Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Libel plaintiffs are virtually obliged to go into the witness box , where they may be cross-examined in detail about matters relevant to their reputations . |
| 2 | There are those whose keenest pleasures in their job are to be found outside the class-room , in informal contacts with their pupils , where they may be able to exercise their own skills or pursue their own hobbies while helping others enjoy the same pleasures . |
| 3 | By then the office would be busy and they would have to contrive a meeting where they would be unobserved . |
| 4 | The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision . |
| 5 | It turned out the travel agent had told them their tickets were for tourist class where they would be safe . |
| 6 | References may not be recommended where they could be appropriate or useful ; in other places , too many references can make for a very tedious search . |
| 7 | She opened her mouth to speak , but could not force the sounds out , could not manage to say to Rosalba that Tommaso had wanted her to give him a different rendezvous , somewhere where they could be alone . |
| 8 | Before putting themselves forward for selection , potential candidates and their families need to be aware of the foreign country 's environment — for instance its language(s) , climate and culture , its housing and education facilities , what security is like , and where they will be living and working . |
| 9 | They need a home where they will be safe from hunting animals such as bears or lynx and they also need a place to store food for the winter when the land is snow-bound . |
| 10 | The coelenterate communicative process is well known by the large marine invertebrate importers and dealers who usually segregate coelenterates by species devoting a tank to a single species where they will be happy placed close together . |
| 11 | The youths will also study at the University of Southwestern Louisiana where they will be able to improve their employment opportunities . |
| 12 | Any graduate visiting the University should first make for the Visitors ' Centre , where they can be sure of a warm welcome . |
| 13 | But the same kind of people , very often , who are in trouble , are the ones who want somewhere quiet and peaceful where they can be alone with God and they can pray , and so in a sense it 's not a matter of turn them out of the church , it 's a matter of of encouraging them to use the church building in particular ways . |
| 14 | My aim is to start further ‘ up-stream ’ than that , by helping teachers who wish it , to get in a frame of mind where they can be interested in that kind of advice . |
| 15 | Individuals may perform either role by itself ; or they might be active in both roles , and successfully at that ; or they may be strong in one but not in the other . |
| 16 | They may attack others physically or verbally , screaming all the insults they can invent ; or they may be destructive , wilfully damaging or destroying anything that is handy when they lose their temper . |
| 17 | Such rock bodies may be either molten , in the strict sense , or they may be solid and move very slowly at elevated temperatures and pressures through a form of plastic flow . |
| 18 | For tax purposes , losses may be carried forward and , subject to certain restrictions , set against future profits or they may be relieved against profits elsewhere in a group of companies . |
| 19 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 20 | However , the foundation of a new settlement/cemetery may be the result of shifting patterns brought about by such things as soil exhaustion and plague , or they may be new settlements caused by a growth of population . |
| 21 | The symbols X , Y , … on the right may be symbols which occur in the text ( terminal symbols ) ; or they may be other symbols which are invented for use just within the grammar ( variables ) . |
| 22 | The effect of such accidents may be minor or they may be far-reaching . |
| 23 | Discharges may be permanent and persistent , or they may be episodic or isolated . |
| 24 | Intermediate targets may be genuine targets which can be aimed for in their own right or they may be spurious targets if they are just subdivisions of the journey to the main target . |
| 25 | Or they may be fine metal wires intended simply to record the electrical activity occurring in the cells in their vicinity . |
| 26 | In this first level relationship , the educational institution may seek out gifts or they may be unsolicited but the relationship essentially involves the giving and receiving of gifts . |
| 27 | Or they may be unable to find food . |
| 28 | The visitors may be indifferent to the inmates , or they may be horrified at their plight and wish to help them ( p. 119 ) . |
| 29 | They may , for instance , be capable of rising magnificently to the occasion when a neighbour 's sick , deprived , or even delinquent child needs help , or they may be wonderful wives , husbands or parents and do much useful voluntary work in the community , and yet lack the particular type of emotional muscle required to support old people . |
| 30 | We saw in chapter 4 that mixtures may be homogeneous , in which case they exist as a single phase , or they may be heterogeneous . |