Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 2 | Rosemary said yesterday : ‘ They were all adults in that car and any one of them could have stopped that train of events with one word . |
| 3 | They should be er both of them could have put that all in black . |
| 4 | ‘ None of them would have provided any kind of challenge to your tightly guarded female bastion . ’ |
| 5 | The director of the museum , Mr H. Bakker , visibly relieved to have all the originals safely returned to their shelves , told The Art Newspaper that each one of them would have provided enough money to buy a comfortable family home . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 7 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 8 | They may choose to ignore this entirely . |
| 9 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 10 | Study the photograph and suggest why they may want to stop this . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ They are using the computer to gauge who would be suitable to attend certain meetings : they may want to exclude some of them . ’ |
| 14 | they may want to start some day . |
| 15 | Then they may fail to make any choice of field or plan of action until it is too late . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They may wish to test any of a dozen or more hypotheses . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Keep an eye on your cichlids , as they may attempt to do this . |
| 20 | Obviously he was worried lest they may have sustained some damage by coming into contact with my nasty hard ribs . |
| 21 | But his reservations outweigh his praise : ‘ They may have done some good in creating interest in two people who 've made major innovations in twentieth-century music , but they 've also given a negative impression : that the people involved in this music have serious flaws in their personalities . |
| 22 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That they may have obtained some of their supplies of ivory from that quarter is suggested by finds of this material at the intermediate entrepot of Bahrain . |
| 25 | To pay the wages , they may have to realise some of their assets . |
| 26 | Even on ‘ Brad ’ — not the most excitable jockey — they may have recorded some memorable figures . |
| 27 | So they may have planted some more damning ‘ evidence ’ somewhere in my flat . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These may have been used for normal , secular water supply , or they may have had some cult use . |
| 30 | It is a defensible pattern in what might be called ‘ low-theory ’ fields , where people can learn to practise in some way and with some success without any theoretical preparation for what they are doing , although they may have had some relevant training at a lower level . |