Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They may appear nice but they 're not and someone you do n't know is a stranger . |
| 4 | New unions have now emerged which we have not faced before we must not dodge these challenges because they may appear difficult or hard and we must be prepared to learn off anybody who has something to show us to close our minds would be a mistake . |
| 5 | The Red Rose and the Rosa Mundi commonly grow from three to four feet high , but seldom exceed that ; but the Damask , Provence and Frankfurt Roses grow to the height of seven or eight feet , so that in planting them , great care should be taken to place their several kinds , according to their various growth , amongst other shrubs , that they may appear beautiful to the eye . |
| 6 | Neither Orcs nor Goblins are particularly technically minded , but they build fast and strong so their devices usually work even though they may appear crude in comparison to human constructions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Arbitrators shall have power by their award to annul and/or amend the decision of the Disciplinary Committee or to do so subject to the performance of any conditions which they may think fit to impose . |
| 11 | They may contrast new information with old information , or put another side to the argument ( or , on the other hand , however , conversely ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They may exchange short term financial gain for longterm strategic disadvantage . |
| 18 | Everything may taste bitter , except water ; They may crave bitter things in a fever . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first part of the puzzle is resolved by recalling that only free neutrons decay ; the ones locked up in atomic nuclei are stable on any timescale comparable with the age of the Universe ( about 15 billion years ) although they may remain stable for ‘ only ’ about 10 years overall . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As we have seen they may involve other types of expert as well . |
| 24 | The precise molecular mechanisms involved remain largely unknown but they may involve lipid bilayers , which form the backbone of cell membranes and dissolve hydrophobic substances . |
| 25 | They may offer contextual detail , embedded observations , depth of understanding ( or inference ! ) at the cost of unrepresentativeness . |
| 26 | … if environmental problems are pursued rigorously enough and with sufficient attention to likely contributions from other disciplines they may foster constructive alterations in public policy but at the same time may stimulate new research and refinement of research methodology to the benefit of geographic discipline . |
| 27 | Section 245 provides that if it appears to the directors that any annual accounts of the company or any directors ' report did not comply with the provisions of the Act they may prepare revised accounts or a revised report . |
| 28 | Churches often remain , either complete , ruined , or only in part ( e.g. tower or chancel ) , and , together with the extent of the graveyard , they may give useful information about a site . |
| 29 | They may give different interpretations of the same piece of lower-level information . |
| 30 | The use of index numbers and special ratios should always be undertaken with care since they may contain hidden dangers if one does not know how they are compiled and , very often , how they are ‘ corrected ’ for a variety of reasons . |