Example sentences of "they [modal v] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasional reports suggest that a single ailing individual can precipitate a mass stranding : whales are often reluctant to leave their comrades particularly if the sick animal is the leader of the group , and they may strand themselves rather than depart . |
| 2 | If they are arthritic , their sight is poor , or they are subject to dizzy spells they may trip over the flex . |
| 3 | They may co-habit in the landscape but their ecological niches make very different physical demands and their shapes have evolved accordingly : they are the barn owl , the herring gull and the mallard duck . |
| 4 | They , they may sort of be very submissive , B types , and therefore they can be stressed in a different way . |
| 5 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 6 | They may stage something to coincide with the trial of last October 's terrorists . |
| 7 | A mother otter will bring a half-dead fish and give it to her young to play with in a pool so that they may practice the dives and swoops that are needed to be a successful underwater hunter . |
| 8 | Walsh , lecturing the others on how they must junk ‘ traditional left-wing fund-raising methods ’ , had the most important job of the moment as fund-raising co-ordinator . |
| 9 | They must carbon-date it and put it under the microscope , and we must examine Aziz carefully and get him to say where he found it . |
| 10 | ‘ They must hiv been . |
| 11 | To resolve the dilemma they must piece together the sort of documentary and pictorial evidence that is usually plentifully available for the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 13 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 14 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 15 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 16 | All the land to build those homes on , they was given the land for that re recreation ground , and I believe they should hand that back to the parish and the people . |
| 17 | We must sit back and say how awful everything is , blame the Government and say that they should hand out more money to the regions to assist them . |
| 18 | It was an opportunity , which they should value , and should certainly help them in their career choices . ’ |
| 19 | In years to come now they 'll life it out and say oh look at it . |
| 20 | Silicon Graphics Inc 's new high-end multi-processing servers and workstations based upon its Mips Technologies Inc subsidiary 's R4400 RISC ( UX Nos 407 , 409 ) , are expected on January 26th : Electronic News hears they 'll debut as the Axys line . |
| 21 | They 'll jet with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on their brand new flight from Heathrow to San Francisco , via Amsterdam , and stay for six nights at the Tuscan Inn , on the world-famous Fisherman 's Wharf , where they 'll enjoy FREE use of a Tropical USA Rent-A-Car . |
| 22 | see a vehicle that you you recognize is not off the patch , they 'll they 'll radio it through to the base , to our base . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'll radio all the police cars , ’ said Adam . |
| 24 | lots of mums will ask about their baby 's feet , do you think there 's anything wrong with this , and they 'll sort of be holding their feet sort of wiggling them around , doing this , that and the other |
| 25 | And you get the feeling that they 'll sort of go back to school and college or wherever |
| 26 | they 'll sort of give in to other temptations . |
| 27 | yeah so I said oh I see , so that was that , so I think they 've got a , a meeting in a couple of weeks and they 'll sort of tell her discreetly that she has to carry on and do it what she 's been the |
| 28 | Near Arken where they cross the border that 's about two hundred miles and then , you know , by the time they 've gone through er er , they 'll sort of be well down into erm sort of Stuttgart way I think that sort of area probably . |
| 29 | and and presumably even if they 're not floppy as a result of their illness they 'll they 'll sort of go floppy after er a period of institutionalisation yeah mhm yeah yeah mhm so er . |
| 30 | Yeah , well we will do once we 'll get them to the height we want we 'll start trimming them and they 'll bush out a bit more , that 's not bad they 're about four , four or five foot now are n't they ? |