Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They may be mostly kids who still worry about spots — facial as well as first team — but they performed with commendable maturity , resolve and verve at White Hart Lane . |
2 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
3 | They need be only manilla , since they will rarely be taken out of your room . |
4 | Ian Clarke , a Bank of England executive , and his wife Jacqueline promptly turned back to Surrey so they would be nearer Heathrow and Gatwick airports — and better placed to take off for Australia . |
5 | Now they would be only threads in a tapestry of regrets . |
6 | It is uncommon for schools to use processes such as critical path analysis because they can be very time consuming unless used by experts , although simpler versions may be worth considering for example stocks and flows models . |
7 | They can be extremely irritant to the skin and have a very low degree of bio-degradability in purification plants . |