Example sentences of "they [modal v] [be] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’ |
| 2 | Nine of them may be attributed to petitioners . |
| 3 | Quality Control activities can be very costly , and since they represent an overhead cost in the production area , the degree of time and resources spent on them must be related to factors such as price , consistency , safety and legal requirements , for example . |
| 4 | When such changes are induced in the germ cells , they may be transmitted to descendants of the irradiated persons . |
| 5 | Because food chains are simple , minerals absorbed into primary production settle in sediments where , in the absence of decomposers and detritus feeders , they may be lost to circulation . |
| 6 | They may be laid to rest by ringing a bell which has been blessed in church when they are sighted , then burying the bell in one stretch of water and the clapper in another . |
| 7 | If the cost of books is reimbursed by the Department then they must be returned to Sylvia Middlemiss on completion of your course , otherwise the cost will be recovered by the Department . |
| 8 | As people interested in cognitive studies come at least as much from linguistics , philosophy or psychology as from a computer-using subject , they must be introduced to programming . |
| 9 | In Chapter 4 we discuss the relationship between some of these factors , and conclude that the most crucial is the pattern of decisions by the courts : not only about what sentences offenders should receive ( whether they should be sent to custody and , if so , for how long ) , but also decisions about which counts they should be tried in and whether they should be remanded in custody in the meantime . |
| 10 | He tended to regard the conversion of his son Harilal to Islam as something that was prompted by monetary considerations , and in the case of such converts , he maintains that they should be readmitted to Hinduism without hesitation if they so desired and truly repented of their erroneous actions . |
| 11 | These three genera seem to form a natural grouping ( Box 2 ) and in the past they have been confused with one another : in commenting on the original description of the Buluk specimens , Deslon suggested that they should be attributed to Kenyapithecus ( rather than to Sivapithecus , as they then were ) , and in an addendum to their original description of Heliopithecus , Andrews and Martin recognized the affinities of that genus to Afropithecus , which was published just before Heliopithecus . |
| 12 | If they do appear they should be reported to SST immediately : |
| 13 | They 'll be flying to Britain next week . |
| 14 | ‘ So they 'll be coming to Lansdowne Road really fancying their chances . ’ |
| 15 | They 've got two thousand seven hundred pounds in the deposit account , erm , they 'll be applying to Sidmouth town council for a grant , er the reason for the grant , they 've asked for two hundred and fifty , is to sponsor as many cadets as possible to take part in activities at Haven Banks . |
| 16 | They can involve further investigation of a problem or need identified in the placement year , or they might be related to staff research interests . |
| 17 | Cos someone said last night they were going to Tramps but whether that was just like , they might be going to Tramps or what . |
| 18 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 19 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 20 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 21 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |
| 22 | In fact there appears to be no doubt that Stalin simply resented the independence that the Yugoslav leaders were displaying and believed they could be brought to heel as easily as communist leaders in other parts of Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 24 | The case was adjourned so they could be committed to Crown court for trial . |
| 25 | If they were working they 'd be going to discos , but because they ca n't work they stay at home , and because they 're girls they do the housework , though they feel they are doing somebody else 's housework . |
| 26 | This way they would be alerted to Luke 's infidelity , but it would n't be forced on them . |
| 27 | Were England seeded , they would be sent to Calgiari , leaving Belgium to go to Turin . |
| 28 | If they proved successful , they would be despatched to Carno for mass production . |
| 29 | Its chairman , David Murray , wrote to Mr Gillespie saying that instead of handing over the shares on the previously agreed dates , he could keep them until he was 65 in 1991 , when they would be transferred to MIH in one lump . |
| 30 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |