Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may have become bottom living , crawling hunters for which a gastropod-like shell would have been more appropriate . |
| 2 | The bond between them might help to heal old family conflicts . |
| 3 | Rosemary said yesterday : ‘ They were all adults in that car and any one of them could have stopped that train of events with one word . |
| 4 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 5 | The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 7 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 8 | For instance car manufacturers may offer exceedingly cheap credit , not because they believe their borrowers are uniquely low risk , but because they may want to sell more cars . |
| 9 | For instance car manufacturers may offer exceedingly cheap credit , not because they believe their borrowers are uniquely low risk , but because they may want to sell more cars . |
| 10 | they may want to start some day . |
| 11 | They may begin as mild irritations arising from the compromise of entering an organization and creating dependence , but they may progress to induce high levels of stress . |
| 12 | Then they may fail to make any choice of field or plan of action until it is too late . |
| 13 | Eventually they may grow to like each other , especially if there is some other link they can make with each other such as matching colour . |
| 14 | Discussions were held with consultants and agreements drawn up as to what would be the expected workload for the clinical team and what resources they may require to process that workload . |
| 15 | As National Health Service hospitals are forced to compete with each other for business they may begin to see other hospitals as competitors . |
| 16 | Through this , they may begin to see violent actions against other people as being good . |
| 17 | Through this , they may begin to see violent actions against other people as being good . |
| 18 | The Renton Committee noted that definitions may take various forms : they may be exhaustive ; they may be merely inclusionary ; they may concentrate only the boundaries of the concept ; they may seek to exclude descriptive material and concentrate upon conceptual analysis ; they may rely upon general principles . |
| 19 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 20 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 22 | The ability to learn such social skills may come slowly , but can in most cases be taught so that the child learns to behave in a socially acceptable fashion even though they may have limited academic ability . |
| 23 | They may have received some college training , participated in in-service training provided by government agencies or employers , or received no specific training for their jobs . |
| 24 | To the charge that Victorians sentimentalised the deaths of their children has been added the allegation that they may have inflicted psychological damage by bringing them prematurely into contact with death . |
| 25 | It is recognised however that PC(a) requires pupils to identify a variety of viewpoints on the issue , and therefore they may have to include differing views . |
| 26 | Gerber , South Africa 's record try-scorer with 19 , has touched down four times in as many internationals and his centre partnership with Pieter Muller poses a more difficult challenge to Carling and Jeremy Guscott than they may have envisaged three months ago . |
| 27 | One possible theory about why some people are much more affected than others is that they may have had traumatic experiences of falling as a baby or a young child , and that this has further re-inforced their instinctive behaviour . |
| 28 | Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives ; they may have had low-paid jobs . |
| 29 | by no means all the composers were Protestants ; Senfl , Arnold von Bruck , Mahu , and Hellinck were not , although they may have had secret leanings to Protestantism ; but Rhaw also published Latin church music , while Catholics all over Europe enjoyed vernacular Calvinist psalms . |
| 30 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |