Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [noun] " 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 | After five years , they may be housegroup leaders and very busy with their Christian responsibilities . |
| 3 | They may exist in their own right or they may be illustrations in a book . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They must think , one day they may be parents . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Clothes and personal effects may only be seized if the custody officer : ( a ) believes that the person from whom they are seized may use them : ( i ) to cause physical injury to himself or another ; ( ii ) to damage property ; ( iii ) to interfere with evidence ; ( iv ) to assist him to escape ; or ( b ) has reasonable grounds for believing that they may be evidence relating to an offence . |
| 8 | But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole . |
| 9 | Though they may be artists , craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a trained and deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 10 | Though they may be artists or craftsmen or poets in times of peace , every Elf is a deadly fighter in times of war . |
| 11 | According to this conception , ideas may be internal sensations like pain ; they may be perceptions of external objects and their qualities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They may be school leavers , graduates , people made redundant or returning to the job market after raising a family . |
| 14 | Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) . |
| 15 | Other addictive relationships such as some sexual practices may be branded by society as being definitely abnormal or even criminal , yet there is evidence that they may be part of the broad spectrum of addictive disease and therefore outside the personal control of the individual sufferer . |
| 16 | This is particularly true of regulations in heavily regulated fields such as agriculture , where they may be part of a long string of related measures or be limited to implementing a regulation of broader scope . |
| 17 | The receptor for TGLP-1 in the rat gastric mucosa seems to be different from that for glucagon-29 , but they may be part of a closely related family . |
| 18 | They may be remnants of severe tidal encounters or even mergers between normal stars . |
| 19 | He is convinced the necessary seven member states whichever they may be can still meet the criteria for economic convergence which has been set as the minimum to permit a single currency in a majority of member states . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But almonds , while they may be California 's forte and Renshaw 's prime product , are hardly the most difficult of nuts . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These could all be due to a number of different factors but they may be signs that someone is drinking too much . |
| 24 | They may be hand held , for which they are the most effective tool for cleaning glass windows and large mirrors , or stail fixed for clearing water from floors . |
| 25 | Pray that they may be people who rely on God 's healing and allow him to set them back on the track of feeding the lambs . |
| 26 | They may be co-accused who have never been tried and are entitled to the presumption of innocence , or they may be people against whom the defendant has a grudge of any nature . |
| 27 | They may be clues , but the mystery is as insoluble as ever . |
| 28 | Well , they , they may be quality builders , Mr Chairman , but I 'm not sure that it happen , has any relevance to this discussion , we 're talking about a planning application . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Governors come from very different backgrounds and experience : they may be politicians , parents , teachers , workers in industry , commerce or the community . |