Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 2 | In delirium they may go into a stupor and even unconsciousness with twitchings sometimes , of one side ; head rolling ; pupils maybe contracted or dilated ; eyes red ; face flushed , red . |
| 3 | Winnicott observed that such ‘ transitional objects ’ were important , precisely because they may appear to the infant as not fully part of the external world , and therefore not entirely separate from the child 's own body . |
| 4 | Remembering that the elderly often become quite anxious and upset at the prospect of any change or disturbance of their normal routine , however pleasing the end-result promises to be , you will need to take anything they may regard as an ‘ upheaval ’ very slowly . |
| 5 | If someone dies in hospital , they may rest in the hospital mortuary , or the funeral director will arrange for the body to be taken to the chapel of rest . |
| 6 | Technocrats are ‘ statists ’ who consider that state policies are available to manage all social problems , although in selecting solutions they may lean to the right ( favouring market management and abhorring the inefficiencies of state socialism ) or to the left ( deploring the waste of social resources under capitalism ) . |
| 7 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 8 | It is relatively easy to legislate against CFCs — but they may persist in the atmosphere for 100 years , and so will continue to build up ; and it is far harder to suppress N 2 0 production . |
| 9 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 10 | The other approach is to let the TB take its course in the badger population and compensate farmers for losses they may suffer as a result of TB spreading to their cattle from the badgers . |
| 11 | His physical appearance and his rapport with the crowds remind people of his father , Prince Sihanouk , whose reign they may associate with the happier days before the Vietnam war and the Khmers Rouges . |
| 12 | They receive a substantial annual budget from central government coffers , they may borrow from the national loan fund for commercial purposes and they can make use of the proceeds from land sales . |
| 13 | They may lead to the award of a masters ' degree , a postgraduate diploma or certificate , a post-experience diploma or certificate , or a second degree . |
| 14 | Inherited disorders such as cystic fibrosis and functional anomalies such as mental retardation were excluded , but phenylketonuria , galactosaemia , and congenital hypothyroidism were included because they are routinely detected by neonatal screening in Hungary and they may manifest as a congenital abnormality ( for example , microcephaly , cataract , umbilical hernia ) . |
| 15 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 16 | There is a degree of autonomy within each of the four countries , and although they may unite in the same objectives ( such as improvements in educational and professional standards ) , each has to be responsive to the nature and demands of its country of origin . |
| 17 | Whilst cost budgets may be based on internal standards , they may depend on the sales volume of the business activity . |
| 18 | Most of the other simulations of accidental stalling involve almost unrealistic handling of the aircraft , and are therefore not very convincing , although they may result in a rather more violent wing-drop . |
| 19 | They may intervene in the work of some departments but only at the cost of neglecting broad strategy and the work of others . |
| 20 | If your superiors get wind that you are feuding with a fellow employee , they may intervene in the hope of sorting the problem out . |
| 21 | A larger number of bigger girls and women were in waiting at one of the locks , where the passengers are politely informed they may walk for a mile ; they had large pitchers and small jugs , and we are all favoured with pressing invitations to have ‘ sweet milk . ’ |
| 22 | If poor quality replacements have been fitted they may react with the brake fluid . |
| 23 | We also know that they may react in a slightly perverse way to our advertising . |
| 24 | Without shelter or shady places they may cower in the corners . |
| 25 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 26 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
| 27 | They may feel at the time very sincere about their forgiveness but if that is all that happens the old feelings of misunderstanding and bitterness can swiftly recur . |
| 28 | Defendants are entitled to give evidence of their honest state of mind , and to explain why their dominant motive , irrespective of any dislike they may feel for the plaintiff , was to comment on a matter of public interest . |
| 29 | As the formation of these smaller fullerenes seems to require extensive annealing of more disorganized clusters , they may form at a relatively late stage of clustering . |
| 30 | If another competitor catches you up , they may overtake at a safe and suitable place , and you should give way . |