Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The differences found between them may throw light on certain rarely remarked properties of the object which suggest that it has a major role in the development of cognitive abilities and the ways in which the world is perceived , understood and lived in . |
| 2 | To further subdivide them may make record-keeping impossibly complicated . |
| 3 | Some of them may accept equity as part of the necessary restructuring of GPA 's debts . |
| 4 | My constituents , er many of them will be concerned personally because they may have a relative in the army , now that we 've got ground troops out there , or they may have a relative who 's lived there or , or you know , God forbid , some of , some of them may have relatives who , who are hostages . |
| 5 | Some of them may become teachers in schools , and may , as a result of those interests , welcome a greater emphasis on the teaching of knowledge about language . |
| 6 | People of opposing political views can live together , as can people of different religions , until something happens to make them meet head-on , and then one of them must give way . |
| 7 | Julia heard the name ‘ Jonathan ’ , but she made a determined effort not to translate the Italian words , knowing how much the two of them must need privacy . |
| 8 | Let Ephraim Cook keep the business in order for Amabel and Gemma , and whoever came after them must take care of themselves . |
| 9 | They were to be renamed Colleges of Education ; a new degree , to be called Bachelor of Education and validated by the universities , would be introduced for their more able students ; they should be removed from the public sector and closely linked with the universities ; and some of them should become universities in their own right . |
| 10 | Raffle tickets will be sold at British Home Stores in Darlington on April 11 , anyone who would like to help sell them should contact Moira Shields at Farmway . |
| 11 | About 60 members and their friends are heading off to Whitehead for the day and anyone who would like to join them should contact Billy ( tel Belfast 423740 ) for further details . |
| 12 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 13 | When the mill was finished , a few of them might get work in it ( but the Flemyngs wanted girls for it because they would work more days ) . |
| 14 | Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy . |
| 15 | Not only are the proposals right in themselves , but many of them might win support at Maastricht . |
| 16 | Now some of them could find fame closer to home . |
| 17 | Why , thought Joe , should Blackbeard think either of them could read Russian ? |
| 18 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 19 | The MOD wants to keep them ; the liberal democrats want them used to cut housing waiting lists . |
| 20 | Some of them used to conceal tea in their shoes . |
| 21 | They were told also that half of them would face redundancy . |
| 22 | He hoped that only one of them would accompany Taheb and himself to the door , and he hoped that person would be Nephthys . |
| 23 | ‘ I bet my friend , who commands the 4th Battalion of the Presidential Guard , that he could deploy 50 men and that none of them would lay hands on you . |
| 24 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 25 | Naked women cycled energetically round an indoor track as spectators placed bets on which of them would reach orgasm first from the rubbing of clitoris on saddle . |
| 26 | Now , if you consider all possible ways in which the rocks of Mont Blanc could have been thrown together , it is true that only one of them would make Mont Blanc as we know it . |
| 27 | The estate may suffer because it may be impossible for the personal representative to sell the shares at their true value , especially if any attempt to dispose of them would trigger rights of pre-emption or first refusal . |
| 28 | The Junkers engineered the belief that any attempt to ditch them would leave Germany prey to communist take-over , to Jewish exploitation and subversion , and to a flood of Slav immigrants . |
| 29 | Oh , the powerful lords owed my brother , and now me , monies but none of them would dare renege . |
| 30 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |