Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter .
2 They may yet have a marginal impact on the projected two-hour general strike , planned for next Monday , but by then it may already be too late to matter .
3 Surely , investors will be less willing to buy and sell shares if they think that they may soon become the ‘ victims ’ of insider dealing .
4 They may soon reassess the outcome of eastern Germany 's strike and decide the damage to business and the economy is less grave .
5 Thanks to Saudi Arabia they may soon have a reactor too .
6 But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period .
7 They may even make a permanent identification with it , and this can cause problems when the children leave home .
8 They may even represent the beta-blocker treatment failures .
9 They may even ignore the shaping because they intend to cut and sew .
10 True some modes of thought are in certain circumstances and periods dominant over others ; they may even hold the envied status of an official orthodoxy .
11 Indeed , they may even increase the diffusion of technological information within the co-operating group .
12 In fact they may even have a date for you here .
13 ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! )
14 Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement .
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16 They may well love the new baby , but that does n't stop them giving it a tweak when your back is turned .
17 They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt .
18 But in practice , if most countries want to go ahead with something , they may well ignore a lone dissenter .
19 And on a more mundane level , they may well want the tourists back , before martial law , Lhasa was becoming a sought-after destination for western travellers and for their dollars .
20 If the tetras can seek their own ‘ space ’ , then they may well leave the loaches in peace .
21 Because of the way PPs are structured , they may well give a better pension than SERPS does if you pay in when you are young ; but the older you are , the less value they are .
22 They may well feel the case against your brother is substantially weakened by what 's come to light .
23 They may well have a reflex aetiology with an afferent arc situated in the colonic wall as well as in the gastric wall — not unlike the gastrocolic reflex .
24 In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March .
25 If accepting shareholders feel that the offeror has behaved badly , they may well accept a cash offer but feel reluctant to invest on a long-term basis in the offeror .
26 They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use .
27 Well he 's gone on seven days of the week complaining about so and so we 'll just narrow that down to one article about his his complaint that they may just make a little note he 's complained seven times about this !
28 They may just receive an unexpected knock at the door — and it wo n't be Santa calling .
29 They may also cover the costs of insurance of personal effects in transit , storage charges and travel and hotel accommodation costs for employees and their families during the move .
30 School monitors are distinguished in many ways , the most obvious being the vermilion gown ; they may also grow a moustache .
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