Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
| 2 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 3 | Some of them may be men like John , forced by their male pride and their self-image to suffer in silence . |
| 4 | But even If the movements made by the three puppets inside their rooms might seem like dance to some — those who perform them must be actors who can dance . ’ |
| 5 | Leading them must be R. K. Cope , who took pictures of the trackbed , complete with rails , bridges etc , together with a number of shots of stations with rolling stock standing in them . |
| 6 | ‘ But some of them must be business contacts , surely ? ’ she said helplessly . |
| 7 | An elderly parent living alone invariably has problems to cope with , though , in some area of life , and ideally the people to help them should be members of their own family ; people who know their character and understand their needs , those they do not have to make an effort to relate to and trust , and who can move around freely in their homes , to sort through the various ‘ pockets ’ of their anxiety more easily than any stranger can do . |
| 8 | Amongst them should be help coming from outside , things like diplomatic leverage by the ’ superpowers ’ , such as sanctions . |
| 9 | After all , some of them might be football supporters . |
| 10 | Erm it may be some will be not so easy need a bit more work and some of them 'll be sort of in the middle . |
| 11 | There are a lot of barriers that exist between people and training some of them could be things like they do n't have access to child care it could be they lack confidence so we go for support and we can offer training which is local we can offer language support . |
| 12 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 13 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 14 | All of them would be colour versions . |
| 15 | The last person I 'd let interfere with them would be Daniel . |
| 16 | In non-fiction , the other people whose words and thoughts form part of the information may be historical or contemporary figures , or they may be groups , or even humanity in general . |
| 17 | After five years , they may be housegroup leaders and very busy with their Christian responsibilities . |
| 18 | They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book . |
| 19 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 20 | They must think , one day they may be parents . |
| 21 | These ‘ id-impulses ’ may be either for ‘ perverse ’ sexual acts which sometimes can not even be admitted to consciousness as acts which the person desires , or they may be impulses of sadism and destructiveness . |
| 22 | Clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer : ( a ) believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them : ( i ) to cause physical injury to himself or another ; ( ii ) to damage property ; ( iii ) to interfere with evidence ; ( iv ) to assist him to escape ; or ( b ) has reasonable grounds for believing that they may be evidence relating to an offence . |
| 23 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 24 | Though they may be artists , craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a trained and deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 25 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 26 | According to this conception , ideas may be internal sensations like pain ; they may be perceptions of external objects and their qualities . |
| 27 | In other words , they 're not , they 're not extras er in , in the absolute sense , they are necessary for that particular scheme , but they may be things which less erm experienced consultants might omit . |
| 28 | They may be school leavers , graduates , people made redundant or returning to the job market after raising a family . |
| 29 | Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) . |
| 30 | Other addictive relationships such as some sexual practices may be branded by society as being definitely abnormal or even criminal , yet there is evidence that they may be part of the broad spectrum of addictive disease and therefore outside the personal control of the individual sufferer . |