Example sentences of "they [modal v] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 2 | … the grains of dust which the Australian detaches from the sacred rock are so many sacred principles which he scatters into space , so that they may go to animate the totemic species and assure its renewal . |
| 3 | If Labour wins , they may go much lower . |
| 4 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 5 | In delirium they may go into a stupor and even unconsciousness with twitchings sometimes , of one side ; head rolling ; pupils maybe contracted or dilated ; eyes red ; face flushed , red . |
| 6 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 7 | ‘ Certain courses are generally attended by staff of specific sections but care is taken that all staff know they may go to any course . |
| 8 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 9 | Anti-entrepreneurial attitudes must be distinguished from anti-industrial ones ; although they may go together , they need not . |
| 10 | If he does not have authority to give the staff financial rewards or the possibility of developing themselves , they may go to their functional managers in order to satisfy their economic and professional ambitions . |
| 11 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 12 | But ranked with others , they may go behind , |
| 13 | They may go through , but I hope that he will make it clear that , in the next Session of Parliament , this legislation will apply , and anybody considering introducing a works Bill will do so through this legislation and not as a private measure . |
| 14 | to understand this so they may go to their immediate selfish interest rather than their long-term interest . |
| 15 | They may go on to use further sources to discover more about a particular topic . |
| 16 | If there 's any left after members and voucher-clutchers have got theirs , and after season ticket holders have claimed an extra ticket for a guest of their choice , they may go on sale next week . |
| 17 | We are estimating as best we can , these figures will change , and indeed they are changing as we try to move towards a more detailed purchasing plan with the health authority , to take in the changes , they may go up , they may go down . |
| 18 | We are estimating as best we can , these figures will change , and indeed they are changing as we try to move towards a more detailed purchasing plan with the health authority , to take in the changes , they may go up , they may go down . |
| 19 | that 's why some come of course to seek their fortune … they may go home with empty pockets but you can bet they 'll be back for another night at the gryehounds … for another night of fun |
| 20 | They ought to go back where they belong . ’ |
| 21 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 22 | You referred to the ex-parliamentary stars , President the budding prima donnas well I should , I would suggest that they ought to go away and look at their roots . |
| 23 | Er after deliberate first we wondered whether they ought to go through onto the racecourse and then we decided no probably the best place for them would be round the back of the main stand . |
| 24 | at two o'clock this afternoon , er , because he was , he thought they ought to go on , totally rebuild of the fire on the |
| 25 | They must go in right away if they are to bloom for Christmas . |
| 26 | If they have never had a number they must go personally with proof of identity . |
| 27 | From the borders of the Land of Promise they must go back almost to where they came from . |
| 28 | They must go through life knowing that a child of theirs is suffering a limited existence and being cared for by someone else . ’ |
| 29 | But before they can be used they must go through a market process through the shops . |
| 30 | At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged . |