Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are too selective , they may miss the vital factor . |
| 2 | They may alter the predicted times of high or low water by up to one hour , but the effects are much less easy to quantify as winds are very variable and are strongly influenced by the topography of the local area . |
| 3 | Alternatively , they may regard the single warning given by one policeman in the presence of a colleague as issuing from both . |
| 4 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 5 | Alternatively , they may prefer the limited protection provided by keeping each other ( and their own needs ) at arm 's length by replaying the old scenarios . |
| 6 | They they may draw the same compound but making the same structural formula , but drawn slightly differently ! |
| 7 | They may repeat the same step but the ports de bras or épaulement may change at each repeat . |
| 8 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 9 | But they may underestimate the true extent of inequalities , since a large group of children — who at many ages have a particularly poor mortality record — are excluded from the main analyses . |
| 10 | Current educational programmes aimed at all school children on the risks of drug abuse may fail to emphasise the major risks of alcohol and of some prescribed medicines and they may make the false assumptions that : a. drug addiction is simply a product of repeated use of drugs rather than a specific risk of some particular individuals . |
| 11 | They may make the vital difference . |
| 12 | On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic . |
| 13 | Thus they may observe the whole earth and guard their master against SHIVA . |
| 14 | They may send the middle children to Jessy 's parents in an attempt to get the eldest through secondary school . |
| 15 | They may play the same dives as those familiar Falconite grunge gluttons , but old lurch-riff formulas are being uprooted in a bid for a stronger individual identity . |
| 16 | In all cases , except where specifically allowed by the belt manufacturer , solvent based cleaners , alkalis and acids should be avoided as they may denature the belting substance . |
| 17 | For example when foreign documents relating to professional conduct the opinions of experts not sealable on disputes of policy in professional to etiquette to elucidate the rules of a particular profession , English law , morals and probability of human nature and all our opinions of law is that which English law though they may prove the proper costs of particular legal proceedings , neither expert or ordinary witnesses may give their opinions upon matters of legal or moral obligations or general human nature or the manner in which other persons would probably act in the interests and my Lord this director points at the policy it is in fact the authority admits which is Mr Justice then was . |
| 18 | But there may be reasons to think that they may reject the null hypothesis of speculative efficiency even when the latter is in fact true . |
| 19 | Any information available soon after a crash is avariciously pounced upon by both journalists and lawyers , and exploited to the full in order that they may derive the maximum benefit for their own particular ends . |
| 20 | They may despise the lower strata whose members may well find such behaviour offensive . |
| 21 | The Alliance of Small Island States , which includes Cyprus , Malta , the Caribbean islands , Maldives , Seychelles , and many Pacific territories , fear that they may become the first victims of global warming . |
| 22 | Officers are dependent upon their dischargers to do their job efficiently and must always think to the future when they may need the active co-operation of a polluter . |
| 23 | Most originate in the US where they may find the regulatory authorities more amenable than in Europe . |
| 24 | A further risk is that the smaller Fellowships become so , " special and different " that they may lose the wider identification with all sufferers from addictive disease and they may therefore be less exposed to the common humility that is the essential basis for recovery . |
| 25 | They may bend the small tree towards neighbouring tree by climbing out onto side branches of the pole tree ; in other circumstances , the apes swing pole trees back and forth to gain momentum — often initially bending the trees away from their direction of travel , Orang-utans also swing across on vines , first untangling them ; if a suitable vine is already stretched across a gap , a beast may walk across on top , balancing in the manner of a circus tightrope walker . |
| 26 | They may have the same selection but a different gradation . |
| 27 | The first is a moral one , that if chimpanzees are really like man they may have the same capacity to understand what is happening to them and imagine their futures , which would make laboratory studies , especially physiological interventions , unacceptable . |
| 28 | Consequently they ought to owe the same duties as traditional insiders . |
| 29 | The grant was voted more because Charles ended disputes over land titles running over the previous twenty years than because the West Indians believed they ought to support the English Exchequer , but a permanent colonial contribution to the home government was — at least for England — a new and interesting departure , though one that had no sequel . |
| 30 | They must leave the Great Tower via room 69 to passage 24 , and then make their way outdoors . |