Example sentences of "they [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a situation where two dissimilar languages with unequal status — for example , Standard English and French Creole — coexist in one community , the dynamic which evolves between them may in theory lead to any one of several different states . |
| 2 | One of them might in fact be Glitter Grey who runs in the Mickey McArdle Chase at Dundalk next Friday night . |
| 3 | None of them could with certainty decide what was causing my spasms . |
| 4 | They may of course enable people to live in the community longer before a prolonged and expensive period of institutionalized decline until death ; or they may fail to bring about any significant changes . |
| 5 | They may of course have been quite coincidental ; but already there was a link , was there not ? |
| 6 | But just as some marriages can at times feel suffocating , so they may at others feel uncomfortably distant . |
| 7 | Because it is so easy for women to slip into a shared area with each other , they may at times have a fear of doing so , in case they lose their individuality . |
| 8 | The same is generally true of diurnal raptors , although they can also take larger animals because with their stronger beaks and talons they are able to overpower and kill larger and more powerful prey , and they may on occasion hunt cooperatively ( Bednarz , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 10 | Commentators do not have the guaranteed ability to influence directly the competitive environment , although , of course , they may over time have a significant indirect influence . |
| 11 | They may in practice be the only things that do . |
| 12 | They seek friendship , fun , love — different sorts of goals — and , what is more important , they may in fact have more satisfying lives than the restless high achievers . |
| 13 | Importantly , they may in fact be helping you come to terms with the traumatic experience . |
| 14 | Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view . |
| 15 | Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery . |
| 16 | Accordingly they do not have to be rescued from death by a Saviour ; nor from Hell , for they are not judged at death to Hell or Heaven , but sent to ‘ the halls of Mandos ’ , from which they may in time return . |
| 17 | In order to achieve this they may from time to time have to change the form in order to preserve the meaning . |
| 18 | In the secondary sector they may from time to time be concerned with defined localities and with those young people who come to their attention from specific communities . |
| 19 | I think they ought a drop res out of it . |
| 20 | Capital gains are a better proxy for the full benefits from interlocking holdings , since they ought in principle to absorb the value created in all the businesses involved . |
| 21 | This suggests that the maxims do indeed derive from general considerations of rationality applicable to all kinds of cooperative exchanges , and if so they ought in addition to have universal application , at least to the extent that other , culture-specific , constraints on interaction allow . |
| 22 | trying to tell them that they they must of course need in fact to spend two and a half thousand pound on a full page in a medical practice booklet er for two years , you 've got ta be punchy on the phone have n't you Trevor ? |
| 23 | Where parts have names such as these , they should of course be used . |
| 24 | Yes , I think that , I think that would be fair , but er for instance , hotels , establishments , they should of course , pay much more . |
| 25 | Well they should by law , surely ! |
| 26 | So banks hang on to business that they should by rights lose , but find it hard to win new good-quality business . |
| 27 | Are they to take pride of place , as they should in ballets worthy of the name ? |
| 28 | On the whole , drafts carry more weight in practice than they should in theory , simply because they represent the most up-to-date thought . |
| 29 | These little blocks are positioned along the length of the pickup so that one lies directly under each string — or at least they should in theory . |
| 30 | So , to generate the same annual pension , they should in theory pay more . |