Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 2 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 3 | Rags and dusters with polish , window-cleaning liquid or white spirit on them should also be removed . |
| 4 | His violence towards them might even be deemed no more than a Satanic desire to get them used to the notion of reigning in Hell rather than serving in Heaven . |
| 5 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 6 | They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers . |
| 7 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 8 | The value of this work can be assessed by the fact that of 2,000 parts which may be needed for the repair of a bomber , 1,000 of them could often be obtained from such recoveries . |
| 9 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 10 | Only the priests remained , and the Colonel and the Factor and none of them could really be asked . |
| 11 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |
| 12 | ‘ If a PR programme is to be effective , then it is vital that its objectives be defined ; that means of achieving them shall then be determined … and that progress , success and failure be reviewed . ’ |
| 13 | He claims that even if the files are confidential they are the responsibility of the Information Office and anyone wishing to consult them would normally be expected to ask permission . |
| 14 | She had only ever loved one man — and tomorrow the barrier that stood between them would finally be removed , when Anna married another . |
| 15 | Their own consensual efforts to deny and suppress them would then be exposed for the deceitful sham they have always been . |
| 16 | Next , because while they apply primarily to those who work on their own account , they may equally be used by employees who work for companies which do not have a pension scheme or which have a scheme for which they , as individuals , are not eligible . |
| 17 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 18 | They may soon be joined by elected sympathisers . |
| 19 | The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial . |
| 20 | What they may unconsciously be looking for is containment . |
| 21 | They may even be taught that the mind is organised around this kind of contrast , which is ‘ natural ’ in language and thought . |
| 22 | They may even be found in the Link trainer or , perhaps , in the Navigation Section ! |
| 23 | They may even be held by the same people . |
| 24 | Otherwise , if the team does n't show up after one or two public announcements , they may well be disbarred . |
| 25 | They may still be in a considerable amount of pain and shock , they will undoubtedly have financial worries and they may well be experiencing difficulties in coming to terms with the implications of the accident for themselves and their families . |
| 26 | Feelings that have been firmly repressed , near the surface yet still not sufficiently available to be formed into words , can express themselves through bodily symptoms ; if these feelings relate to permeability , they may well be expressed on the skin - rashes , blotches , spots and boils — and become boundary symptoms . |
| 27 | For other social groups , however , they may well be seen as back regions to be avoided . |
| 28 | They may well be tempted to take their businesses private again . |
| 29 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 30 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |