Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may land up building the centre outside Europe — in Silicon Valley or Tokyo . |
| 2 | In fact , they may split up , probably owing the agent money . |
| 3 | They may go through , but I hope that he will make it clear that , in the next Session of Parliament , this legislation will apply , and anybody considering introducing a works Bill will do so through this legislation and not as a private measure . |
| 4 | We are estimating as best we can , these figures will change , and indeed they are changing as we try to move towards a more detailed purchasing plan with the health authority , to take in the changes , they may go up , they may go down . |
| 5 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 6 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 7 | They may go on to use further sources to discover more about a particular topic . |
| 8 | If Labour wins , they may go much lower . |
| 9 | But ranked with others , they may go behind , |
| 10 | that 's why some come of course to seek their fortune … they may go home with empty pockets but you can bet they 'll be back for another night at the gryehounds … for another night of fun |
| 11 | Anti-entrepreneurial attitudes must be distinguished from anti-industrial ones ; although they may go together , they need not . |
| 12 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 13 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 14 | We are estimating as best we can , these figures will change , and indeed they are changing as we try to move towards a more detailed purchasing plan with the health authority , to take in the changes , they may go up , they may go down . |
| 15 | ‘ I can sketch 100 different hats on the spot and they may choose just 10 . |
| 16 | The beneficiaries may be willing to sell the shares to the surviving directors — but they may choose not to do so . |
| 17 | In S3 and S4 , all pupils will continue with at least one of the languages they have been learning ( they may choose either ) . |
| 18 | They may sit around watching their child play but only say something when the child starts to misbehave ; injunctions not to do something or to be careful or not to make so much noise focus on control issues only . |
| 19 | They may sit down at a table to chat to a friend . |
| 20 | They may build up to several hundred after arrival in September/October . |
| 21 | In many respects they may appear somewhat crude and certainly there is much room for improvement , particularly in the areas of whole embryo culture and precise manipulations of the embryo , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 22 | The constituent units may be of quite different length and they may appear in quite a different order and quite different emphases may be given to particular features of the story , but the corpus as a whole will contain the same set of elements . |
| 23 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 24 | Their specialized working is recognized as creating staff development problems and it is agreed that they may devote up to fifteen per cent of their time to work with other client groups ; in addition they take part in a duty rota , and thus handle the full range of initial enquiries . |
| 25 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 26 | Without a text to assist them they may prevaricate too long before facing the brutal truth . |
| 27 | Very little support comes from corporate business , but many companies have an associated charitable trust , and in this sense they may contribute substantially |
| 28 | They may contribute as much as 70% of biomass and productivity locally ( El-Sayed and Taguchi , 1981 ; Yamaguchi and Shibata 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Atmospheric concentrations of CFCs are about one-millionth of carbon dioxide levels but their role in the greenhouse effect has increased dramatically in recent decades and they may contribute as much as 30 per cent of the greenhouse effect by the year 2015 . |
| 30 | As a rule the victim is an insect , but certain large centipedes — and they may measure up to 30 cm ( 12 in ) long — have been seen to capture toads and mice . |