Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witnesses or victims of serious crime are sometimes hypnotised during police investigations to help them to remember , and they may later testify in court . |
| 2 | They may thus account for observable clinical manifestations . |
| 3 | In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement . |
| 4 | Most social services departments will install aids for the disabled and elderly free of charge and they may even pay towards the cost of a yearly holiday , or provide some free holiday facility . |
| 5 | They may even drive on occasions but must not deviate from the agreed route except where reasonable to protect the child . |
| 6 | They may even point to Nazmu Virani . |
| 7 | They may even faint with the pains . |
| 8 | People posted abroad are also unhappy about losing touch with family and friends or they may even worry about what will happen to pets . |
| 9 | They may even agree with some of my points ! |
| 10 | They may even wish for death , but they still care . ’ |
| 11 | They may even get in the way of understanding it . |
| 12 | Instead , fearing a depreciation of sterling , they may well switch to holding other currencies . |
| 13 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 14 | The truth of this creed would then become accepted as axiomatic and be regarded as an article of faith , although , to those who closely examine the propositions they may well appear to be self-evidently true . |
| 15 | Erm , quality of print paper down the print shop does have to be checked so they may well use as a guide but they wo n't necessarily go thorough all the cost estimates . |
| 16 | While both radicals and conservatives might agree about most of the categories , they may well disagree about what is or is not " developmental " . |
| 17 | Alternatively , they may well work on their own account , perhaps for a number of organisations simultaneously . |
| 18 | Most people have absorbed the idea that there is some sort of accountability at the end of life and that they may well need to be preparing to ‘ meet their maker ’ . |
| 19 | Putting the principles above into an analytical and practical context is difficult , not least because they may well conflict with each other . |
| 20 | You can ask for any particularly bad points against the plaintiff to be discussed over the phone or in a covering letter as they may well fall outside the expert 's evidence in chief . |
| 21 | Stereolab always look tonight as if they 've got a few more tricks up their sleeve than anyone else around at the moment , and in an age where recycling the past to create a spurious version of the future is the order of the day , they may well prove to be a benchmark of quality for their times . |
| 22 | The traffic impact of any development could be accommodated without serious detriment to the surrounding area , but although the above constraints are not seen as insurmountable , they may well act as a deterrent to development . |
| 23 | There has also been a miraculous rise of the Liberals from the ashes — they may just squeak past 5 per cent themselves . |
| 24 | Rises in extracellular neurotransmitter concentration may indicate increased synaptic release but they may also depend on non-synaptic release or diminished or ‘ reversed ’ uptake . |
| 25 | They may also depend upon getting people from within the department to work to change old policies which have hitherto been regarded as quite satisfactory . |
| 26 | They may also refer to the relation between structures and the coast , in which case the primary division is usually between longitudinal and transverse coasts . |
| 27 | One major objective of the programmes is to strengthen cultural identity and traditions , and they may also lead to small-scale income-earning projects and ultimately to self-sufficiency . |
| 28 | They may also start with an individual and search for a location . |
| 29 | They may also show in their relationships past patterns of control and authority , together with assumptions about each other , sometimes resented , based on years of family labelling ( 'Meg is the extravagant one' ) . |
| 30 | They may also exist in two or more phases . |