Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buyer as well as the seller will often have documents to sign ; for example , if the transfer or other document contains covenants by the buyer ( to observe restrictions or to erect a fence , or on a joint purchase ) the document vesting the property in him , her or them will require execution . |
| 2 | Intermittent sub-parallel reflections beneath the total depth of the well may indicate further Lower Permian lavas and conglomerates , or they may originate in Carboniferous strata beneath . |
| 3 | Readers may effect mappings between role fillers in different clauses of a text or they may effect mappings between names and role fillers . |
| 4 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 5 | Or they may move because their old location is not well placed for transport facilities . |
| 6 | With smaller firms , you may be near enough to visit the factory , or they may offer to put you in touch with some of their customers in your area . |
| 7 | Or they may hope that their contribution to the household economy will restore them to a special place in their parents ' affections . |
| 8 | These unreasonable expectations are behind not a few referrals to social services , or they may militate against success in other cases which involve children and young people . |
| 9 | When this happens , the individuals may disperse or they may stay together in new groupings . |
| 10 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 11 | They may either be conceived as the ultimate arbiters of truth and values ( a function once held by the churches ) or they may meet certain religious or psychological needs . |
| 12 | These can themselves be productive of problems for the people concerned , or they may affect the kind of advice or counsel which the social worker should offer . |
| 13 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 14 | They may continue the case in order to gain more information ; they may make a supervision order , involving the child living at home but under regular supervision , or being sent to live elsewhere in the care of others ; or they may discharge the referral altogether . |
| 15 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 16 | Different people make more use or one sense than another : they may see more than they hear ; or they may feel more than they see , even though they have sight . |
| 17 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 18 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
| 19 | In cancer , these antigens may reappear in tumours derived from epithelial cells that expressed the antigen only during fetal development , or they may disappear in tumours arising from epithelial cells that normally express the antigen . |
| 20 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 21 | The problems encountered may be entirely physical in nature , as with many people who are physically handicapped , or they may stem from psycho-sexual dysfunction with no physical concomitant whatever . |
| 22 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 23 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 24 | There may be only a few , or they may twinkle in their hundreds like some strange city skyline and , most disconcerting of all , a double set of lights may suddenly float up and down like a luminescent yo-yo . |
| 25 | Or they may give the impression that they are not quite sure if you are the right candidate , i.e. they have not done their homework . |
| 26 | Hence they are faced with a dilemma : the business may continue to operate at the same level , but without the prospect of expansion , or they may alter the form of business enterprise to a partnership or a company . |
| 27 | These elements ( the equivalent of nerve cells ) may be tangible silicon chips or they may exist only in the cyberspace of a working computer program . |
| 28 | or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body , and so decrease in relative size , which is negative allometry . |
| 29 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
| 30 | Built-in ovens may be designed to go under the worktop ( built-under ) , either beneath the hob or away from it , or they may fit into housing units so that the oven(s) are more accessible . |