Example sentences of "they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after ‘ drying out ’ , they may feel strongly pulled back into the drug world . |
| 2 | They will be moved to the ‘ death house ’ into a room that is often adjacent to the electric chair where they may hear the chair being tested at regular intervals . |
| 3 | They may , however , not be exactly what the author would have preferred , as a colour plate which is readily available ( perhaps having been used in another publication ) is much cheaper to use than a new plate which has to be commissioned . |
| 4 | If comparisons are included they may be with an artist whose work is considered by the author to be inferior to the subject of the monograph . |
| 5 | Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto . |
| 6 | Even taped interviews can only be read with caution , since they may have been edited , and the reader will not be told how . |
| 7 | People in pictures can be more problematic to describe , since they may not be identifiable , a special difficulty with portraits . |
| 8 | While they may describe the work , they avoid describing their own responses to it . |
| 9 | But in passing , as they may be thought to have done , from journalism to fiction , Naipaul 's feelings , and their objects , underwent a change . |
| 10 | Races insult each other , and make war , and make love , and they may mix these activities up . |
| 11 | Heirs to the freedoms which , on the threshold of the Sixties , Take a girl like you may be thought to have assisted in inaugurating , but which it also contrived to criticise , young people now seem to feel that the old Patrick belonged to a sexist work , and they may well feel that the old Adam has surfaced again in the new Patrick . |
| 12 | Brothers may be rivals , and they may be internalised . |
| 13 | But it should also be said that some elements of this description of mine could be taken to characterise the activity , sometimes ominous enough in its human implications , of all imaginative writers , however remote they may be from the dualistic confederacy . |
| 14 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 15 | He said your body is like a book in which men may read strange things , a foreign country in which they may travel with delight . |
| 16 | Without a text to assist them they may prevaricate too long before facing the brutal truth . |
| 17 | Once The Stage covered all finals productions from the drama schools , but now they may write up a play perhaps once a year . |
| 18 | Where the tutorial focuses on current productions , I have found that students will work hard on their performances and be open about their work and any problems they may be having with the characters they are playing . |
| 19 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 20 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 21 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 22 | Since the new constitution was enacted in 1937 , the prohibition on divorce has become so strict that couples who have been granted a nullity decree by Roman catholic canonical tribunals have found that they may still not be recognized as single by the state , and are thus unable to remarry in the Republic . |
| 23 | The ‘ community ’ or comprehensive-type schools which are beginning to replace vocational and local church schools have a more religious flavour , as they may include the interests of a former convent , which the new school is in part replacing , a former vocational school , and possibly a former diocesan boys ' school as well . |
| 24 | In ten years ' time , I said to him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , they may still remember us both . |
| 25 | Many within the industry admit privately , however , that they may be less inclined to appoint someone who declares their infection at their interview . |
| 26 | We talk about sweet and sour but they may have five different sweets and five different sours . ’ |
| 27 | There will be some differences , but they may be too slight to be noticed by the customers , who would normally see only one piece of each item in any case . |
| 28 | They may contain any of the basic seed varieties or a combination of all three . |
| 29 | Her films are by no means as simple as they may have first appeared . |
| 30 | They may be joined by the gorgeous lime-green flowers of Smyrnium perfoliatum , a plant which is either a satisfactory spreader or an invasive pest , depending on your point of view . |