] they [modal v] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such claims can not be " explained away " ; if they do not reduce to ascriptions of certain attributes to certain entities ; if furthermore they can not be paraphrased simply in terms of knowledge , or translated into claims about the syntactical properties of certain expressions , the question is , how exactly should they be interpreted ? |
| 2 | But suddenly they ca n't be independent if they have er , er , a , an illness , a problem . |
| 3 | If politicians came to the conclusion that education was too important to be left to the educators , bear in mind the massive input of public resources , education 's failure to demonstrate significant improvement of standards , poor marketing , uncertain professional leadership and the fact that every year youngsters leave school ignorant of much they might reasonably be expected to know and lacking skills that could have been acquired in 11 years of schooling . |
| 4 | Should we go to an all-time record of 16 pages , shelve several articles or edit them all so much they would hardly be recognisable ? |
| 5 | Erm they perceive a need for this policy , er they have a a perceived structural changes in their economy and er there is resultant fear erm that perhaps they would not be able to respond flexibly enough er with the policies that are in place and see a need for this additional one . |
| 6 | And perhaps they would never be fully at his mercy again . |
| 7 | Maybe they just ca n't bear to contemplate it , or perhaps they 'll just be forced to wait . |
| 8 | Perhaps they could not be trusted ; they might run away . |
| 9 | Perhaps they could not be good wives and good mothers because they could not give what they had never had . |
| 10 | Perhaps they will simply be relieved to find that their own mental genotypes are ‘ healthy ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The question of whether all listed companies should be included was discussed by the committee but — and it 's a hard line , perhaps — if the directors ca n't fulfil the responsibilities of stewardship expected of them , then perhaps they should n't be listed companies . ’ |
| 12 | From a purist point of view if the terms of debate set by the study of an inner city problematic are illegitimate then perhaps they should not be addressed at all . |
| 13 | Obviously they can not be expected to vet all the publications they sell , and it would be grossly unfair to hold them responsible for libels of which they could have no knowledge . |
| 14 | Obviously they could n't be ridden on a mountain , but magazine articles and newspaper features began treating them as a status symbol , and so every airhead on a salary of over £20,000 a year rushed out to buy one and take it up a mountain . |
| 15 | I , produced a list of what 's already inside here , er , these calculate are the files registered , they 're not numbered so they would n't be registered , but they would surely |
| 16 | so they would n't be allowed to join |
| 17 | So they would n't be able to pay the tax would th they would n't . |
| 18 | So they would actually be in a lesson with tutors we would nominate who you 'd want them to go in with so I 'm not saying do it now you 've all got your programmes I assume , sorted for the first half term anyway an erm , pretty well tied up , should be erm so really it 's down to saying who they 're gon na go in with er |
| 19 | So they may not be aware of its history . |
| 20 | So so they will now be getting on with it fairly quickly . |
| 21 | they were n't , they were n't gentlemen so they could n't be er they could n't be officers . |
| 22 | So they must still be doing them and that was two huge boxes . |
| 23 | So they should still be around today . |
| 24 | Once they had begun working together they would both be calling her Kate , but now Dalgliesh gave her her rank . |
| 25 | There may be a good relationship between management and employees in most companies , but if people are not prepared to go down the road together they will not be allowed to go down the road at all . |
| 26 | Corporate executives could be incapacitated by imprisonment ; whilst inside they could not be victimizing employees , consumers , share-holders , or the general public . |
| 27 | Many wars have been started or sustained by the exploitation of religious beliefs , but even if this method of prolonging wars could be removed by a rationalised attitude to ‘ god ’ and religion , it does not necessarily follow that wars would never be started , but nevertheless they might well be greatly shortened . |
| 28 | And normally they wo n't be as easy as this , so you probably will be doing them on the calculator , so to do this you just do , erm one take away whatever the per centage is . |
| 29 | It would normally not name its clients ( for commercial if no other reasons ) and accordingly they would not be identified ; thus they can not be indirect customers . |
| 30 | Thus they will always be looking for ways of expanding their balance sheets provided this leads to extra profit . |