Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French education system has had many of the features now introduced into the British system for more than a century and studying them may shed some light on future possibilities for schooling in this country . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 3 | Although creeks are thought to be largely areas of non-deposition rather than areas of erosion , the scour of the tide along them may cause some lateral erosion and water draining at times of very high tides from areas behind the zone of creeks may plunge into the heads of the creeks and so cause a certain amount of headward erosion . |
| 4 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 5 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 6 | Doubtless one of the reasons for this approach is that Parliament is presumed to have considered the interests of those who will be affected by the undertaking or works and decided that benefits from them should outweigh any necessary adverse side effects . |
| 7 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 8 | The parents were glad of a helping hand so them could have some time to themselves . |
| 9 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 10 | The open and public part of the contest between the two companies for the monopoly of the Indian trade ( apart from the normal process of lobbying , in which it was said very large sums were spent on bribery ) was devoted to finding which of them would lend more money to the government . |
| 11 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 12 | And any fallout from them would affect most of the southern half of England I think , is this true ? |
| 13 | None of them would have any formal local attachment other than to the large constituency as a whole . |
| 14 | But a proposal to re-draw the tax-boundary line between them would win little favour in the rich suburbs . |
| 15 | If it was a question that this vehicle was in that state when the sold it , then I would think that most of them would put that right themselves . |
| 16 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 17 | Only a handful of people know I own this house , and none of them would reveal that information to anyone . ’ |
| 18 | The dog which the eleventh legion would have taken with them would need some herding instinct , be fleet of foot and be powerful enough to guard the herd against wolf or bear . |
| 19 | None of them would trust such men a yard . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A number of software vendors such as Bitstream , Adobe and Microsoft themselves can supply extra fonts but they may cost more than the budget user can afford . |
| 22 | In fact , they may enable some people to play who may not otherwise be able to do so . |
| 23 | They may go several years without a cable break on the winch launching , and so they will scarcely give the possibility any thought . |
| 24 | It 's got nothing to do with national security ; it 's that they may embarrass some dear old buffer who did a lot of damage . |
| 25 | At first , they may intend this as a joke , sometimes giving a false name . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I i if , if , if they 're erm an intuitive feeling person , then they may think that 's okay . |
| 29 | Right so they may think that , you know , they 're gon na be one of the lucky ones , presumably . |
| 30 | They may think this is high-status play because nobody knows what they 're thinking . |