Example sentences of "they [modal v] be [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be planned deliberately to give the undergraduate a good general education , for example by sampling or balancing a number of types of knowledge , or they may he planned in terms of an applied , problem focus such as environmental control , or a broad theme such as modern urban society , or in terms of some concept of individual development . |
| 2 | Western economic pressure may be creating mental ill-health in the Third World ; and Western ‘ hi-tech ’ psychiatric methods are so inappropriate in this context that they may be doing little to mend the damage . |
| 3 | As the words of a sentence are being recognised , using their orthographic structure , their sentence context or whatever , then they must be pieced together to reconstruct the underlying meaning of the sentence . |
| 4 | They should be checked regularly to endure that all nuts and bolts are secure , and also inspected for cracks and flaws which can develop at places which are subject to a lot of stress , such as the bottom of attachment posts , the hinge area and where the metal is thinner round nut holes . |
| 5 | If more than one remedy is indicated , in classical homoeopathy it is believed that they should be administered separately to allow the body to process each one individually . |
| 6 | But they could be expected especially to move a religious audience committed to a divine order comprehending all men . |
| 7 | They could be sucked beforehand to reduce the time before explosion , though the imagination sags a bit at conjuring up a frogman sucking aniseed balls underwater alongside explosive charges . |
| 8 | I hoped they 'd be distracted enough to ignore our getaway attempt . |
| 9 | They would be meeting today to consider them . |
| 10 | The controversial nature of Gates 's nomination was highlighted when many of his supporters , most notably Boren , warned him that they would be watching closely to ensure that he did not take retaliatory action against his critics within the CIA . |
| 11 | The government was retaining 40 per cent of the shares in both companies , at least until March 31 , 1993 , when they would be sold either to trade buyers or by means of a further flotation . |
| 12 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 13 | Underlying all actions is the fear that if they show emotion and feelings , they will be led again to submit to an outside control . |
| 14 | As the pattern of industrial life goes on and the health of the nation enables people to live longer , the number of retired people will increase and new , attractive facilities will have to be made for them in Britain , or they will be lured away to live on the continent of Europe and spend their money there . |
| 15 | A further elaboration of this technique is the use by the respondents of computer-linked handsets that can be simply manipulated to show their response throughout the commercial : they can be asked simply to indicate an overall favourable or unfavourable response or to reflect some more specific description of the film — ‘ exciting ’ , ‘ funny ’ , ‘ tasteful ’ , etc . |
| 16 | The ordinary people are interviewed because they are representatives of the group which we are studying , and as such their characteristics , opinions , and so on are only of interest because they can be added together to present the general picture of the group itself . |
| 17 | However , they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed . |
| 18 | They can be used also to compare long- , medium- and short-term programmes , which fundamentally very simple calculation . |
| 19 | Such units can either be used as measures , relative to some fixed point of interest ( including , crucially , the deictic centre ) , or they can be used calendrically to locate events in " absolute " time relative to some absolute origo , or at least to some part of each natural cycle designated as the beginning of that cycle ( Fillmore , 1975 ) . |