Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Syllabuses and those who frame them may talk of ‘ all round education ’ but schools are in no doubt about their curriculum priorities . |
| 32 | High welfare benefits may attract electoral support from the recipients , but the high taxes to pay for them may lead to electoral unpopularity with the wider population ; balancing the two is a difficult political act . |
| 33 | Er and one of them may decide that he was going to another job anyway , you know , and he would leave and somebody else would be brought in and what have you . |
| 34 | Handling and using them may give a sense of the past . |
| 35 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray . |
| 37 | Together or separately , the two of them may hold the key to power after the election . |
| 38 | Failure to observe them may result in the withdrawal of occupational sick pay and/or statutory sick pay . |
| 39 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 40 | Some of them may accept equity as part of the necessary restructuring of GPA 's debts . |
| 41 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 42 | Another group went to talk to the ‘ Educated Youth ’ ( i.e. young people who after leaving school in the city go to work in the commune and learn from the peasants ) — after 2 or more years in the country , a few of them may get the chance for further training or education before they are assigned to their jobs ( there is no such thing as applying for a job here ) . |
| 43 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
| 44 | Two of them may fall to Labor . |
| 45 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 46 | Different people will notice different things and some of them may surprise you . |
| 47 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 48 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 49 | Topsel warns that playing with them may destroy the lungs and corrupt the air : ‘ There was a certain company of Monks much given to nourish and play with Cats , whereby they were so infected , that within a short space none of them were able to say , read , pray , or sing , in all the Monastery . |
| 50 | The changes have been more fundamental and some of them may have affected us in ways that we do not immediately recognise . |
| 51 | Some of them may have been the fathers of the running children . |
| 52 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 53 | If the floor plates have ever been removed then the sealer around them may have been damaged and need replacing . |
| 54 | The windows are interesting , with their association with the wool trade , though there is some speculation that some of them may have been brought from another house . |
| 55 | It is probable that they either crashed or were shot down , although Stirling states that there was evidence that at least some of them may have reached their target . |
| 56 | The programmers who designed them may have been any of these things , but that is irrelevant . |
| 57 | Some of those qualities appear to have been inherited by Frederick 's youngest son Herbert and , as already mentioned , some of them may have been present in Frederick 's uncle William . |
| 58 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |
| 59 | We are , though , left with the question of exactly which orchestra we have had the pleasure of listening to : while the back cover of the jewel case states that both works have been played by the Canadians under Barshai , the inner notes suggest ( unbelievably ) that one of them may have been performed by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta under Norman Del Mar ! |
| 60 | Other long-tail types impair flight and show greater sexual dimorphism , but variation in their initial evolutionary cost suggests differences in how female preferences for them may have evolved . |