Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 2 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 3 | At the highest level of society there were the names given to the great tenants-in-chief who held their estates directly of the Conqueror , and it must be remembered that if these magnates were already powerful in their own country they may even have brought locative bynames with them , as was the case of William de Moyon already mentioned . |
| 4 | Yes , yes , erm , he said they may well have done sufficient of them by Monday . |
| 5 | They may well have to take detailed briefings and relay them to the creative department , so memory and an articulate mind are essential . |
| 6 | They may well have had sexual intercourse regularly before the act in question and , because a sexual relationship may involve a degree of compromise , she may sometimes have agreed only with some reluctance to such intercourse . |
| 7 | They may also aim to produce satisfactory levels of profit to keep shareholders happy and grant over-generous wage rises to avoid labour conflicts . |
| 8 | They may also wish to use this paper to invite discussion and reflection among themselves and those with whom they work at local level . |
| 9 | ( They may also have generated some demands by spreading the word about regimes and rules in the Northern Ireland prison system , which are in several respects more liberal than in England . ) |
| 10 | A much higher proportion of Bristol women had been treated with mastectomy , suggesting that they may also have had more extensive , but undetected , disease than was recorded . |
| 11 | It is nevertheless likely that more middle class women accepted than resisted the experts ' view of their physiology and psychology , though they may also have passed those views through their own filter . |
| 12 | First , they may simply have forced collusive agreements underground . |
| 13 | They may not have become skilled in using aids to vision such as magnifiers or telescopic aids , or the material that they need to read may be finely or densely printed , visually complex , or difficult to decipher . |
| 14 | They may never have heard one of her records , but when Joe Longthorne , or any of those impressionists who have made a career perfecting the quiver of her lip , does his Shirley Bassey everyone knows who he means . |
| 15 | They may often have to forego social evenings and holidays . |
| 16 | And there were fears too that even if the armchair fans fork out the £250 for a satellite dish they may then have to pay extra to enjoy the privilege of watching the best games live . |
| 17 | They must also want to please each other and help each other to find fulfilment , as well as looking for personal satisfaction . |
| 18 | Patients , particularly women who are conditioned from childhood to be accepting rather than questioning , are given the sense that they must n't try to invade medical territory . |
| 19 | As long as you have solicitors who can be admitted to the Personal Injury Panel or who can apply to take a Legal Aid Board franchise , there is no reason why they should not have experienced legal executives working under their control . |
| 20 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 21 | Although subjects gave the risk rating immediately on hearing the tone it was stressed that their safety should be the main consideration , thus they should not attempt to perform any judgment task until they felt comfortable with the driving situation . |
| 22 | The circular also stated that planning authorities should not attempt to compel developers to adopt designs which were unpopular with customers or clients ‘ and they should n't attempt to control such details as shapes of windows or doors or the colour of bricks ’ . |
| 23 | Now , I know that these people have worked all their life to get their money and their saving savings and things like that , but if they 're able to manage on wha with less benefit from the government , surely they should n't have to watch other people who struggling and in dire needs because of that ? |
| 24 | They should n't have had those talks because things are far from settled . |
| 25 | I find it breathtaking after the Group 4 fiasco they should even consider privatising those things which have a security content . |
| 26 | Finally , a number of local authorities without polytechnics or much in the way of advanced further education provision have considered it unfair that they should nevertheless have to pay sizeable sums of money into the pool . |
| 27 | Instead we get polyester and cotton in colour combinations that induce such a bad trip they 'll soon start prescribing intravenous Ketamine as an antidote . |
| 28 | Erm they 'll just have to sort that mess out . . |
| 29 | Erm , they 'll just have to make sure that they cover everything up and then they do n't go stale , not just left open |
| 30 | But they 'll also have to replace some of the exterior stonework , badly weathered by hundreds of years of wind , rain and frost . |