Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symbols X , Y , … on the right may be symbols which occur in the text ( terminal symbols ) ; or they may be other symbols which are invented for use just within the grammar ( variables ) . |
| 2 | They may be such fractions and units but they are much more besides . |
| 3 | They may be irritable children who are generally difficult to care for as well as to feed ( Powell and Low 1983 ) . |
| 4 | They may be long chains of clauses linked by coordination or simply by being adjoined . |
| 5 | They may be former bankers or miners , students , nurses or printers but there is nothing in their previous experience that is much help in running your own show . |
| 6 | Beds are not always interior sprung divans , they may be built-in platform beds or a spring mattress on a wire mesh base . |
| 7 | They may be front wheel drive , they may be rear wheel drive . |
| 8 | They may be front wheel drive , they may be rear wheel drive . |
| 9 | However , the foundation of a new settlement/cemetery may be the result of shifting patterns brought about by such things as soil exhaustion and plague , or they may be new settlements caused by a growth of population . |
| 10 | They may be proteolytic degradation products of ATF1 or CREB or may represent novel bZIP proteins . |
| 11 | At the same time , they can conflict with the needs of the local community ; although houses , factories , swimming pools and supermarkets may appear ugly or aberrant land-uses to the outsider , to the local community they may be essential ingredients in improving the quality of life . |
| 12 | Everyone stands for the general salute — they may be civilian guests , but they have studied the programme avidly and have learnt what to do . |
| 13 | Intermediate targets may be genuine targets which can be aimed for in their own right or they may be spurious targets if they are just subdivisions of the journey to the main target . |
| 14 | ‘ They may be nice kids , ’ said Cowley sharply , ‘ but that 's a family with a pedigree of villainy on both sides . |
| 15 | Japanese drift-nets in the 1970s were about 15 km ( 10 miles ) in length , but now they may be four times that length . |
| 16 | ‘ They may be good trackers , ’ Allen said , ‘ but they 'll have to leave their horses again and they wo n't do that . ’ |
| 17 | They may be good business for surveyors , but they are a waste of money for those buyers who are unsuccessful or who have to pull out for one reason or another . |
| 18 | Furthermore they may be different ones from other bilateral or multilateral agencies , making a coordinated national conservation programme rather difficult . |
| 19 | Acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion are associated — they may be different aspects of the same condition . |
| 20 | The courts have repeatedly insisted that " irrationality , stupidity or obstinacy do not constitute malice though in an extreme case they may be some evidence of it . " |
| 21 | Just as it seemed that they may be some sort of communication , the wind grew stronger and all went awry , the sky momentarily clearing , the celestial blue briefly highlighting the monochrome grey . |
| 22 | Besides they may be some value or of interest to a museum , you never know . ’ |
| 23 | It does n't matter that they may be 700 miles away at the other end of a data link . |
| 24 | They may , for instance , be capable of rising magnificently to the occasion when a neighbour 's sick , deprived , or even delinquent child needs help , or they may be wonderful wives , husbands or parents and do much useful voluntary work in the community , and yet lack the particular type of emotional muscle required to support old people . |
| 25 | While the climatic conditions in any given market can readily be found from published data , the temperature and humidity conditions to which a product may be subjected during shipment to that market are largely unknown ; they may be very sever and potentially damaging . |
| 26 | Or they may be fine metal wires intended simply to record the electrical activity occurring in the cells in their vicinity . |
| 27 | Such electrodes can be of several types ; they may be fine glass tubes filled with solutions of drugs or salts to be pumped out close to specific cells , or they may be ‘ stimulating electrodes ’ designed to deliver trains of electric pulses — of the sort described in relation to LTP . |
| 28 | Er , and they may be little things , but if you get them wrong , if you firmly recognise the power structure with people working with you , go on , who 's your |
| 29 | So because many elderly people ca n't see or hear very well , they may be missing information which the rest of us see and take in without even thinking about it . |
| 30 | Or they may be national anthems , flags and romantic notions , like the English thatched cottage under a spreading chestnut tree . |