Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Where the cliffs are high they may be undercut by the sea with the result that most of the material may be removed by the subsequent collapse of the upper undermined section . |
| 32 | At the meeting , the most important point to convey is that your alternative proposals need not be to their detriment , either in financial terms or in the provision of any accommodation they may be hoping for in a new development on the site . |
| 33 | But they may be hoping in vain . |
| 34 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 35 | You 'll find them loose in bins so you can fill a bag yourself or they may be pre-packed with a colourful label to show you what you 're buying . |
| 36 | Like the other secondary rules these are on a different level from the primary rules : though they may be reinforced by further rules imposing duties on judges to adjudicate , they do not impose duties but confer judicial powers and a special status on judicial declarations about the breach of obligations . |
| 37 | They may be adopted with confidence by retailers of any size , private training providers including government contractors and colleges of further education . |
| 38 | They may be heated by steam coil , electric immersion heater or gas and provide a hot rinse and disinfection capability . |
| 39 | They may be seen as steps in the transition from the Family Practitioner Services being purely ‘ administered ’ services to being an actively managed service . |
| 40 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 41 | They may be seen as evidence of the insidious creep of sport climbing ethics into the mountains , but used sparingly they eliminate an unwanted and unnecessary risk and cause less visual intrusion . |
| 42 | They may be seen as clauses of allographs , as phonemes can be seen as classes of allophones . |
| 43 | In addition , dense infiltration of the lung by eosinophils occurs , and where these accumulate in the small bronchi in large numbers , they may be seen as greenish plugs at necropsy . |
| 44 | They may be seen through 13 March and there is a catalogue with colour reproductions and an essay by Maurice Poirier . |
| 45 | They may be summarised as a revolt against the normal . |
| 46 | Where the terms are applied to a large scale transaction , or at the commencement of a trading relationship , they may be scrutinised by the business 's trading partner , and there may even be some degree of negotiation . |
| 47 | They may be completed by individuals or small groups . |
| 48 | If the rails are not bent they may be covered with drifting sand so that the train can only creep along , making it a perfect target for anti-government tribes who like to vent their political frustrations on the train . |
| 49 | In one sense they may be regarded as the successors to , sometimes the heirs of , the small- nationality movements directed against the Habsburg , Tsarist and Ottoman empires , that is to say against what were considered historically obsolete modes of political organisation , in the name of a model of political modernity , the nation-state . |
| 50 | Although they may be regarded as suitable accommodation by some people , especially retired couples able to afford good-quality mobile homes , relatively poor facilities and frequently isolated locations make them less than ideal for the majority of inhabitants . |
| 51 | In our society the judges have in some aspects of their work a discretionary power to do justice so wide that they may be regarded as law-makers . |
| 52 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 53 | They are organisations ( they may be run from an office or from someone 's home ) that seek to match up like-minded individuals . |
| 54 | Exceptionally the statutes creating these bodies may omit to provide for an appeal in which case the decisions of the tribunals in question may be the subject of review by the High Court , and if the decisions reveal an error of law they may be quashed by what is known as an order of certiorari . |
| 55 | Community regulations and certain provisions of the founding treaties ( such as Article 30 of the EEC Treaty on free movement of goods and Article 85 of the same treaty on competition ) have direct effect , which means that they may be relied on directly by any citizen without the need for any intervening national measures to ‘ receive ’ them and indeed without any possibility for national measures to exclude or modify them . |
| 56 | Similarly , for juvenile offenders , the ‘ care order ’ under which they may be detained in an institution is for an unspecified period ; again , release is determined by rehabilitative , treatment criteria . |
| 57 | Some cases are susceptible to medical treatment , some require intensive nursing care , most respond to education and training and a small minority may be so severely impaired that they may be detained in hospital or placed under guardianship . |
| 58 | It is initially intended to launch these schemes in Germany and Switzerland but they may be extended to other countries later . |
| 59 | No other warranties or conditions to such effect may be implied except insofar as they may be annexed to the contract by custom or trade usage ( s14(4) of SGA 1979 , ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) . |
| 60 | When there is information to give about a diagnosis of terminal disease , for example , it is always the statutorily determined next of kin who are given the information , regardless of how suitable they may be to cope with such information emotionally , and regardless of how involved in the actual care of Mr Patient they are . |