Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
| 2 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 3 | A number of organisations require employees to submit receipts and VAT invoices so that they may reclaim the VAT paid as a business expense . |
| 4 | If , however , their conduct is itself disorderly , they may commit the less serious offence . |
| 5 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 6 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 7 | If they are too selective , they may miss the vital factor . |
| 8 | They may choose a paper for its coverage of sports and scandals and then be subjected to its coverage of politics . |
| 9 | For example , Private Acts of Parliament are treated as legislation even though they may regulate the conduct of only a single individual ; on the other hand , an ‘ administrative order ’ affecting a large number of people may be difficult to distinguish from as legislative act . |
| 10 | Consequently , they may neglect the child 's need to develop a balanced racial identity and thereby a well-integrated personality . |
| 11 | In fact , if the social sciences are really to explain the social world , would it not be wiser to retreat from the demand that they must conform to a single standard of explanation , and allow instead that they may encompass a variety of projects ? |
| 12 | opportunistic predators are good samplers of local small mammal communities , but they may alter the proportions of the species ; |
| 13 | Hence they are faced with a dilemma : the business may continue to operate at the same level , but without the prospect of expansion , or they may alter the form of business enterprise to a partnership or a company . |
| 14 | They may alter the predicted times of high or low water by up to one hour , but the effects are much less easy to quantify as winds are very variable and are strongly influenced by the topography of the local area . |
| 15 | They may detain the suspect for 24 hours ( extendable by the prosecutor to 48 hours ) and question him without access to legal advice or notification of his right to maintain silence . |
| 16 | Given that these insider/fiduciaries occupy a privileged position of trust in relation to the affairs of the company , it is conceivable that they may inflict a hurt upon it . |
| 17 | Alternatively , they may regard the single warning given by one policeman in the presence of a colleague as issuing from both . |
| 18 | Help those who seek to communicate the gospel , in words , in pictures , in books , on radio , television and films ; give them the help of your Holy Spirit , so that they may convey the message of hope and new life to the hearts and the minds of those who hear , who read , who watch . |
| 19 | In some cases they may worsen the situation for market participants by reducing liquidity in an unanticipated way which offsets any benefits arising from a closer " fit " to investment needs . |
| 20 | ‘ But so long as the system remains as it is , those who choose to disregard their obligations must realise they may face a fine . ’ |
| 21 | Old people are frightened to open their doors because they know they may face a menacing crowd , all demanding sweets or money . |
| 22 | At the same time , some people also said that although they were aware that they may face an early death , they also felt fortunate to have lived as long as they had . |
| 23 | Despite these important advancements , however , the problem of what happens to mentally handicapped people when they reach the later school-leaving age of nineteen remains , and what happens when they may face the prospects of a lifetime of unfulfilment which could quickly undermine the considerable efforts made by teachers , houseparents , parents and guardians to help the mentally handicapped child attain his or her full potential . |
| 24 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps they may think the sport is in a period of relative driving mediocrity , ’ answered Jackie . |
| 26 | They may think the experimenter wants to know himself and not realise that he just wants to know whether the child knows the answer . |
| 27 | They may think that their jobs will be less secure , that they might lose the independence that they previously enjoyed , that their relationships with others will change for the worse and they might lose status , they may think the change unnecessary and they may simply fear change in itself . |
| 28 | They may continue the case in order to gain more information ; they may make a supervision order , involving the child living at home but under regular supervision , or being sent to live elsewhere in the care of others ; or they may discharge the referral altogether . |
| 29 | Alternatively , they may prefer the limited protection provided by keeping each other ( and their own needs ) at arm 's length by replaying the old scenarios . |
| 30 | As long-term bond prices are far more volatile than short-term ones , they may prefer the latter . |