Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handling and using them may give a sense of the past . |
| 2 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 3 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 4 | People who carry weapons into bank premises and threaten to use them must receive a severe sentence . ’ |
| 5 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 6 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 7 | Daisy had once said that the three of them might spend a holiday together next year in San Gimignano . |
| 8 | We , however , are required to crouch in the heather , and so the attention is drawn through necessity to the things sharing that heather with you , in case any of them might take a fancy to your bottom and jump into your pants . |
| 9 | They were known as ‘ bee grenades ’ , and just one of them could disperse a big group of enemies , who would flee leaving their modern weapons behind . |
| 10 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 11 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 12 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 13 | Not only were the chronologically old ( i.e. those over 60/65 ) capable of remaining within the community until biological old age was reached , but even then , given appropriate community support , many of them could enjoy a full personal and community life . |
| 14 | ( 67 ) I should like to see them dare say a word against me . |
| 15 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 16 | If the business is subsequently hived up to Newco at less than both cost and market value , this will depress the value of Target 's shares , so that a subsequent disposal of them would realise a loss . |
| 17 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 18 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 19 | They present both a problem and a challenge ; for any theory which overcame them would vindicate a form of holistic social explanation of a power hitherto unaccepted . |
| 20 | He said this was the worst moment of his life , and the various carpetings he received ultimately had their effect ; years later the memory of them would have a deep effect on his attitude to captaincy . |
| 21 | But most of them would have a neck that was quite high ; modesty was getting to be a really important factor , so we 're covered from head to toe . |
| 22 | Initially the males with slightly longer than average tails might have been fitter than average ; females who preferred to mate with them would have an advantage because they would produce better sons . |
| 23 | It would not matter that the consequence of so holding might be that the defendants , if they should lose the action , would satisfy the European Court of Human Rights that any verdict against them would constitute a breach of article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms . |
| 24 | The conventions are so rigorous that any break with them would require a new genre ; the editorial leaflet makes this clear enough : |
| 25 | The meetings were considered successful , and doubtless those who came to take part in them would get a double benefit from the fine air and the healthful scenes around that beautifully situated city . |
| 26 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 27 | The distance between them would indicate a gate with at least two portals . |
| 28 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They may choose a paper for its coverage of sports and scandals and then be subjected to its coverage of politics . |