Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 3 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The parents were glad of a helping hand so them could have some time to themselves . |
| 7 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
| 10 | Only a handful of people know I own this house , and none of them would reveal that information to anyone . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | None of them would trust such men a yard . |
| 13 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 14 | In fact , they may enable some people to play who may not otherwise be able to do so . |
| 15 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 16 | Unconsciously , they may regard those sort of questions as intrusive or threatening , in that the other person may not say what they wish to hear . |
| 17 | In effect , we will complete each theory by articulating both their criterion of responsibility and their test for the limits of obligations , so that they may face each other as fully prepared contestants for the honour of being liberal theories of contract law . |
| 18 | ‘ Though they may cheat each other , it is not so bad as in the city . ’ |
| 19 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 20 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 21 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
| 22 | On other occasions , however , they may reinforce each other . |
| 23 | Even if they are not inhibited from applying for special treatment they may suffer some loss of self-respect in receiving the service free . |
| 24 | This consists of small beads ( a litre has an R.R.P. of £13.95 — 21 and 51 also available ) Which must be washed ( when they may generate some heat ) then placed in one of the last sections of the filter . |
| 25 | Furthermore , they may bear little resemblance to the ideological representations of socialism , strongly marked by teleology , in terms of the end of alienation or the overcoming of antagonistic forms of society . |
| 26 | They may hold these views about perception because of views they hold about our nature and the nature of the things we look at . |
| 27 | However , they may give another business a licence , or franchise , to sell that product or use the name , in return for a percentage of the takings ( a royalty ) . |
| 28 | That 's the question being raised by Health and Fitness magazine after speaking to dermatologists who , while admitting they may do less harm than actual sunlight , stress they can cause a lot of harm . |
| 29 | When a number of people have taken that holiday , they may conduct another poll to investigate whether they enjoyed it , and , most important , whether they would repeat it or recommend it to friends . |
| 30 | They may be unresponsive to ministerial suggestions , and they may make this opposition very clear through the local authority associations . |