Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | they may want to start some day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then they may fail to make any choice of field or plan of action until it is too late . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As National Health Service hospitals are forced to compete with each other for business they may begin to see other hospitals as competitors . |
| 9 | Through this , they may begin to see violent actions against other people as being good . |
| 10 | Through this , they may begin to see violent actions against other people as being good . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Their spouses may not have been able to save much during their lives ; they may have had low-paid jobs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All of a sudden our theories looked as though they may have had some foundation . |
| 24 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 25 | They may have had some basis in reality because bones of a large primate 3.5 metres tall and weighing 800 pounds , found in caves in southern China , date back to over 300,000 years ago at the time Homo Erectus was still alive . |
| 26 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 27 | They may have had some children . |
| 28 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 29 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
| 30 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |