Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
| 2 | At all events the rent from them must have been very considerable . |
| 3 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 4 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 5 | Wycliffe reviewed possible candidates : among them the women , Cathy Carne , Marcella Tate , and Anna Brooks-any one of them would have been physically capable of committing the crime and sprinting away afterwards . |
| 6 | Velázquez 's name , for example , would have been familiar to very few Mexicans in the seventeenth century , but as the only artist authorised to execute likenesses of the King his official portraits of Philip IV and the innumerable engravings after them would have been well known . |
| 7 | They may have been well trained , but they were n't match fit . |
| 8 | The rumours must have reached Richard 's ears — indeed they may have been primarily intended for him . |
| 9 | They may have been exactly that , but it was difficult to see . |
| 10 | If you are buying from a friend it may be worth obtaining an independent assessment in order to avoid the risk of either side feeling that they may have been unfairly treated . |
| 11 | An appeals procedure to local committees provides for those who believe they may have been unfairly excluded . |
| 12 | In reality , they may have been more anxious and worried than they showed . |
| 13 | Sufficient examples are now known , sometimes in association with religious precincts or else with significant concentrations of third- and fourth-century coins , to suggest that they may have been more widespread . |
| 14 | For a start , Britain has to an extent been forced by the rules and practices of the EEC artificially to divert her exporting efforts to Europe and away from where they may have been more beneficially employed for her in the rest of the world . |
| 15 | In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence . |
| 16 | They may have been politically naive in character and open to attack , but their proponents desired to ensure that sound scientific knowledge under-pinned all actions to protect wildlife resources . |
| 17 | They may have been so er the |
| 18 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |
| 19 | The fact that they show little grief does not mean they are unmoved , but they may have been less inclined than are many women to see their relationship with their partner as the fulcrum of their lives . |
| 20 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 21 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
| 22 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 23 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 24 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 25 | While they must have been closely linked , it would help if we could distinguish between the circulation of such goods and their deposition in graves , for it is the latter which is actually being studied . |
| 26 | So they must have been pretty good . |
| 27 | Once they must have been dead level , but not for long It was Student Cross that had really swept him out of her reach . |
| 28 | Well they must have been just well they must have I did n't see them |
| 29 | They must have been easily satisfied in those days , I should think . ’ |
| 30 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |