Example sentences of "[adj] they [modal v] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Worthing backs then showed how dangerous they could be by scoring two tries , but Alton were too far in front to be caught . |
| 3 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 4 | The authors speculate that this may be because , with a centralised collective bargaining system which is fairly remote from the workers , ‘ the less conscious they will be of the gains achieved , and hence the less likely they are to be credited to union activity ’ ( p. 109 ) . |
| 5 | The consent , acceptance or support of " the people " has increasingly become the principal source of legitimacy for governments and regimes , however authoritarian they may be in reality . |
| 6 | ‘ What makes you so sure they 'll be on this ferry , anyway ? ’ |
| 7 | On the political side , Taiwanese worry that the more money they invest in China , the more vulnerable they will be to manipulation by the Chinese government . |
| 8 | Traditional they may be by instrumentation , but the way in which they apply their collective noises is unique . |
| 9 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 10 | If possible they should be from more than one country . |
| 11 | Vain they might be at times , dangerous , vicious even , when the devil was in them . |
| 12 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 13 | If all this bland fare has dulled your appetite for the prints it is time you reminded yourself how glorious they can be by a visit to THE LUCY B CAMPBELL GALLERY , 123 Kensington Church Street , W8 . |
| 14 | So although the gamma ray background tells us that there can be no more than 300 primordial black holes per cubic light-year on average , it tells us nothing about how common they might be in our own galaxy . |
| 15 | These two images , however irreconcilable they may be on the surface , are , nonetheless , merely variants of a single conception of human beings and human behaviour , exemplars of a paradigm within which the character of human relations is seen not as growing out of human purposes and choices , but as determined by some natural state of human beings . |
| 16 | We can expect more statements in the coming weeks and months and I am certain they will be about more than the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales , which is not a grave legal or constitutional matter . |
| 17 | If your notes have CHIC they will be in an excellent form for fast and effective study and revision — one of the main reasons for making notes at all . |
| 18 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 19 | It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs , the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices . |
| 20 | But it would be stretching the meaning of citizenship to regard these rights — however desirable they may be from other points of view — as forming part of an enlarged ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 21 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 22 | It is too early to say exactly what powers the committee will have , or indeed how sympathetic they will be to the aim of preserving such areas , but this sets a dangerous precedent . |