Example sentences of "of they [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ where two or more persons are jointly entitled to a deposit … each of them shall be treated as having a separate deposit of an amount produced by dividing the amount of the deposit to which they are jointly entitled by the number of persons who are so entitled . |
| 2 | And two of them might be called even pedestrian . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So the group at Shepherd 's Bush has a way to go before some of them might be deemed fit to audition there or at other vocational schools . |
| 5 | Five of them might be termed allrounders : Asif Mujtaba , Naved Anjum , Wasim Akram , Aamer Sohail and Shoaib Mohammad can all bat and bowl well , while Salim Malik and Inzamam-ul-Haq are also occasional bowlers . |
| 6 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If two or more higher-level indexes exist , each of them may be handled using a different one of the techniques described below aimed at reducing index search time , depending on their size . |
| 9 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 10 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 11 | The second involves the juxtaposition of two consonants not usually placed together in an attempt to reproduce a sound peculiar to the original language ( e.g. , the " kh " sound in Bakhtiari or Bakhshaish ) ; the two consonants used in this way may vary , or one of them may be left out altogether . |
| 12 | 3.10 Subject as provided in clause 5.5.3 all fixtures affixed to or installed in the Premises as part of the Tenant 's Works ( other than Tenant 's fixtures ) shall become and remain the property of the Landlord notwithstanding that any of them may be affixed or installed after completion of the Lease The difficulty here is ensuring that both parties know what are tenant 's fixtures and it may be as well to include in a schedule the fixtures to which the landlord is referring . |
| 13 | But certain aggravated assaults are singled out by the law for higher maximum penalties , and three of them may be mentioned here . |
| 14 | Oh they were they were er crisscrosses and er and r and some of them would be rounded . |
| 15 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 16 | It was odd when he came to think about it , but every now and again one or two of them would be posted , yet the five men who had accompanied him from Cranwell , and whose beds were at the far end of the hut , were still here . |
| 17 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 18 | The Tern Valley business park , Chairman , the er , the management board met to have a look at the site , we 're getting some demand for some smaller plots have turned down , and there is the proposal that was considered by the , the management but was turned down , to put in a little round , er , so we could rate some of the plots at the bottom of the site in , to er , mark out the plots rather than pull any plots erm , if the construction of them would be funded from , from selling plots in that area . |
| 19 | Ianthe sighed , perhaps foreseeing the day when both of them would be replaced by younger persons . |
| 20 | Not supper — emphasize that — or more of them would be affected by now . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After the capture of the Isle of Wight 20,000 would be collected there and 5–6000 of them would be ferried across the Solent in small boats and landed along the creek separating Hayling Island from Portsea to take the Portsea Lines in the rear , which would only be possible if the guns of Fort Cumberland , on the eastern tip of Portsea Island , were knocked out beforehand by a bombardment by French battleships and bomb-ketches . |
| 23 | Second , the pattern of voting would be the same in the 54 new constituencies as in the actual 108 , in which case 53 of them would be won by the Conservatives . |
| 24 | I 'm always joking that such a coupling would sell 20 copies , and 10 of them would be bought by my mother . |
| 25 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 26 | Some of them would be put over hurdles next season , perhaps one might be sold to Barbados or Abu Dhabi in the forlorn hope that they could win something there , but most of them were racing in the shadow of the knacker 's yard . |
| 27 | Obviously , if probes in this region were deleted one by one , starting from the probes known as repetitive ( containing ribosomal DNA or belonging to telomeres in this case ) , less of them would be deleted and the overlap would be successfully detected . |
| 28 | There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ? |
| 29 | It came as a shock when President Babangida said the associations were rooted in ‘ ethnic and religious bigotry ’ and that all of them would be dissolved forthwith . |
| 30 | There are no hansoms ; and if there were , a file of them would be needed to transport a very ordinary Sahib 's effects . |