Example sentences of "they [vb mod] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dublin Docks companies operating in the International Financial Services Centre are similar to BCCs , but without the onerous turnover requirements , so they may be suitable for smaller multinationals . |
| 2 | If the baby is severely handicapped , they may be involved in a discussion over whether the child should be allowed to die . |
| 3 | They may be involved in planning , organising foreign trade , predicting the money needed by their economies , but few are involved in developing Marxist — Leninist theory itself . |
| 4 | This indicates that the events are caused by the low-energy particle precipitation and suggests that they may be involved in the production of polar cap density ‘ patches ’ . |
| 5 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 6 | Or , they may be involved in some form of ritual in which the lighted candle has a religious significance . |
| 7 | Building up parental confidence in these techniques can sometimes present a problem as they may be contradictory to the parents ' viewpoint . |
| 8 | It can not be too strongly stressed that the subject of letters is all-important and that , even though they may be complete with the signature , they are of little virtue or worth unless they say something of at least modest significance . |
| 9 | Around 25 per cent of those gathered will be distracted anyway ; they may be upset by their home situation ; concerned by some event which occurred on their way in ; confused by the absence of someone they were expecting to see . |
| 10 | The source of these birds is not known , but they may be present from late August until April . |
| 11 | Quite often , olivine and pyroxene begin to crystallize out early on , so they may be present in the final rock as quite large crystals , up to a centimetre across , many times larger than the crystals surrounding them , and easily visible with the naked eye . |
| 12 | They may be present in the cuticle , epidermis or subepidermal tissues ( usually fat body or blood ) . |
| 13 | In addition , they may be anxious about dealing with a solicitor for the first time . |
| 14 | This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX . |
| 15 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |
| 16 | The people in the company who will have to run the system , the manager or director in whose department the system will be installed ought to be involved in the selection process , but such people are unlikely to have much knowledge of computers and computer software although they may be familiar with word processing and spreadsheet systems running on microcomputers . |
| 17 | In fact in many ways they may be preferable to funds raised in the ‘ ordinary ’ way at branch retail level . |
| 18 | They may be irritable on waking too . |
| 19 | But they may be unaware of the ravages of the Yugoslav Federal Army against our country 's natural heritage . |
| 20 | There is little doubt that the popular newspapers and the police embrace the copycat phenomenon with enthusiasm , so they may be misleading on many occasions with the supposed examples they sometimes put on display . |
| 21 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 22 | Individuals may perform either role by itself ; or they might be active in both roles , and successfully at that ; or they may be strong in one but not in the other . |
| 23 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 24 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 25 | Alternatively they may be due to radiations coming from the plant , possibly reflectance on top of the simple ON/OFF pixel count due to area . |
| 26 | Recrystallized organic-rich fossils , such as renalcid microorganisms in reefs , may show up very well under UV , whereas they may be invisible in transmitted light and CL . |
| 27 | I think they may be nervous of us . |
| 28 | They may be convinced of something for which there is no obvious justification — perhaps that they are being pursued by secret agents ( delusions ) . |
| 29 | Although such studies give a great deal of information about the memory for individual arousing slides , they may be unrepresentative of normal situations . |
| 30 | The departmental systems maybe mission critical in other words they may be important to them you know they may be necessary to doing business to getting out orders or what have you . |