Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , however , being unused to the sensations of the journey , they may well be car sick . |
| 2 | They may well be animals who bite the hand which feeds them ! ’ |
| 3 | And they have a far greater proportion of the Greater York area than we do , erm as I outlined we just have three relatively modest villages , erm our , we do have a concern erm , on this , in that we do n't ac , given there 's a a district and an area have not be identified , we do n't feel that there has been a comparative assessment of the two options , we do n't dispute that they may well be harm er from peripheral development around other distric , around settlements in other districts , we acknowledged other other District Council 's concerns , and indeed , these are arguments we have used ourselves on the scale of development in Hambledon , er but we do n't feel that there has been a properly balanced assessment of the two options . |
| 4 | However , logical equivalence between two sentences differing only in respect of lexical items occupying a particular syntactic position does not guarantee that the lexical items in question are cognitive synonyms — they may well be pseudo-synonyms . |
| 5 | The company structure introduces the statutory requirement for an audit and the concept of directors ' liability even though they may not be shareholders . |
| 6 | They must not be accommodation bills , where no underlying transaction exists , where the bill has been accepted so that it can be discounted for capital purposes . |
| 7 | The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) . |
| 8 | The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators . |
| 9 | I do n't know why some of them get like that , well of course they should n't be doctors any how . |
| 10 | They should also be jobs that young people might have experienced difficulty in gaining access to , without Compact . |
| 11 | They should still be disk . |
| 12 | They 'll soon be potato picking . |
| 13 | The they were scabs then and the scabs now , and they 'll always be scabs all their lives now . |
| 14 | No matter what they do they 'll always be scabs . |
| 15 | Otherwise , they might simply be part of the background . |
| 16 | they were n't , they were n't gentlemen so they could n't be er they could n't be officers . |
| 17 | ‘ They could also be drug-runners who do n't care for strangers . |
| 18 | She says even if they look angelic , they could still be thieves . |
| 19 | Oh no , I mean the these were clients and they could never be friends after doing that I 've come to the conclusion you can either keep your money or you can keep your friends , but you 're not going to do both . |
| 20 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 21 | Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover . |
| 22 | They 'd still be mates of course , for there was no side to Charlie Hatton . |
| 23 | It was well under a decade ; they 'd still be kids . |
| 24 | They 'd only be evidence of her crush on Harry , not of his presence at her death . ’ |
| 25 | Such new-style RE must be taught by experts , though they need not be theologians . |
| 26 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 27 | Thus , if an organisation chooses not to recognise its e-mail messages as having formal record status and its procedures accurately reflect this , then they would not be records and vice versa . |
| 28 | It is time that players realised that if their club had not given them their chance they would not be internationals . |
| 29 | Though they are not much good on paper — if they were they would not be generals — they can not resist the squat little volumes . |
| 30 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |