Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red stockings and garters are stored away but you never know — they may soon be out again for another airing . |
| 2 | They may even be right — if you choose to call subjecting horses to unnecessary risk of mortal injury ‘ heroic . ’ |
| 3 | They may well be as overjoyed as all the erstwhile opponents in high places who brought such pressure to bear on the republic while apartheid existed . |
| 4 | They may be smaller ; they may just be nearer the ground . |
| 5 | Grammatical constraints may overlap and reinforce semantic ones , but they may also be semantically arbitrary . |
| 6 | Their problems are manifold : besides the obvious troubles of handling and riding such horses , they may also be more difficult to breed or be prone to suffer from minor or even major illnesses . |
| 7 | Ads work in several different ways : these may be more or less intellectual or emotional : they may also be more or less conscious . |
| 8 | The usual course for mononuclear cells after extravasation is in fact to lose functional capacity ; resident macrophages in normal tissues are therefore in some aspects less differentiated than monocytes , but they may nevertheless be more active in other instances . |
| 9 | In addition Mr Patient is very likely to have had one or two close friends , probably from some ti me back in his life history , who may be dramatically affected by his death , even though they may not be visibly there close by or apparently very emotionally involved . |
| 10 | They may not be unduly apprehensive about climate change , but they know about the greenhouse effect and how the state of the world and their own localities impinges on their lives . |
| 11 | Currently , all FIMBRA members are able to offer pensions advice , even though they may not be properly qualified in what is acknowledged to be a highly complex area . |
| 12 | Because of their workload , they may not be immediately available but they all have telephone answering machines and will return all calls . |
| 13 | They may not be deliberately malicious , just children looking for a little adventure , but soon windows are smashed and the doors forced open . |
| 14 | This means that although credit cards are probably still the cheapest way to pay bills abroad , they may not be quite such good value as they used to be . |
| 15 | In other words , we have another instance where common surface patterns are followed even when they may not be quite appropriate to the intensional structure ( see Section 8.7 ; and Ferris , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | They may not be much good for space travel , but their presence means that we will be able to predict less than we expected , even if we do find a complete unified theory . |
| 17 | They may not be directly concerned with whatever you want to know about , but they will often put it before your very eyes . |
| 18 | Pleasure also becomes the element which protects the poet from the action of the powerful against a message they may not be fully in agreement with . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , if they have little interest in power they may not be very good managers . |
| 20 | In addition to their normal teaching duties , many college teachers will teach evening-class students , which means they may not be back at college until late the following day . |
| 21 | ‘ People will want to do things in different ways , they will want to run trains at different times , they will want to act competitively , they may want to run a bus service at the end of the train service so they may not be too interested in timetabling together . ’ |
| 22 | They may not be too sure about the opposition , but Swindon 's African imports have their sights set firmyly on their goal . |
| 23 | However , she concedes that there will probably always be people who choose to work outside the mainstream , though they may not be formally organised or funded in the future . |
| 24 | Our four English mystics may lack the imaginative and mythical depths of the great Kabbalists and Sufis , they may not be as daring and extreme as Eckhart and they certainly do not have the lyrical passion of the sixteenth century Spanish mystics St Teresa of Avila ( 1515–82 ) and St John of the Cross ( 1542–91 ) , but they bear witness to the profundity and intelligence of the new English spirituality of their day . |
| 25 | They may not be as healthy as the makers would like you to think . |
| 26 | Secondly , while some theories may work for concrete subjects , they may not be as applicable to abstract concepts , such as ’ justice ’ , ’ insurance ’ or ’ business ’ . |
| 27 | Both terms may be outmoded by now , but I think that in view of what I have already said about gender confusion and gender avoidance in my own case , they may not be entirely unhelpful . |
| 28 | It is important to understand that parents do not lose the parental responsibility they have for their child when a care order is made although they may not be entirely free to exercise it as they wish . |
| 29 | They may not be so for much longer . |
| 30 | This time they may not be so lucky . |