Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since it suits ill with his vocation , and perhaps bodes no good to — the other one — neither of them may be anxious to say it openly for all to hear . |
| 2 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 3 | However , this embraces a wide variety of behaviours ; the relationship between them may be cooperative or coercive ; their roles may be ill-defined or clearly-defined , overlapping , conflicting etc . |
| 4 | British people realize that for better or worse their destiny is inextricably intertwined with that of the U.S. even though some of them may be reluctant to admit it . |
| 5 | Some couples whose cohabitation has worked well for them may be surprised , hurt or bewildered when , legally married , they find their relationship deteriorating . |
| 6 | To them may be added differences in fertility levels and patterns , in prevalence of contraceptive use and in organized activities to regulate fertility . |
| 7 | Some of them may be able to start up new interests , but it 's usually best to start from their own experiences in life . |
| 8 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 9 | As Lorenz wrote , ‘ one of them may be inclined to go on to mouth-pulling a few seconds before the other one . |
| 10 | If coal is to be the choice , does my right hon. Friend agree that scrubbers are essential at coal-fired power stations and the type of coal put into them must be low in sulphur dioxide emissions ? |
| 11 | If a sequence of six enzymes is needed for a particular synthetic pathway , all six genes for making them must be present . |
| 12 | Each of them must be aware of what that role is and understand how crime affects profitability , investment and employment opportunities . |
| 13 | Since the majority of modern machines have airbrakes which are held closed by a geometric lock , it is essential that the method of checking them must be foolproof for this kind of system . |
| 14 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 15 | Put crudely , that law states that if A contradicts B , at least one of them must be false . |
| 16 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 17 | All games ’ pitches and ornamental areas are out of bounds , even though the areas adjoining them should be okay . |
| 18 | The administrative effort involved in collecting them should be devoted instead to improving enforcement of other taxes , ’ argued a recent International Monetary Fund study . |
| 19 | I want one of them might be nice for Natty . |
| 20 | We have to encourage counsellees that talking about the issues which worry them might be helpful . |
| 21 | Institutional rearing and other adverse childhood experience is liable to produce a feeling that one is in the hands of fate , thus anything to increase the young person 's social problem-solving skills and their belief in their own ability to control what happens to them might be helpful . |
| 22 | However , the distances between Asp84 , Glu 115 , Glu204 and Glu238 are short , indicating that some of them might be uncharged ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 23 | And although many of them might be poor in some ways , that did n't mean they had no money to spend . |
| 24 | Certainly when the population was declining , one would expect that tenants might be hard to find and that concessions to them might be necessary , either in the form of a rent reduction or a cut in the entry fine , or in an extension of the period of the lease . |
| 25 | If the receiver succeeds in his plans to sell the company as a going concern then most of them might be able to hang on to their positions . |
| 26 | Although the radiation from most would be very weak because they are far away , the total from all of them might be detectable . |
| 27 | Wilson could see that when scrubbed the red and white patterns upon them might be pretty . |
| 28 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 29 | Few of them could be other than mere contrivances , devoid of any obvious unity and as arbitrary and controversial as those miscalled " natural communities " that have been proposed for the operation of the STV . |
| 30 | So some them could be pre-educated anyway . |