Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else . |
| 2 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 3 | They may even claim some capabilities in assisting the promotion and marketing of food . |
| 4 | Perceptions of the quality of their own early work tend to decline as they attain seniority and experience , and they may well attach less significance to the value of other theses to their own work . |
| 5 | Do n't throw any two products into a bucket and mix them ; they may well destroy each other . |
| 6 | They may also make such shareholders " insiders " . |
| 7 | They may also prevent some enzymes from working properly see p 233 ) . |
| 8 | They may also receive some comments post-publication . |
| 9 | They may also follow some mortification or hurt feelings . |
| 10 | While history teachers would wish to eschew the more brash sales methods they may nevertheless welcome some guidance on appropriate methods and strategies for promoting their subject . |
| 11 | The Regulations for manual records make the position much easier to administer for the school though they may perhaps cause more family friction . |
| 12 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |
| 13 | Equally , many people sell their house and move somewhere smaller without taking account of the fact that when they are spending more time at home they may actually want more space , rather than less . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , businessmen are generally optimistic and see the increase in demand as a signal for further increases , they may actually buy more machines than predicted by the accelerator theory . |
| 15 | They may then have more flexibility as to who is allowed to be the greedy one . |
| 16 | ‘ They may still have that radio and I can handle one of those things . |
| 17 | ( 1986 ) sustained a more basic view , that physical space is a constraining factor in conurbations ; if firms have limited land for horizontal extensions , then , as more machinery brings a steady expansion of space needed per employee , they must either employ fewer workers , or move out . |
| 18 | If someone has , then they must also have some interest in our interest . |
| 19 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 20 | And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks , construing as scruple what in fact is timidity . |
| 21 | They must then communicate these targets to other people in the organisation . |
| 22 | Tracy seemed happy with the idea that , they should just finish each leg with the boat undamaged and the crew in one piece . |
| 23 | They should then treat each word as if it were a demonstrative like this or that . |
| 24 | what they and they if it 's a good course they should actually have some sort of estimate of this |
| 25 | The first point in my manifesto for those with small gardens is is that when they go on a spree to a garden centre , they should quickly nip any delusions of grandeur in the bud . |
| 26 | They 'll probably send some bloke over to do you over . |
| 27 | They , they 're just not getting back right now , I do n't know if it 's just to be sensitive to her or whether it 's just because , you know , they 're gon na see each o I mean they live on the same road , they 'll probably see each other this weekend . |
| 28 | Music will be stored in such small compartments that people wo n't even have record collections that people wo n't even have record collections any more , they 'll just have this sort of cartridge that plays things . ’ |
| 29 | If they 're all friends with each other they 'll all bring each other wo n't they ? |
| 30 | But no , and I think one could assume , and indeed expect , that they 'll now stay that way . |