Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 2 | On the capital side , this meant that instead of all residential units being costed as if they would be ‘ new build ’ , twenty-five of them could be sited in existing buildings . |
| 3 | They may be hampered in the efficient winding up of your affairs by the limited powers Parliament gives to the next of kin in these circumstances . |
| 4 | They may be stored in bins or sacks , loose on the floor , or in silos . |
| 5 | Therefore , in any year , they may be expensed ( when they have generated revenues ) or they may be stored in the balance sheet ( for example , as closing stock , when they have yet to generate revenues ) . |
| 6 | Now members of LA 's rock ‘ aristocracy ’ , they may be viewed in some quarters as an anachronism but no-one could deny that they can still draw the big crowds in a way that would make many a ‘ hip ’ band envious . |
| 7 | Since they may be determined in a way favourable to the defendant , there is no need to decide any other complaints he might have about the conduct of his trial . |
| 8 | They may be advertised in local newspapers or on local radio . |
| 9 | But they may be hoping in vain . |
| 10 | Similarly , for juvenile offenders , the ‘ care order ’ under which they may be detained in an institution is for an unspecified period ; again , release is determined by rehabilitative , treatment criteria . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They may be written in a college course or in the practice of a profession . |
| 13 | They may be deployed in a variety of circumstances to greater or lesser effect . |
| 14 | As they may be engaged in a wide range of adult activities , such as cooking , shopping and so on , their dependence on others for safety is especially important to recognise . |
| 15 | A description of personality traits is beyond the scope of this book , but they may be categorised in a simple manner under three headings , thus : * role traits : which are those parts of the personality which determine how an individual will react or behave in particular situations , and will react to the expectations of others in that situation . |
| 16 | All courses are validated by the University of Wales and , as the college is bilingual , they may be followed in either Welsh or English . |
| 17 | She is afraid they may be displayed in court as evidence after they were stolen from a photographer . |
| 18 | They may be imposed in the form of obligations of strict liability to which defences are extremely limited or in more general and voluntary concepts of negligent omissions and commissions . |
| 19 | They may be compared in this respect with the wider legislative powers delegated to the licensing board by s.38 , in connection with the making of bye-laws . |
| 20 | At present they are manufactured for Canon under licence by Sussex-based Audio Electronics , but eventually they may be made in the UK by Canon itself . |
| 21 | For it suggests that they may be penalised in future for environmental damage which was legal at the time they allowed it to happen . |
| 22 | They may be expressed in terms of overall expenditure and cost per item and include comparisons with historic expenditure and budget expectations . |
| 23 | They may be set in the everyday life of 2000 years ago and , therefore , seem somewhat remote from modern times but the meaning of them is still true . |
| 24 | They may be sown in spring or autumn and undersown to a ley . |
| 25 | If the flavour of this solution is too strong , they may be soaked in milk before use . |
| 26 | Proceedings begun by originating application or petition may be subject to specific enactments or rules , but otherwise they may be commenced in the court for the district in which the respondent or one of the respondents resides or carries on business or in which the subject matter of the application is situated , or if no respondent is named , in the court for the district in which the applicant or petitioner or one of them resides or carries on business ( Ord 4 , r 8 ) . |
| 27 | But they may be used in reconstructing the former profile of the river and therefore in deriving the sea level to which the river was graded . |
| 28 | They may be used in both hands simultaneously , and chords of two or three notes can be played by the left hand in harmonics if the notes lie close together . |
| 29 | They may be found in the petals ( rose ) , the leaves ( eucalyptus ) , the wood ( sandalwood ) , the fruit ( lemon ) , the seeds ( caraway ) , roots ( sassafras ) , rhizomes ( ginger ) , resin ( pine ) , gums ( frankincense ) , and sometimes in more than one part of the plant . |
| 30 | Sometimes such instructions are in the main schedules , but on other occasions they may be found in one of the other Tables , for example Table 1 or Table 4 . |