Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are , they may suffer directly because of the disease and its effects , but the welfare is less good if the immune system is not working properly . |
| 2 | Once a person is infected they may recover naturally or they may become a chronic carrier of the virus . |
| 3 | You notice in that quotation that Adams says that they may study so and so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The family should be warned against condoning the patient 's anorexic behaviour , which they may do either because they feel unable to tolerate the patient 's anger or because they themselves gain vicarious gratification from the illness . |
| 6 | Thus although it may be the case that communicative demands result in error because the learner does not have enough time to access second language systemic knowledge , equally they may do so because such demands quite naturally lead learners to call upon whatever resources they have at their disposal , some of which will be drawn from their own language . |
| 7 | I 've got no specific figures or names in mind , but I think there will be a further growth , particularly in the number of people who supply existing credit cards , and that 's important because they may do better and different deals with the retailers over how much they charge for the processing . |
| 8 | Some animals feed on living plants ; even if no animals come at first they may come later if plants begin to grow in the microhabitat . |
| 9 | They may lose both because of missed interest payments and because of the legal fees that have to be paid from the firm 's shrunken assets . |
| 10 | Er and it 's one of these things where thinking about y your average heterosexual bloke they may respond angrily but there 's a suspicion that maybe it 's because they 're feeling rather threatened underneath sort of thing . |
| 11 | They may have more than one |
| 12 | They may happen once or twice a week or several times in an hour . |
| 13 | You referred to the ex-parliamentary stars , President the budding prima donnas well I should , I would suggest that they ought to go away and look at their roots . |
| 14 | At long last , the motor manufacturers are waking up to the reality that they ought to do more and that they too can assist in the reduction of car crime . |
| 15 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 16 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 17 | They must go further and establish that there was , in a legal sense , compulsion by something actually done or threatened , something beyond the implication of duress arising from a demand by persons in authority , which suffices in a true colore officii case . |
| 18 | The size and position of this bolt and hole are as yet undeclared ; the only specification is that they must fit together when drawn , so a hole of the wrong size or in the wrong position will be automatically reported . |
| 19 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 20 | Though margins on top-notch corporate loans have nearly doubled in the American market to about 50 basis points ( hundredths of one percent ) , they must widen further before it is worth lending in the midst of a recession . |
| 21 | They must try again and again for a compromise that is fair and honourable . |
| 22 | I think they must have there and I do n't like huge cut , I like the tiny one you can get . |
| 23 | We must not dismiss the occasional and rare events as wild speculation ; statistically they must occur sooner or later , just as sooner or later that chimpanzee will type Hamlet . |
| 24 | Presidents , on the other hand , can rarely issue plausible , self-executing commands ; for the most part they must persuade rather than order other political actors to do what they want them to do . |
| 25 | They must state immediately that they are here to destroy Chaos and Evil or some direct equivalent ( such as ‘ Hail to Solkan ! ’ ) . |
| 26 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 27 | The most extraordinary factor was RSGB 's advice that they should go ahead and publish — the opposite to what the company had told the Scottish Daily News . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of our members are asking what this means and there are some suggestions that they should go ahead and use the title anyway . ’ |
| 29 | I think if they really want to do it they should go ahead and do it because it 's not going to get any easier . |
| 30 | In the longer term they should go so as to create a real ‘ Europe without frontiers ’ . |