Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may pay a high price for their few years of glory with injury problems in later life and will probably never enjoy the relative prosperity of their first working years again . |
| 2 | If they are too selective , they may miss the vital factor . |
| 3 | They may alter the predicted times of high or low water by up to one hour , but the effects are much less easy to quantify as winds are very variable and are strongly influenced by the topography of the local area . |
| 4 | Alternatively , they may regard the single warning given by one policeman in the presence of a colleague as issuing from both . |
| 5 | Old people are frightened to open their doors because they know they may face a menacing crowd , all demanding sweets or money . |
| 6 | At the same time , some people also said that although they were aware that they may face an early death , they also felt fortunate to have lived as long as they had . |
| 7 | There is even the new risk that undue stress on the ‘ truth ’ of APRs may give people the wrong idea about the actual money cost of their credit , so that if , for example , they compare six-month credit with two-year credit they may think the shorter loan five times as costly — in comparison with the longer one — as it really is . |
| 8 | As long-term bond prices are far more volatile than short-term ones , they may prefer the latter . |
| 9 | Alternatively , they may prefer the limited protection provided by keeping each other ( and their own needs ) at arm 's length by replaying the old scenarios . |
| 10 | They they may draw the same compound but making the same structural formula , but drawn slightly differently ! |
| 11 | They may repeat the same step but the ports de bras or épaulement may change at each repeat . |
| 12 | Dysentery like diarrhoea with awful tenesmus ; they may pass a little blood or green slime . |
| 13 | Firstly they may reinforce a macho , non-caring image for boys . |
| 14 | They may talk an alien language of picas and points , separations and screens but they have accumulated the knowledge of several centuries . |
| 15 | GOVERNMENT health watchdogs are to carry out a survey of women working in computer microchip factories amid fears they may suffer a higher risk of miscarriage . |
| 16 | Alternatively they may effect a leveraged buy-out of a number of businesses with a view to later reconstruction to realise " hidden " reserves which will effectively finance the acquisition of the core business they wish to retain , and enable the borrowings to be redeemed . |
| 17 | The actual heights of the nick points are of little significance , because during their recession up various streams they may reach a wide variety of altitudes . |
| 18 | In fact they may bear an added burden of guilt . |
| 19 | Johnny , Ponyboy 's best friend , hopes his parents will stop arguing and fighting , so that they may lead a normal life together . |
| 20 | Lord , we know that you guide the ways of all your servants , but we want especially to commend these people to you , that they may experience a special measure of your support and may know that the Holy Spirit is building the unity of the church in the places to which you have called them . |
| 21 | The costs involved in civil litigation are of the utmost importance to the parties — they may prevent an action ever being brought , they may render a victory in court Pyrrhic when damages are swallowed up in costs , they may prevent a meritorious appeal and they will always be a factor in the risk of litigation . |
| 22 | Such a reformulated qualified defence would not encompass cases of excessive self-defence , since they may involve a genuine and unhurried misjudgment of the amount of force permissible , and so they would have to be the subject of a separate qualified defence . |
| 23 | Here at home there are denominations which , while they may boast a doctrinal comprehensiveness , manifest a cultural exclusiveness . |
| 24 | They may hold a current account with you . |
| 25 | Detectives believe they may hold a vital clue to the killer . |
| 26 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 27 | However , while charities can benefit from cards sold by stationers , they may retain a substantial amount of money . |
| 28 | So be able to produce er a press release of some description , or some information , that is reasonably literate , then , and it 's reasonable pertinent to the area that they 're th associated with , then they may lift a good deal of it , perhaps not all of it , and plop it into the newspaper . |
| 29 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 30 | They may do a few they 're not going to cut there , they will cut . |