Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them may involve social policies ; others may involve environmental policies on which we shall have to give ground during the next 10 , 15 or 20 years . |
| 2 | The three quarks inside a proton normally do not have enough energy to change into antielectrons , but very occasionally one of them may acquire sufficient energy to make the transition because the uncertainty principle means that the energy of the quarks inside the proton can not be fixed exactly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Indeed , one of them may get more information out of it than the author realised he was putting into it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hyphenating them may overcome this problem . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that neither the Model Code nor the Take-over Code have the force of law , they do represent important statements of commercial morality and at times breach of them may have legal consequences . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She 'll want at least another three watch-keepers , and preferably two of them must understand celestial navigation . |
| 10 | SUBTERFUGE Newspapers and journalists serving them should use straightforward means to obtain information or pictures . |
| 11 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 12 | Applicants who consider that this exception may apply to them should seek detailed advice by writing to the Registry . |
| 13 | Police are warning that the chemicals are highly toxic and anyone who comes into contact with them should seek urgent medical attention . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People with whom one has had personal or professional differences — a row or a clash of principle — are best avoided ( albeit sometimes with real regret ) because meeting them might demand emotional resources that are n't there , open old wounds , or challenge one 's public certainties that in fact feel all too precarious . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The different aspects of the Christian faith can be distinguished for the sake of clarity but they can not be separated in the life of the Christian community as if any one of them could exist alone or have priority over the others |
| 18 | The Dreadnought trams , with their double staircases , were ideal for this — as seen here — and four of them could move 360 people at a time ! |
| 19 | The parents were glad of a helping hand so them could have some time to themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ Some of them could prove dangerous and , if taken in combination , could prove lethal . |
| 21 | Arranging the carbon atoms in a ring satisfied the laws of valency , since each of them could share two bonds with one of its neighbour , leaving another one to attach to the hydrogen atoms arranged around the outside . |
| 22 | In fact , a lot of them could see little point in the movie at all . |
| 23 | If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature . |
| 24 | Darlington Ramblers spokesman Alan Hutchinson , who accused the committee of favouring landowners in rights of way issues , said the suggested change at Cleatlam which would skirt fields rather than cross them would offer inferior views and be longer . |
| 25 | Darlington Ramblers spokesman Alan Hutchinson , who has accused the committee of favouring landowners in contentious rights of way issues , said the suggested change at Cleatlam skirting the fields rather than crossing them would offer inferior views and be longer . |
| 26 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Whatever they get up to is their own business , but I wish more of them would stay open . |
| 29 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 30 | Criminalising them would cover trivial matters , such as neighbours quarrelling over a lawnmower . |