Example sentences of "they may [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there may be other symptoms over the years , and if you marry and have children they may inherit in various ways . |
| 2 | Intermittent sub-parallel reflections beneath the total depth of the well may indicate further Lower Permian lavas and conglomerates , or they may originate in Carboniferous strata beneath . |
| 3 | While they are politically neutral they are not anonymous ; they may speak in public at committee and other meetings , and often acquire public prominence within their locality . |
| 4 | They may lean towards simple solid-riffing more than the likes of the Babes or the dark Hole , but here , this alternative heavy steel sound has some ecstatic , if not inventive moments . |
| 5 | Improved economic status now gives more elderly people the option of a fairly comfortable retirement which they may prefer to continued employment in unattractive work . |
| 6 | The problems encountered may be entirely physical in nature , as with many people who are physically handicapped , or they may stem from psycho-sexual dysfunction with no physical concomitant whatever . |
| 7 | There are some encouraging signs that they may benefit from rigorous application of competition policy . |
| 8 | Many patients attribute their symptoms to an antecedent event ( eg , post-partum faecal incontinence associated with a perineal tear ) or they may present with chronic symptoms that have recently progressed ( eg , stress urinary incontinence or chronic constipation ) . |
| 9 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 10 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 11 | Core skills are not intended to be the subject of academic studies , although they may relate to academic subjects such as English , mathematics , computing , science and social studies . |
| 12 | They may start with closed questions about , for example , age or marital status , and move on to more open-ended questions as the interview progresses . |
| 13 | Put more simply , sociologists themselves often disagree in explaining society and social behaviour because they may start with different ‘ background assumptions ’ . |
| 14 | They may fight with other children , be difficult for their parents and teachers to control , or steal . |
| 15 | They may begin as mild irritations arising from the compromise of entering an organization and creating dependence , but they may progress to induce high levels of stress . |
| 16 | Although these two types of margin are associated with distinct types of landscape , they may occur in close proximity owing to the tendency of transform faults to contain offset segments or to have a sinuous form rather than being purely straight ( Fig. 3.26 ) . |
| 17 | Much debate has centred round the relative significance of these interacting factors , and how they may apply to related baboons such as drills which range on the floors of rain forests . |
| 18 | If the ‘ night forces ’ are given no safe outlet , no proper channelling , they may erupt with disastrous effect . |
| 19 | Apart from the founding treaties and Community legislation , they may include in particular the multi-lateral conventions concluded between Member States under the auspices of the Community , pursuant to Article 220 of the EEC Treaty , such as the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters of 1968 . |
| 20 | Local historians should be aware that the high number of deaths that they may find during certain years in their own register could fit the experience of the nation at large . |
| 21 | Top earners in Latin America may be owners or managers , they may work in foreign or local firms and they may work in state or private enterprises . |
| 22 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 23 | It should agree with the management team what information about the company they may disclose to potential backers ; and about their future conduct and voting at board meetings . |
| 24 | A major issue is how to balance the rights and needs of the dementia sufferer with the effect which they may have on other tenants . |
| 25 | Of course , it is necessary to assume that the questions , however they are phrased , are understood in the same way by all respondents whatever differences they may have in other respects , such as level of education or gender . |
| 26 | They may act as legitimate grammatical subjects , but they are not necessarily also the " logical " subjects of the propositions concerned , in the sense of representing the genuine basis of predication in the given instance . |
| 27 | Grazing by molluscs figured so strongly among the hazards to a clover leaf that it seems reasonable to expect that , in those years when slugs or snails were abundant , they may act as important selective forces within clover populations . |
| 28 | They may act as presidential emissaries to the largely autonomous empires of the bureaucracy and try to instil some loyalty to the programme of the President in their department . |
| 29 | It is not yet known how the active components of ginseng , compounds called triterpenoidal saponins , achieve these effects , although by analogy with the related steroidal saponins , such as digitalis , they may act on specific cell membranes . |
| 30 | They may act via central pathways that influence the perception of pain . |