Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If cables are being stored on drums , wind them completely off the coil before connecting them to the load ; otherwise they may overheat in use . |
| 2 | At other times they may exist in competition , each endeavouring to gain influence in a third area . |
| 3 | They may exist in conjunction with , or separately from , road-station buildings such as mansiones and mutationes , which may , or may not , have had their own officials . |
| 4 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 5 | The scientist who proposes new interpretations or principles is rather like the fictional detective ( they may exist in reality too ) who is faced with the same evidence as the reader and the police , but sees that it forms a different pattern when seen from the right angle . |
| 6 | They may stay in bed to all hours , slump in front of the television and expect to be waited on hand , foot and finger . |
| 7 | If so , have they costed them , or is it something else that they say that they may do in future if economic growth comes their way ? |
| 8 | The secondary reasons help to meet the burden of proof required to establish a complete justification , i.e. they may suffice in conjunction with the primary reasons in circumstances in which the primary reasons alone will not be enough to establish the legitimacy of an authority . |
| 9 | The rule in Adam v Ward offers consolation to victims of attacks made under the " coward 's cloak " of Parliamentary privilege : they may reply in kind , through newspapers which will only be liable for the defamatory content of their reply if it is irrelevant to the subject-matter of the attack , or if it defames other persons who bear no responsibility for the attack . |
| 10 | They may change in location over time . |
| 11 | Will there not be some children who , though they may succeed in part of a test , or a test in a specific skill , may yet be unable ever to pass the whole of the test at every stage ? |
| 12 | They may sniff in bed , using the bedcovers as a tent to contain the fumes . |
| 13 | Otherwise you would do well to keep your eyes fixed on the grilled fish and chicken , boring as they may seem in comparison . |
| 14 | They may become in turn promoters of the public library service and even serve to bring in financial support for the service — a valuable support group particularly in the USA where public library services are frequently vulnerable to local authority cuts . |
| 15 | Top earners in Latin America may be owners or managers , they may work in foreign or local firms and they may work in state or private enterprises . |
| 16 | Put another way , appropriability problems created by spillovers may affect R activities more than D activities , and they may lessen in importance the closer R&D output gets to a specific product market . |
| 17 | and Jehovah proceeded to go down to see what they see , to see the city and they tell that the sons of man have gods , after that Jehovah said look there are one people and there is one language for the north and this is they start to do , why now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unobtainable for them , come now let us go down and their confuse their language , he 'd be speaking to angels now would n't he |
| 18 | Like a conveyance , in three cases : ( 1 ) When the purchase is by two or more persons , when they must sign in order to commit themselves to the terms on which they hold . |
| 19 | We agree or disagree before we form any concrete opinions about which institutions or officials must act and what they must do in consequence of whatever rights we declare people have . |
| 20 | They reach the end of the pool without difficulty but very slowly for they must march in step with their weaker and shorter fellows . |
| 21 | That was what they must keep in mind ! |
| 22 | What is more , it is able to tell others what direction they must fly in order to get food themselves . |
| 23 | They must be able to show measurable improvements in the quality of their services over the past two years , and customer satisfaction , and they must have in hand or plan to introduce at least one innovative enhancement to their services which entails no additional cost to the taxpayer or consumer . |
| 24 | They must work in tandem as partners in instilling the basic concepts of right and wrong to kids as they grow up . ’ |
| 25 | They must work in tandem as partners in instilling the basic concepts of right and wrong to kids as they grow up . ’ |
| 26 | In contract teaching , students receive a written list of the behaviour they must demonstrates in order to prove that they have mastered a particular unit of study . |
| 27 | In theory they should labour in order to stop being workers as soon as possible , thus entering the bourgeois universe . |
| 28 | This is a figure included to ensure that all three methods yield identical results which , of course , they should do in principle , but which they invariably fail to do in practice because of errors and omissions which arise through imperfect data collection . |
| 29 | I appreciate that the television companies have to get the best shots of the game or we 'd complain about that , but I think they should bear in mind those people who have paid to see the game and , in some cases like mine , travelled a long way to see the match . |
| 30 | If Labour Members wish regularly to employ international statistics on investment , they should bear in mind the fact that during the 1970s the average annual growth rate in business investment in the United Kingdom was 2.3 per cent. , against an average of 3.1 per cent . |