Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 2 | Variants of ( Ε ) and ( o ) do not form a continuum along a single linear scale , but each of them may be said to be part of one or more subscales which can be constructed on , for example , the continua of roundness , or backness or length . |
| 3 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 4 | Quality Control activities can be very costly , and since they represent an overhead cost in the production area , the degree of time and resources spent on them must be related to factors such as price , consistency , safety and legal requirements , for example . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , anyone phoning who wants to buy shiny tights with the word ‘ climb ’ on them must be referred to The Samaritans . |
| 6 | Initial enquiries about the content of the data and access to them should be made to either Professor John Fox at City University or Ken Fogelman at the National Children 's Bureau . |
| 7 | His zeal for the American design had even extended to the suggestion that a batch of them should be sold to the Shah of Iran . |
| 8 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 9 | He also said there were 230 patients at Aycliffe Hospital who faced an uncertain future and some of them could be moved to the Memorial hospital . |
| 10 | It seemed as though she liked to keep those she loved to herself , as if by sharing , some part of them would be lost to her forever . |
| 11 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 12 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 13 | Most proceedings may be commenced in either court , though they may be transferred to the other court in due course ; of the rest , there are some which should always be commenced in the county court and others which should always be commenced in the High Court ( notwithstanding that the county court has jurisdiction to hear the case ) . |
| 14 | It is initially intended to launch these schemes in Germany and Switzerland but they may be extended to other countries later . |
| 15 | No other warranties or conditions to such effect may be implied except insofar as they may be annexed to the contract by custom or trade usage ( s14(4) of SGA 1979 , ss4(7) , 9(7) of SGSA 1982 ) . |
| 16 | RSI , by the use of an infrared ( IR ) line scanner , microwave radiometer , radar scatterometer and two sophisticated versions of the familiar optical camera offered a complete range of airborne remote sensing techniques , particularly as they may be applied to natural resources management . |
| 17 | When such changes are induced in the germ cells , they may be transmitted to descendants of the irradiated persons . |
| 18 | If adjustment to these constraints appears ( on the basis of psychological and/or physiological evidence ) to be innate rather than learned , they may be said to be ‘ built in ’ , or ‘ hard-wired ’ . |
| 19 | To the extent that these parts of the social structure are based on the same values , they may be said to be integrated . |
| 20 | They may be said to be exercising an administrative function . |
| 21 | Because food chains are simple , minerals absorbed into primary production settle in sediments where , in the absence of decomposers and detritus feeders , they may be lost to circulation . |
| 22 | I must announce to the House that I have not selected either of the amendments on the Order Paper , but they may be referred to during the debate . |
| 23 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
| 24 | They may be laid to rest by ringing a bell which has been blessed in church when they are sighted , then burying the bell in one stretch of water and the clapper in another . |
| 25 | All pupils need to be aware of the richness of experience offered by writing in English from different countries , so that they may be introduced to the ideas and feelings of countries different from their own , and so we shall help the cause of racial tolerance . |
| 26 | Then , a few days later , after the pigeons have had time to rest , they may be taken to some other point , perhaps one hundred miles south this time , and they will repeat the trick . |
| 27 | They may be driven to a frenzy by the pains , with a total loss of consideration for others ; they may be quarrelsome , disputative and uncivil . |
| 28 | And it may be argued that centralist solutions are dangerous , not only because in any particular administration they may be used to bad effect , but because in principle they inhibit freedom . |
| 29 | They may also be used in pressurized rural areas as a strategy for concentrating growth in order to relieve congestion in other villages , while in more remote regions they may be used to ‘ intercept ’ or reduce out-migration . |
| 30 | Or they may be coming to us , I do n't know . |