Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 As these fish are mostly open spawners , it is pointless supplying numerous caves made of rockpiles as they may be moved during the fish 's excavations .
2 They may be moved from this pit to others during the wriggler stage , or once they are free-swimming , and the parents will go for a further 6–8 weeks before considering another family .
3 By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers .
4 They may be moved by a sense of party loyalty .
5 They may be detected with computed tonography and duplex sonography , but selective angiography is still the diagnostic examination of choice .
6 They may be hampered in the efficient winding up of your affairs by the limited powers Parliament gives to the next of kin in these circumstances .
7 Understandably , governments have difficulty reconciling their macro-policies towards foreigners with the need for discriminatory policies among sectors , and still more with the specific bargains they may be tempted to make with particular firms .
8 Even though the offer may be a fair one , they may be tempted to retain their shares in the hope that the target 's performance will improve and they will recover their position .
9 They may be stored in bins or sacks , loose on the floor , or in silos .
10 Therefore , in any year , they may be expensed ( when they have generated revenues ) or they may be stored in the balance sheet ( for example , as closing stock , when they have yet to generate revenues ) .
11 Now members of LA 's rock ‘ aristocracy ’ , they may be viewed in some quarters as an anachronism but no-one could deny that they can still draw the big crowds in a way that would make many a ‘ hip ’ band envious .
12 In the spring young shoots will be damaged by such frosts and , if the frosts are severe or prolonged , they may be killed .
13 Consumers may be poisoned in their beds by improperly tested medical drugs , they may be killed over their dinner tables by unhygienically prepared food , they may be blown up to God knows where by the neighbourhood chemical complex exploding , and they may become fatally diseased in their living rooms by industrial pollution .
14 That animals should be treated humanely , and with this proviso , that they may be killed , experimented upon , hunted , raced , or petted is both the legal , and a perfectly defensible , position to hold .
15 If they are caught in its blast , they may be killed or injured . ’
16 They may be aroused sexually by the naked bodies they wash and care for .
17 For example they may be asked to prepare a training session on how to deal with difficult clients or one on housing benefits .
18 Solicitors may be present during the suspect 's interview but the Code says that they may be asked to leave if their conduct prevents the investigating officer properly questioning the suspect .
19 If there are two student members on the bench they may be asked to deliver their judgments before the senior member .
20 They may be asked , for example , to draft and help negotiate important commercial contracts of all kinds .
21 They may be asked to react to the implications of the forecast and the means to be employed by the enterprise to achieve it .
22 And they may be asked to play the role of " devil 's advocate " , preventing forecasters and marketers a like from becoming complacent and insular , losing sight of the continuous impact of the external environment on the business .
23 To this end , we recently circulated a questionnaire to all appropriate staff to identify specialisms and areas in which they may be asked to answer enquiries .
24 ‘ If a hotel is trying to land a major conference , they may be asked if they have BS 5750 accreditation .
25 They may be asked to change role , and be a colleague of the officer informing her husband and family what has happened .
26 If you pruned them back by one-third of their height before moving them into their winter quarters , then they may be cut back once more by an equal amount .
27 Many can be reached only by walking , for several days along precarious footpaths and they may be cut off half the year by snow .
28 Since they may be determined in a way favourable to the defendant , there is no need to decide any other complaints he might have about the conduct of his trial .
29 While the Z-parameters relevant to low-frequency operation may be obtained from static characteristics , they may be determined at any frequency by measuring certain small signals of the network under suitable open-circuit conditions .
30 Under RSC Ord 3 , r3 they may be served during the Long Vacation including the month of August .
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