Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , alternative technological solutions and the types of communication service they may carry are being identified . |
| 2 | A dangerous species is defined as ‘ a species ( a ) which is not commonly domesticated in the British Islands and ( b ) whose fully grown animals normally have such characteristics that they are likely , unless restrained , to cause severe damage or that any damage they may cause is likely to be severe . ’ |
| 3 | They may write is for his , or Inglish for English , because that 's the way it sounds when people say it . |
| 4 | They may include being a wife to your husband , a mother to your children , or a daughter to your parents . |
| 5 | Students are often left to muddle along ; the help they may need is not forthcoming , even in tutorials . |
| 6 | Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how . |
| 7 | If the IRA is involved , they may have been dumped after the discovery of an IRA bomb factory in Clapham , south London , last December , in which 150lb of Semtex , arms and other equipment were discovered , with a list of 100 potential targets . |
| 8 | If the US team were hoping to hear that martial law may soon be lifted , they may have been forestalled by a tiny but significant demonstration on the streets of Beijing . |
| 9 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 10 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 11 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 12 | Or they may have been hunters after larger prey , in which case when appendages are eventually discovered they may prove to have adaptations for grasping and manipulating larger food . |
| 13 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 14 | They may have been surprised by the contents of her second volume . |
| 15 | They may have been encouraged to do so by General Aslam Beg 's recent public condemnations of the war , couched in accusations of conspiracy by the West to undermine the Muslim world . |
| 16 | Reporters had from 8.30am to 10am to write up the meeting or function they may have been covering the night before , or else they re-wrote stories from the morning edition of the Regina Leader-Post . |
| 17 | The scapula and pelvis were broken , but they may have been broken already in the pellet . |
| 18 | For example , they may have been encouraged to stick their necks out and set an objective and then been clobbered for not achieving it . |
| 19 | On every occasion there was a suicide attempt , we would find out that the other had attempted suicide at the identical time , even though they may have been hundreds of miles apart and not seen each other for months . |
| 20 | They may have been purpose-built for pedestrians , or be ordinary streets where the traffic flow is restricted ( usually to emergency services and possibly delivery vans ) . |
| 21 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 22 | They may have been corrupted by the atrocities committed against their people but , by stooping to the same level of conduct , they were corrupting their own cause . |
| 23 | Perhaps the individuals involved were too obtuse in applying conventional planning models with little regard for local feeling , and they may have been less than adroit in their handling of public opinion . |
| 24 | However , there are different kinds of planners — the Orcadian planners seem to have been unreceptive to public opinion whereas in Shetland they may have been younger and more immature but they listened to complaints . |
| 25 | Although their dress was not equipped to deal with soaking weather and although they may have been expected to turn back at the sight of such greyness , they continued and even displayed some sense of enjoyment at the discomfort each was experiencing . |
| 26 | I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long . |
| 27 | Other dinosaurs , namely the duckbilled hadrosaurs — herbivorous versions of T. Rex — were found with fossilized ribs that frequently revealed healed breaks , hinting that they may have been involved in fights or in ritualized trials of strength in which their massive hind feet were used . |
| 28 | Others thought they may have been blood-cooling devices , similar to the large ears of African elephants . |
| 29 | New boys , however grand they may have been before entering the House , go to the back of the queue . |
| 30 | In reality , they may have been more anxious and worried than they showed . |