Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like dacite domes , rhyolite domes often form within the crater of a preexisting volcano , but they may equally well pop up at the surface as isolated extrusions , not visibly related to any volcano . |
| 2 | Next , because while they apply primarily to those who work on their own account , they may equally be used by employees who work for companies which do not have a pension scheme or which have a scheme for which they , as individuals , are not eligible . |
| 3 | They may equally , as I did , hold a second current account with a competitor . |
| 4 | The Member States may indeed decide that the employee 's contract shall simply continue with the transferor , but they may equally decide that the employee 's refusal to transfer shall be regarded as a termination of the contract by the employer or , even , that the refusal to transfer is to be treated as a determination of the contract of by the employee ( point 36 ) . |
| 5 | The media ( at least in those countries where media , and particularly television , play a major role ) are an important factor in upholding the patriarchal myth , even though they may subtly shift their ground here and there . |
| 6 | My guess is that the German authority is waiting to be forced by outside opinion to reimpose some form of genuine , serious ban ; but that it will do so only at a price — that of an assurance from other major national authorities that they will actively target specific drug-suspects under their own jurisdiction , proceeding upon information they may already possess but have chosen not to ‘ activate ’ . |
| 7 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 8 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 9 | And as for yourself , you too should try talking to a friend or relative whom you trust — the chances are that they may already have realised that things are going badly . |
| 10 | Due to the conserved structure and the occurrence of identical insertion sites of mitochondrial introns , it has been speculated that they may already have existed in the progenitor of fungal mitochondria ( 7 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The police are going to find Rick without any help from me — they may already have found him — and they 're going to want to talk to you as well . |
| 12 | You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this . |
| 13 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 14 | They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter . |
| 15 | They may yet get their wish when Premier League II comes along . |
| 16 | They may yet vindicate his vision of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 17 | They may yet have to write the debt off . |
| 18 | Witnesses or victims of serious crime are sometimes hypnotised during police investigations to help them to remember , and they may later testify in court . |
| 19 | The procuticle is usually pierced by very numerous pore-canals which run perpendicularly to its surface and are initially occupied by cytoplasmic filaments from the epidermis , though they may later become filled with cuticular material . |
| 20 | If you show it to other people it could form part of their records which they may later be obliged to disclose . |
| 21 | To expand on that ; many girls would retain the values of civilisation and would want democracy and order and all that , as Ralph did , and eventually I am sure that a girl or girls would break away , causing a rift in the group , I think that the causes of the rift would be more trivial and the arguments more verbal and less brutally physical than the boys , but girls are capable of a great deal of spite and bitter unforgiveness and if more than one leader-figure emerges , they may later argue . |
| 22 | The corporations are also the development-control authority for the designated area , so they may thus determine planning applications made to them or deem themselves planning permission by resolution . |
| 23 | Yet so many hobbyists seem oblivious of the fact that different fish come from different types of water , and that they may thus not be compatible with each other or with the local tap water . |
| 24 | They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations . |
| 25 | They may thus find ways to get round the controls . |
| 26 | They may soon be extinct . |
| 27 | They may soon be joined by elected sympathisers . |
| 28 | As llamas are such graceful beasts ( in all but manners ) I was delighted to read that they may soon widely adorn the British landscape ( ‘ Europe 's farmers plough a new furrow ’ , 8 December 1990 ) . |
| 29 | They may soon reassess the outcome of eastern Germany 's strike and decide the damage to business and the economy is less grave . |
| 30 | Surely , investors will be less willing to buy and sell shares if they think that they may soon become the ‘ victims ’ of insider dealing . |