Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may involve social policies ; others may involve environmental policies on which we shall have to give ground during the next 10 , 15 or 20 years . |
| 2 | The three quarks inside a proton normally do not have enough energy to change into antielectrons , but very occasionally one of them may acquire sufficient energy to make the transition because the uncertainty principle means that the energy of the quarks inside the proton can not be fixed exactly . |
| 3 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 4 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 5 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take-over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . |
| 7 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 8 | She 'll want at least another three watch-keepers , and preferably two of them must understand celestial navigation . |
| 9 | SUBTERFUGE Newspapers and journalists serving them should use straightforward means to obtain information or pictures . |
| 10 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 11 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 12 | People with whom one has had personal or professional differences — a row or a clash of principle — are best avoided ( albeit sometimes with real regret ) because meeting them might demand emotional resources that are n't there , open old wounds , or challenge one 's public certainties that in fact feel all too precarious . |
| 13 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 14 | The Dreadnought trams , with their double staircases , were ideal for this — as seen here — and four of them could move 360 people at a time ! |
| 15 | The parents were glad of a helping hand so them could have some time to themselves . |
| 16 | Arranging the carbon atoms in a ring satisfied the laws of valency , since each of them could share two bonds with one of its neighbour , leaving another one to attach to the hydrogen atoms arranged around the outside . |
| 17 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 18 | Some of them used to wear normal clothes if they were going home afterwards , some would come in uniform but without their keys . |
| 19 | Darlington Ramblers spokesman Alan Hutchinson , who accused the committee of favouring landowners in rights of way issues , said the suggested change at Cleatlam which would skirt fields rather than cross them would offer inferior views and be longer . |
| 20 | Darlington Ramblers spokesman Alan Hutchinson , who has accused the committee of favouring landowners in contentious rights of way issues , said the suggested change at Cleatlam skirting the fields rather than crossing them would offer inferior views and be longer . |
| 21 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
| 22 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 23 | Criminalising them would cover trivial matters , such as neighbours quarrelling over a lawnmower . |
| 24 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 25 | So I mean , maybe they need a course in theory all the more for that reason , I do n't know , I think a lot of them would have real problems with it . |
| 26 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
| 27 | Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone . |
| 28 | Only a handful of people know I own this house , and none of them would reveal that information to anyone . ’ |
| 29 | A preliminary assessment suggests that perhaps three quarters of these specimen clauses would be caught , but that the remainder of them would need specific implementation . |
| 30 | The dog which the eleventh legion would have taken with them would need some herding instinct , be fleet of foot and be powerful enough to guard the herd against wolf or bear . |