Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They must think , one day they may be parents . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 7 | Though they may be artists , craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a trained and deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 8 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 9 | According to this conception , ideas may be internal sensations like pain ; they may be perceptions of external objects and their qualities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They may be remnants of severe tidal encounters or even mergers between normal stars . |
| 12 | They may , for example , all be functions of time , so that we must write A = A(t) ; they may be functions of a parameter , typified by unc when the elements are rational integral functions of{ gl } , the matrix is called a lambda-matrix ; or the elements may themselves ( especially for vectors ) be independent variables . |
| 13 | She may know that her tears will relieve her tension more effectively than shouting back or pretending not to notice , or they may be tears of anger rather than the vulnerability so despised by her colleagues . |
| 14 | These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much . |
| 15 | They may be clues , but the mystery is as insoluble as ever . |
| 16 | They may be justifications such as " stress " or " depression " and indeed these factors do feature very significantly in the lives of sufferers from addictive disease but they are consequences and not causes . |
| 17 | Governors come from very different backgrounds and experience : they may be politicians , parents , teachers , workers in industry , commerce or the community . |
| 18 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 19 | These may be physical things or they may be ideas . |
| 20 | It is a well-established phenomenon that nonwords which sound like actual words ( known as " pseudo-homophones " ) tend to gain slower responses than those which look as if they may be words , but do not sound like any . |
| 21 | They may be neurotics or malingerers or both . |
| 22 | Being LCPs ( Local Collaborative Projects ) , the LXs have been U63 pump-primed by the DES and TA to act in the first instance as venture companies designed so that collaborating partners — they may be translators , interpreters , printers , camera crews , copy- writers , export consultants , marketing advisers , experts in cultural briefings etc , — collectively address a market they could not individually satisfy . |
| 23 | Unless otherwise agreed , the findings of the expert(s) are not binding on the parties : they may be recommendations for the future performance of the contract . |
| 24 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're headin' for the guys who 're doin' all the shootin' up ahead … the ones we hid from in the tunnel back there … they must be friends of his … maybe cops or somethin' … if Angel One did n't want them to find us … ’ |
| 26 | While all women are socialized for domesticity in much the same way — by identifying with their mothers ( and/or other adult women ) as housewives , internalizing the conviction that they must be housewives in their turn — for the working-class woman the linguistic process of role learning is such that ‘ I ’ becomes part of the role . |
| 27 | THEY MUST BE RUSSIANS |
| 28 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 29 | ‘ They must be first-years , look at them . |
| 30 | There is at least this restriction on the properties that count here , that they must be properties whose presence or absence can be registered by the person making the judgement . |