Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Your employer has no legal or even moral obligation to house you , although they may advise you on what is available locally in the public and private sector . |
| 32 | Does he further agree that the best security for the people of Northern Ireland is in talks and an agreement between political leaders and parties within Northern Ireland so that they may govern their own Province in the interests of all its people ? |
| 33 | For the ‘ motions of the mind ’ , our desires and aversions , and what they may lead us to do , are not theoretical constructs known only by ‘ ratiocination ’ , and introduced as an intermediary stage in the reduction of political to natural philosophy . |
| 34 | The range of political institutions and objectives is well discussed , although one could have wished for more emphasis to be placed on European Community matters and where they may lead us . |
| 35 | At least they may tell me so . |
| 36 | ‘ When you expect a deal to happen they may tell you there has been a last minute problem and the people either providing the funds or the guarantee either require a non-performance bond to be put up or require some kind of payment up front to prove you really mean business . |
| 37 | But I 'm afraid they may accuse me of lying . ’ |
| 38 | Where firms use ‘ workshop ’ affiliates in developing countries , they may lower their total costs below those of stay-at-home rivals . |
| 39 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 40 | By practice banks withdraw their callable funds with the discount house by 12 noon , but they may offer their surpluses to them up until the close of business in the afternoon . |
| 41 | They may offer you advice . |
| 42 | They may offer you money . |
| 43 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 44 | He warned : ‘ Once somebody gets hooked on this sort of thing they may step it up . |
| 45 | However , they do not give doctors legal justification for a particular course of action but they may give them greater moral authority ’ . |
| 46 | To them you are just a very large creature who for some unknown reason feeds them , and for that , and that alone , they may give you a grudging sort of respect , if owls have any idea what respect is . |
| 47 | They may give you the creeps , but not Ray Gabriel . |
| 48 | They may redouble their efforts to provoke others to contain benignly what is bubbling up inside them or , if that fails , to secure punishment for being so bad . |
| 49 | They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse . |
| 50 | Clearly corporations exercise substantial discretionary controls over the timing and fullness of their responses to consumer demands , including the possibility that for a decade or more they may ignore them ’ . |
| 51 | They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags ! |
| 52 | Alternatively they may devise their own format for indicating to students and to moderators the way in which the student has achieved marks for each individual assignment . |
| 53 | if solvent misusers use large plastic bags , they may suffocate themselves |
| 54 | They may watch it knowingly as a piece of kitsch , but the point is that they are watching it . |
| 55 | They may do it with the help of the symbols of the church , or the language of the Bible in the orthodox way . |
| 56 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 57 | In some ways , they may manage it . |
| 58 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 59 | With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes . |
| 60 | Alternatively , as adults they may make their own decision to live an ordinary life and not pursue brilliance . |