Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may prefer to take action against their minority who refuse to share rather than continuing to fight such innocuous users of the countryside . |
| 2 | Occasionally , however , they may want to pass information about you on to other companies so they too can offer you things you might be interested in . |
| 3 | Second , the instruments used for white middle-class parents may not be equally appropriate for black parents because they may fail to take account of different subjective experiences and racial and ethnic backgrounds . |
| 4 | On the contrary , they may like to see farm workers around the village to mark it as being ‘ truly rural ’ . |
| 5 | They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent . |
| 6 | Local authorities are also constrained in the proportion of capital receipts they may use to support capital expenditure . |
| 7 | They may have lost touch with their friends and have to start again to build up a new social circle . |
| 8 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 9 | Sprague de Camp also says that the sharpness of the Tyrannosaurus ’ teeth hints that they may have eaten meat softened by decomposition . |
| 10 | They may have survived County Louth but Malcolm 's driving is an entirely different matter . |
| 11 | They may have obtained support , in manpower , money and material , from all three ; but they themselves were essentially political in orientation . |
| 12 | Furthermore , they may have to accept work further away from home than they are accustomed to travelling , which may in itself present child care problems . |
| 13 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 14 | Alternatively , they may have found objective setting a dull ritual that did n't make any difference to anything . |
| 15 | Foreign investment banks have so far made a big chunk of their profits from earning high interest on the 10 billion won ( $12.6m ) they must deposit to do business . |
| 16 | The majority of women — and , indeed , the majority of men — are feeling that they must start protecting family life . |
| 17 | But , you know , a lot of those repeats get huge audiences , and th they must have repeated Dad 's Army , and 'Ello , 'Ello about fourteen hundred times , but they still get enormous ratings , those programmes . |
| 18 | ‘ It is difficult to make the transition because the normal prerequisite of a finance director is that they must have had board level experience and as a financial controller reporting to a director it 's very difficult to get that . ’ |
| 19 | They must have had transport . |
| 20 | They must have forgotten Hoover . |
| 21 | They must have put money on his reaching 50 . |
| 22 | They must have got news at Forteviot . ’ |
| 23 | If you were to ask twenty men or women in the street what they should do to avoid heart disease the majority would say , ‘ take more exercise and eat margarine instead of butter . ’ |
| 24 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 25 | If you ask me , they should have incorporated Catharism into their own theology , it would have filled in a lot of holes … ’ |
| 26 | They tended to face north and west when they should have faced south and east , because they were there to be looked at , not to be looked from , and the windows of the mansion faced in the contrary direction . |
| 27 | No doubt it will be said that the British public have said chemist when they should have said pharmacist for so long that it would be impossible to change , but the obvious answer to that is that decimalisation presented little problem . |
| 28 | But they should have used ethylene glycol and not water since the bumpouses were a very very new phenomenon and the little bumpouses melted and formed an impenetrable crust in that area which , from that time forth , served to remind the silly , pea-brained man species that new thinking is needed for new times . |
| 29 | They should have taken account of all representations and consulted adequately . |
| 30 | Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe . |