Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time . |
| 2 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 3 | but for some reason some of them may well lie within the |
| 4 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 5 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 6 | The status of the pupils in the activity can be raised and the value of their contributions recognised by suggesting that some of them may already possess considerable information and experience ( pp. 36–38 ) . |
| 7 | There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us . |
| 8 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 9 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 10 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 11 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 12 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 13 | Female cats are such powerful breeding machines that some of them may even come into heat while they are pregnant . |
| 14 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 15 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 16 | Even if the technological aspects are fully understood , the application of the law to them may still perplex . |
| 17 | Doctors are themselves not immune from the disease of alcoholism and some of them may therefore give inappropriate reassurance to patients . |
| 18 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 19 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 20 | At the front of Laura 's mind constantly was the realization that these shops bore her name and everything in them must therefore reflect what she stood for . |
| 21 | But all of them must now align against the beast … |
| 22 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 23 | Rhee hoped the United States and Britain would recognise his provisional government ; a British Foreign Office minute from March 1945 reads , ‘ These people can not in any true sense be said to represent Korea and Anglo-US recognition of them might well lead to those [ problems ] we have experienced over the ‘ London Poles ’ . |
| 24 | It is from the people who gather together to discuss these targets that ideas to meet them might well emerge . |
| 25 | Better tuning of capitation and item of service payment to reflect the work involved in earning them might also improve the performance of primary care . |
| 26 | Enough of them might also have left the county to reduce the population to a point which , by the 1520s , created a need for Breton workmen . |
| 27 | Thus , it advocated that the Colleges of Advanced Technology should become technological universities awarding their own degrees , the National Council for Technological Awards should be replaced by the Council for National Academic Awards , the Regional Colleges of Technology should develop a wide range of advanced full-time courses , and that some of them might eventually form the nucleus of other universities or become universities in their own right . |
| 28 | there is no better way , but er the problem with that is that , you know okay , you might get , you might get some peasants who say well we 're really grateful , we 'll go off and fight but some of them might just say no look , we 've got some land I 'm not gon na leave it , |
| 29 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
| 30 | One of them might never walk at all . |