Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 2 | The sums that will pass through them ought surely to enhance their prestige , and at a symbolic time . |
| 3 | Consequently , to maintain a constant level of satisfaction — or , what is the same thing , of dissatisfaction — with the health services , expenditure upon them ought relatively to increase somewhat in real terms . |
| 4 | but for some reason some of them may well lie within the |
| 5 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 6 | Some of them may well have been to boys ' boarding schools and put up with this sort of behaviour |
| 7 | The status of the pupils in the activity can be raised and the value of their contributions recognised by suggesting that some of them may already possess considerable information and experience ( pp. 36–38 ) . |
| 8 | There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us . |
| 9 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 10 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 11 | Some of them may also have a anti-radiation coating , or an anti-static lead . |
| 12 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 13 | Now say that the applications are completely processor-independent too — that you do n't even have to re-compile them to move them from one machine type to another , and indeed bits of them may even wander from processor type to processor type in the course of execution . |
| 14 | Female cats are such powerful breeding machines that some of them may even come into heat while they are pregnant . |
| 15 | Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo . |
| 16 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 17 | Even if the technological aspects are fully understood , the application of the law to them may still perplex . |
| 18 | Doctors are themselves not immune from the disease of alcoholism and some of them may therefore give inappropriate reassurance to patients . |
| 19 | Not only may a campaign raise public awareness of the issues involved and win you new supporters , but the sheer relentlessness of pressure and eventual embarrassment at being seen to do nothing may also prompt parliament or Government to introduce new policies . |
| 20 | ‘ I know what you 'd like to do — and it may surprise you , Kit , if I admit that part of me may even want to myself . |
| 21 | Everyone must therefore renew their objections , amending them as appropriate . |
| 22 | There are also two paths , d and e , in figure 13.7 which represent the other unspecified causes ; all variables in a model which have causal paths leading to them must also have arrows reminding us of the proportion unpredicted by the model . |
| 23 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 24 | At the front of Laura 's mind constantly was the realization that these shops bore her name and everything in them must therefore reflect what she stood for . |
| 25 | But all of them must now align against the beast … |
| 26 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 27 | I had seen things which no-one should ever see . |
| 28 | The choice between them should thus rest entirely on simplicity of key — the piece as a whole with all its modulations and sectional key-changes being taken into consideration . |
| 29 | She was already determined that nothing should ever frighten her . |
| 30 | As coach Roddan says : ‘ The race is so short that nothing can be allowed to go wrong — and nothing must ever distract them . ’ |