Example sentences of "they may [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incredibly even if the person who set the snare is found out they may be beyond the reach of the law |
| 2 | It is likely that the stem cells maintain their characteristic state by virtue of their position in the basal layer where they may be under the influence of a deeper layer of cells . |
| 3 | They may be above the age of criminal responsibility but children aged between ten and 14 are presumed not to know the difference between right and wrong , therefore incapable of committing an offence . |
| 4 | Important as they may be to the birds and trout , they can be very annoying to humans and , although they may not bite , the sheer numbers of midges and blackflies have been known to send birdwatchers — and particularly photographers — into paroxysms of rage and frustration . |
| 5 | Thus it can be seen that the records of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic flints , few and sparse as they may be to the local researcher , may , together with palaeo-environmental information and some idea of such early hunting , fishing and gathering life-styles , lead to a real appreciation of how the landscape was used by people in these early periods in the area under study . |
| 6 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |
| 7 | These relations may be of the paradigmatic variety ( e.g. oppositeness , synonymy , etc. ) or they may be of the so-called paronymic sort ( that is to say , involving identity of root , but difference of syntactic category , as , for instance , with act : actor , race : racy . |
| 8 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 9 | Manufacturing and service companies in the Midlands believe they may be on the brink of an economic turnaround . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Will he therefore do his best to defuse the present unhappy situation and assure the people of that great continent that , although they may be on the other side of the world , they are close to the hearts of the people of the United Kingdom ? |
| 12 | Initiating pupils into theology is an essential part of RE , so that they may be on the wavelength of the major religions and be able — if they wish — to use their language and outlooks to make sense of their own personal experience . |
| 13 | They may be at the root of colic , which is why lactose intolerance is important here . |
| 14 | They may be in the car park of the supermarket or at a Local Council site . |
| 15 | Often political and economic policies are unclear to educationists , sometimes they may be in the hands of tyrants , not infrequently they conflict , but they can never be ignored . |
| 16 | The craftsmen at Hal Safi are ready and capable of supporting today 's propliners wherever they may be in the next century . |
| 17 | ‘ They may be in the radar demonstration room learning the art of manipulating radar devices which surely must be beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them , or maybe they , too , are learning something of ‘ behaviour at height ’ and the ‘ ways of jetstreams ’ . |
| 18 | True , these sources overlap , different as they may be in the nature of their risk , difficulty , and complexity , and the potential for innovation may well lie in more than one area at a time . |
| 19 | They may be in the heart of France 's wine-growing region collecting the plonk by the caseload to bring back home , but with some serious driving involved , la boozing is out of the question we hear on the grapevine . |
| 20 | 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 . |