Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the following four sections we shall examine five different habits used by animals to avoid being eaten : potential prey may actively flee their predators , or they may stay still and try to be invisible , or they may stuff themselves with sickening chemicals and advertise their unpalatability with bright ‘ warning colours ’ , or they may mimic the warning colours of others , and finally , in some circumstances , an animal may make itself less likely to be eaten by living in a group . |
| 2 | Their responses included : They may expect it of us . |
| 3 | So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state . |
| 4 | whatever and maybe if it 's a good correspondence course they may refer you to the actual you know things you should have er read and so on |
| 5 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 6 | Many children do n't look forward to a visit to the doctor 's — not surprising , as they may associate it with illness or injections . |
| 7 | Your employer has no legal or even moral obligation to house you , although they may advise you on what is available locally in the public and private sector . |
| 8 | But I 'm afraid they may accuse me of lying . ’ |
| 9 | They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags ! |
| 10 | They may do it with the help of the symbols of the church , or the language of the Bible in the orthodox way . |
| 11 | Mail-order firms invariably have an arrangement whereby , if customers are not satisfied with the goods received , they may return them at the firm 's expense without any questions being raised . |
| 12 | They may threaten us in order to control us . |
| 13 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 14 | If you are using special fonts do check with the bureau first , they may provide you with a copy of their screen font to install on your system as a way of ensuring that what you send them matches what they send you back . |
| 15 | Made by several Persian , Indian and Pakistani workshops , they may feature anything from copies of famous Western paintings to reproductions of dollar bills . |
| 16 | The latest word from Malawi is that they may see him after Kamuzu Day , a possible flashpoint , this Thursday . |
| 17 | This chapter looks at the uses they may put it to . |
| 18 | Say no to sweets in the privacy of your kitchen and they may accept it with scarcely a murmur . |
| 19 | They may call you for product details or information about the company which makes the product . |
| 20 | If they want to say ‘ yes ? ’ or ‘ no ? ’ in a questioning manner they may say it with a rising tone — a movement from a lower pitch to a higher one . |
| 21 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 22 | They 'll be underground all day without stopping to eat and they may find nothing at all . |
| 23 | First-time buyers — especially in the South-east — frequently borrow to the very limit of their capacity to repay , and if there is a change for the worse in their circumstances , or if interest rates rise steeply , then they may find themselves in great difficulty . |
| 24 | And on the other side , subordinate groups have no other recourse than armed revolt if they are deprived of other means of exercising political rights ; or they may find themselves in a situation where their formal rights can only be made effective in practice by the use or threat of violence . |
| 25 | Since migrants and alien communities obliged to leave en masse usually return to their countries of origin , they are not usually technically refugees ; nevertheless they may find themselves in refugee-like situations . |
| 26 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 27 | Every family with a young man knows they may lose him to the war , and they are as furious about it as a swarm of bees . |
| 28 | Whilst certainly they may receive something in return , there does not seem to be a pressure to balance out the gifts . |
| 29 | ‘ They may have something on file . ’ |
| 30 | The new directions to be taken may not be indicated by the diagram , or be unclassifiable by present terminology anyway — but they may have something in common with what is gathered here : ambition and invention , perseverance , independence , wit . |