Example sentences of "they may [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
2 | In fact , they may enable some people to play who may not otherwise be able to do so . |
3 | Like the secondary lesions they may mimic other skin conditions and can be found on the surface of the skin , or sometimes as lumps or nodules beneath it . |
4 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
5 | When clinical ecologists see patients with many symptoms , incongruity and inconsistency between their symptoms and clinical signs , and no laboratory evidence of disease they may diagnose environmental illness , food allergy , chronic fatigue syndrome , hypersensitivity to candida , or hypoglycaemia . |
6 | They may encompass whole villages or a small hamlet in which there are just a scattering of modest but pretty cottages and a few barns . |
7 | Unconsciously , they may regard those sort of questions as intrusive or threatening , in that the other person may not say what they wish to hear . |
8 | The rest have been ‘ screened out ’ — denied refugee status — and if they choose not to return to Viet Nam under a ‘ voluntary repatriation program ’ they may face indefinite detention in Hong Kong , or an increasing threat of forcible return to Viet Nam . |
9 | In effect , we will complete each theory by articulating both their criterion of responsibility and their test for the limits of obligations , so that they may face each other as fully prepared contestants for the honour of being liberal theories of contract law . |
10 | Thus all M-H stretching frequencies decrease by several hundreds of cm -1 , and this can be used to confirm the group-frequency assignment of such modes , and also to remove M-H bands from regions where they may hide other bands . |
11 | They may contrast new information with old information , or put another side to the argument ( or , on the other hand , however , conversely ) . |
12 | ‘ Though they may cheat each other , it is not so bad as in the city . ’ |
13 | They may prefer short term bid speculation to long term recovery but if Mr Louis-Dreyfus has his way , they will have to settle for the latter . |
14 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
15 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
16 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
17 | Of course , the electorate may not be fools , and they may pass rough judgements at the polls about which party may govern " better " in the future in the light of past performance and potential promise , but there is little point in our pretending that we can " explain " voting behaviour on the basis of the electoral appeal of party programmes even though this is the way politicians and the media often tend to present the essence of electoral politics and party choice . |
18 | Patients were instructed to administer the enema once daily before retiring to bed and were warned that they may pass dark stools as a result of treatment . |
19 | On other occasions , however , they may reinforce each other . |
20 | They may suffer long delays in reaching hospital and are likely to be treated by junior doctors , says a survey of 15,000 victims , carried out at 33 hospitals . |
21 | Even if they are not inhibited from applying for special treatment they may suffer some loss of self-respect in receiving the service free . |
22 | not apply , any more than it does to all garden plants , There are certainly some , the Mediterranean group for example , which includes oregano , lavender , rosemary and thyme , that grow in this sort of environment , but there are many more which need such conditions as shade , moisture , plenty of food , or deep soil , or they may want varying combinations of these , or any of them combined with their opposites . |
23 | They may exchange short term financial gain for longterm strategic disadvantage . |
24 | Everything may taste bitter , except water ; They may crave bitter things in a fever . |
25 | This consists of small beads ( a litre has an R.R.P. of £13.95 — 21 and 51 also available ) Which must be washed ( when they may generate some heat ) then placed in one of the last sections of the filter . |
26 | They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith . |
27 | Furthermore , they may bear little resemblance to the ideological representations of socialism , strongly marked by teleology , in terms of the end of alienation or the overcoming of antagonistic forms of society . |
28 | Together with the impossibility of effectively excluding people from consuming it , this implies that all individuals consume the same quantity , although they may attach different utility to this consumption if their tastes differ . |
29 | They may construct artificial representations of a fixed reality at any one point of time as a means of handling the continuous flow of social change , but these are simply data for the social scientist and not to be taken at face value . |
30 | As we have seen they may involve other types of expert as well . |