Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either of them may have seen the killer . |
| 2 | WHEN military dictators fall , the democrats who follow them must try to restore the rule of law , as well as rule by the majority . |
| 3 | Earlier , and none of them might have survived the ritual of the tunnel of terror … |
| 4 | Neglecting of clones producing these links is the simpliest way of resolving the corresponding forks , although a more careful analysis of hybridization data for such probe pairs and clones linking them could help to reduce the level of noise . |
| 5 | Their total vote of 1,510 was 600 votes short of Conaty ( Independent ) with 2134 , and no amount of vote transfer between them could have postponed the elimination of any of them until after Conaty . |
| 6 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 7 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
| 8 | Either of them would have grabbed the hand . |
| 9 | have there been , to its knowledge , rights exercisable by or on behalf of two or more limited undertakings which if exercisable by one of them would have made the company a subsidiary of it , nor |
| 10 | Nobody thought trade could be carried on in India without a network of factories and fortifications , which meant that there would have to be a company with a charter to run them — the idea that the government might provide them would have struck the merchants as inappropriate and would have alarmed the politicians who would have had to impose taxes to pay for them . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 12 | He did n't know their long-term histories , but each one of them would have had the break far back , hooked into it , started climbing . |
| 13 | Changing out of them would risk destroying the brand image they 've developed over 20 years . |
| 14 | … the grains of dust which the Australian detaches from the sacred rock are so many sacred principles which he scatters into space , so that they may go to animate the totemic species and assure its renewal . |
| 15 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 16 | Thus they may prefer to skip the next two chapters which are more theoretical . |
| 17 | They may want to leave the hassle of day-to-day practice , but even so , retain their skills and find it difficult to close the book on a lifetime in the profession they love . |
| 18 | Having said that , if you do have top-quality black and white photographs , then include one with the press releases to the national newspapers ; they may want to carry the story but have no time to find a photograph themselves . |
| 19 | They may want to control the media capable of reaching large sections of the population , yet at the same time be suspicious of the power these media possess : power which is ultimately beyond their control . |
| 20 | A possible disadvantage is that , since such offences may lack the stigma of the word ‘ manslaughter ’ , they may tend to underplay the gravity of the behaviour involved . |
| 21 | Sometimes they may spread to involve the anus and perianal skin . |
| 22 | Sometimes they may spread to involve the terminal urethra , and can only be seen if the urethral meatus is parted . |
| 23 | Management may wish to acquire the assets and business or they may wish to buy the shares of Target . |
| 24 | They may live to regret the brave words . |
| 25 | For straight bonds , they may try to offer the most attractive swaps , low spreads over domestic bonds , low commissions ( including underwriting fees ) and primary and secondary market support . |
| 26 | So long as assets remain available they will have caused the company to borrow on mortgage , but when the company 's credit is exhausted they may attempt to keep the company afloat by themselves making unsecured loans to it . |
| 27 | It is helpful for them to recognize that if they intend to carry through what they say , they may need to reduce the number of demands that they make on the child . |
| 28 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 29 | Metaponto , bordered by golden sandy beaches , is such an ancient town where , according to legend , they may have built the famed and historic Trojan Horse . |
| 30 | Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations . |