Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the fit is close they may serve their entire career in that organization . |
| 2 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 3 | It is not uncommon for the carer to fear that they may predecease their partner , who will thus be deserted . |
| 4 | Their children have grown up , perhaps left home and , however much they may love their parents , they no longer need them in the same way . |
| 5 | When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , . |
| 6 | The falcons share with the owls ( p. 177 ) a number of marked behaviour differences from hawks , eagles , buzzards and other members of the Accipitridae ( p. 70 ) ; their droppings fall straight down from the perch instead of being squirted away ; they build no nest of their own ; they kill their prey by biting and severing the back of the neck ; they hold their food in one claw ; the young hiss when afraid or threatening ; and they may bob their heads to show curiosity . |
| 7 | Does he further agree that the best security for the people of Northern Ireland is in talks and an agreement between political leaders and parties within Northern Ireland so that they may govern their own Province in the interests of all its people ? |
| 8 | Where firms use ‘ workshop ’ affiliates in developing countries , they may lower their total costs below those of stay-at-home rivals . |
| 9 | By practice banks withdraw their callable funds with the discount house by 12 noon , but they may offer their surpluses to them up until the close of business in the afternoon . |
| 10 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 11 | They may redouble their efforts to provoke others to contain benignly what is bubbling up inside them or , if that fails , to secure punishment for being so bad . |
| 12 | They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse . |
| 13 | Alternatively they may devise their own format for indicating to students and to moderators the way in which the student has achieved marks for each individual assignment . |
| 14 | If objectives from the higher categories of Bloom 's taxonomy are included , where students are asked to make judgements , to criticise and evaluate ; and if students are given a range of objectives from which they may make their own choices and even , at the later stages of training , are encouraged to write their own , then this will go a long way to meeting this criticism . |
| 15 | With the invitations , it is helpful to give other parents a few ideas as to how they may make their children 's costumes . |
| 16 | Alternatively , as adults they may make their own decision to live an ordinary life and not pursue brilliance . |
| 17 | If the profit margins of manufacturers are too drastically reduced they may move their capital from the industrial to the financial sector ; if the political power of the unions is legislated against they may make their power felt at the economic level by going on strike , or at the political level by withdrawing from established parliamentary parties and so on . |
| 18 | If they apply the law incorrectly they have not performed their duty correctly and judicial review is available to correct their error of law so that they may make their decision upon a proper understanding of the law . |
| 19 | The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages . |
| 20 | The interviewer is concerned not with taking over and controlling the clients ' lives , but with helping them handle problems in order that they may fashion their own lives according to their own values . |
| 21 | She knows that they come to life under her touch , and that they may carry their own life and their creator be forgotten . |
| 22 | Pigs often lie down and chew on nothing ; they may consume their food in ten minutes during the day . |
| 23 | Some people say certain responses in others make them see red and they are guaranteed to be upset , even though for the sake of peace they may repress their anger or hurt . |
| 24 | Now they will be given even more freedom — they may change their characters if they wish to do so . |
| 25 | Once and if they learnt of what was going on in their own backgardens , they may change their views . |
| 26 | Litigants may not argue on its basis before a local judge , but they may take their cases to the European Commission after they have exhausted all locally available remedies . |
| 27 | Few know when they may see their husbands , or what to expect when they walk through the gates . |
| 28 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 29 | Trainees will see that by tackling the practical presenting problem with too much alacrity they may superimpose their interpretation of Sally 's problems before confirming them with Sally . |
| 30 | If people expect prices to rise , they may reduce their money balances and purchase goods and assets now , before prices do rise . |