Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dangerous species is defined as ‘ a species ( a ) which is not commonly domesticated in the British Islands and ( b ) whose fully grown animals normally have such characteristics that they are likely , unless restrained , to cause severe damage or that any damage they may cause is likely to be severe . ’ |
| 2 | The ash is a classic example of a tree which holds on to its fruits well into the next season even though they may have been ripe since October . |
| 3 | When the first-night audience studied their printed librettos , they may have been intrigued by the curious frontispiece . |
| 4 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 5 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 6 | Other dinosaurs , namely the duckbilled hadrosaurs — herbivorous versions of T. Rex — were found with fossilized ribs that frequently revealed healed breaks , hinting that they may have been involved in fights or in ritualized trials of strength in which their massive hind feet were used . |
| 7 | In Nigeria , saplings occupied by Pachysima aethiops have more leaves and branches and less attack than those without but , because the few larger workers have a ferocious sting and the habit of dropping from the crown , it is suggested that they may have been effective against large browsing mammals too ; the ants also attack nearby plants and keep the host 's leaves clear of debris and epiphyllae . |
| 8 | In the fifth-century versions Aristogeiton is a pace in front , on the Roman relief a pace behind — perhaps only for clarity ; in the original they may have been level . |
| 9 | They may have been surprised by the contents of her second volume . |
| 10 | They may have been hard but they could all play a bit as well . |
| 11 | They may have been open-fronted , the borders of the open seam being either fastened together or pinned back at the breast , again with brooches and pins . |
| 12 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 13 | Doctors at the French town of Moutiers said if they had been told sooner on Saturday they may have been able to save some of the victim 's lives . |
| 14 | They may have been glad , since she was turning out to be hard to amuse , that she slept deeply in the early afternoons . |
| 15 | Others thought they may have been blood-cooling devices , similar to the large ears of African elephants . |
| 16 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 17 | They 're aligned east to west which suggests they may have been Christian burials . |
| 18 | They may have been purpose-built for pedestrians , or be ordinary streets where the traffic flow is restricted ( usually to emergency services and possibly delivery vans ) . |
| 19 | They may have been reluctant to lose the tenuous support and camaraderie of heterosexual men and women who think of them as safe . |
| 20 | But the Kuwaitis ' tactics and timing are interesting : as holder of the only stake smaller than Hongkong 's they ought to have been able to sway what threatened to be a contested offer . |
| 21 | He paused and added , ‘ If anyone took them , they must have been clever — there are no fingerprints to be found , apart from the two nurses ' . ’ |
| 22 | What types of boats were used is hard to conceive , but they must have been small and of shallow draught . |
| 23 | This means they must have been capable of crawling onto the land , like the sole survivors today of such creatures , called the dipnoans , a type of fish with lungs which live in Africa , Australia and South America . |
| 24 | Even all the London press were raving about Leeds … which means they MUST have been good … okay , the team ; |
| 25 | Presumably they went out of favour because when one thinks about them , they must have been dangerous . |
| 26 | Now I have considerable respect for the House of Commons ' Environment Committee but I think on this occasion they must have been tired and emotional when they wrote that . |
| 27 | They must have been close to the same age , but Sandra looked very young , like a petulant child wearing the costume of a grown woman . |
| 28 | They must have been amazed and resentful that Pyke wanted to listen to me , of all people , someone who was barely an actor . |
| 29 | Little was known about bacteria and viral infections , and they must have been hard to avoid without knowledge of modern hygiene standards , let alone the benefits of refrigeration and freezers . |
| 30 | Although the nature of the vagotomies surveyes in these reports is not stated , the follow up period is such that they must have been truncal vagotomies . |