Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better tuning of capitation and item of service payment to reflect the work involved in earning them might also improve the performance of primary care . |
| 2 | Thus , it advocated that the Colleges of Advanced Technology should become technological universities awarding their own degrees , the National Council for Technological Awards should be replaced by the Council for National Academic Awards , the Regional Colleges of Technology should develop a wide range of advanced full-time courses , and that some of them might eventually form the nucleus of other universities or become universities in their own right . |
| 3 | The others — none of them could even ride a donkey , only Nutty … but now they sit there , knees in , heels down , on the bit — ’ |
| 4 | Despite the bitter weather they strolled slowly along the Riva degli Schiavoni as though neither of them could quite bear the thought of the evening 's ending . |
| 5 | Of course , it would be self-defeating if all tadpoles were to become cannibals , since none of them would then eat the plant material on which the chain depends . |
| 6 | German agents would escort his baggage through all security checks , and one of them would personally place the baggage on the plane . ’ |
| 7 | They may soon reassess the outcome of eastern Germany 's strike and decide the damage to business and the economy is less grave . |
| 8 | Thanks to Saudi Arabia they may soon have a reactor too . |
| 9 | But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period . |
| 10 | They may even ignore the shaping because they intend to cut and sew . |
| 11 | Indeed , they may even increase the diffusion of technological information within the co-operating group . |
| 12 | In fact they may even have a date for you here . |
| 13 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 14 | They may well feel the case against your brother is substantially weakened by what 's come to light . |
| 15 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 16 | If accepting shareholders feel that the offeror has behaved badly , they may well accept a cash offer but feel reluctant to invest on a long-term basis in the offeror . |
| 17 | School monitors are distinguished in many ways , the most obvious being the vermilion gown ; they may also grow a moustache . |
| 18 | Believe , consider , judge , think , declare , imagine , all may precede states of affairs set out in the form of an explicit clause ; they may also precede a structure consisting of noun phrase + adjective , where the adjective is a clausal one . |
| 19 | Granted that the parallel markets may reduce the ability of short-term interest rate changes to influence monetary growth , by changing the relationship between money and spending ( i.e. velocity ) , they may also alter the significance of any monetary growth which does occur . |
| 20 | They may also trap the dew in hairs . |
| 21 | Such displays of humility are not only reminiscent of those of Robert the Pious in France , they may also reflect the teaching of Cnut 's own churchmen . |
| 22 | They may also smear a market scent on a flower which acts as a beacon to other bees . |
| 23 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |
| 24 | Unfortunately they may also prove a hindrance if BSL is presented only as manual English , through the tutor 's adherence to English or through the other necessity of providing English syntax for deaf people one is in contact with , since ‘ it will help their English ’ . |
| 25 | They may also receive a disturbance/ settling-in allowance and a terminal gratuity . |
| 26 | They may also reduce the demand and need for night calls from general practitioners and , taking into account the age and frailty of residents , the pressures on the district nursing service . |
| 27 | They may also incorporate a transposition device . |
| 28 | A note of warning is necessary here , as the Revenue can sometimes seek to deny the £30,000 exemption under s188 where a departing executive is also a vendor shareholder , on the basis that the sum paid as compensation for loss of office is in reality attributable to the sale of his shares , and they may also challenge the deductibility by Target of such payments , especially if these are effectively funded by a reduced acquisition price for Target . |
| 29 | They may also develop a pride in exhibiting their genitals , the penis in the case of boys , and the anus in the case of girls . |
| 30 | But if they wish to exploit s381 Taxes Act 1988 ( " TA 1988 " ) , which enables losses of a trade sustained in the first three or four years to be carried back to entitle individuals to repayments of income tax paid in preceding years , they may instead form a partnership to acquire the assets and business . |