Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building up parental confidence in these techniques can sometimes present a problem as they may be contradictory to the parents ' viewpoint . |
| 2 | This book will therefore explain some of these ordinary means , even though they may be familiar to most moviegoers , as a basis for the extraordinary and generally more elaborate means that are known as SFX . |
| 3 | In fact in many ways they may be preferable to funds raised in the ‘ ordinary ’ way at branch retail level . |
| 4 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 5 | Of course , they may be due to the stochastic component of the process and therefore be unpredictable , or they may be due to the systematic or predictable component . |
| 6 | Alternatively they may be due to radiations coming from the plant , possibly reflectance on top of the simple ON/OFF pixel count due to area . |
| 7 | The departmental systems maybe mission critical in other words they may be important to them you know they may be necessary to doing business to getting out orders or what have you . |
| 8 | In any event , firms will have to comply with the Bank of England 's Grey Paper relating to the wholesale money markets if they deal in them , even if they are not in fact listed institutions , and so they may be subject to two tiers of regulation . |
| 9 | Changes which , whilst they may be confusing to those of you seeking a place at university , poly or college , also offer advantages for all . |
| 10 | We trust the author will hereafter reprint these expensive volumes in such a form as that they may be accessible to naturalists ; and thereby diffuse science , instead of restricting it to those only who are wealthy . ’ |
| 11 | They may be unresponsive to ministerial suggestions , and they may make this opposition very clear through the local authority associations . |
| 12 | Local authorities now support elderly people in their own homes as far as possible , or in the local authority homes in the areas in which they live , so that they may be near to relatives and friends and their old associations . |
| 13 | They may be prone to arguments and quarrel over any imagined offence . |
| 14 | While siding with the poor is more rewarding because the poor represent less attractive pickings than the rich , they may be able to ‘ bargain' on the terms on which their support is obtained . |
| 15 | The departmental systems maybe mission critical in other words they may be important to them you know they may be necessary to doing business to getting out orders or what have you . |
| 16 | They may be sensitive to a change of weather . |
| 17 | For those who think they may be sensitive to synthetic chemicals , the only sound method of diagnosis is to avoid chemical exposure as much as possible and see if the symptoms improve . |
| 18 | They may be hostile to the global capitalist system and feel that they and Nigeria are victims of exploitation within it . |
| 19 | They may be responsive to his charm , his charisma , his intellectual quality or his symbolic position as Chief of State . |
| 20 | Alternatively ( as happened in many Third World countries in the 1980s ) they may be responsive to the interests of transnational capital in the shape of the World Bank and the IMF imposing ‘ restructuring ’ policies in order to ensure repayment of Third World debts . |
| 21 | Yes … high earners will get bigger fines … but they may be disproportionate to the offence . |
| 22 | Many people never check that their tax code is correct , and never investigate the allowances , grants or benefits that they may be entitled to . |
| 23 | Course they must be used to it doing it must n't they ? |
| 24 | The train was slowing slightly ; they must be close to the station . |
| 25 | They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind . |
| 26 | Moreover , the dancers involved have to take this type of performance very seriously , even though they must be able to ‘ toss off ’ the mistakes with an air of surprised innocence . |
| 27 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 28 | For such methods to gain widespread acceptability they must be comparable to the Parsonnet system in ease of implementation . |
| 29 | At parents ' meetings they must be prepared to be blamed by mothers and fathers with unrealistic expectations of their , the teachers ' , and the children 's abilities . |
| 30 | I have never cared much for men who are all man : they are the ones who smugly believe they must be irresistible to me , and take elaborately cautious steps to protect their priceless male virginity from what they seem to imagine will be my marauding hands . |