Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there may be other symptoms over the years , and if you marry and have children they may inherit in various ways . |
| 2 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 3 | They may serve as very essential periods of repose , or provide a contrast in mood . |
| 4 | Intermittent sub-parallel reflections beneath the total depth of the well may indicate further Lower Permian lavas and conglomerates , or they may originate in Carboniferous strata beneath . |
| 5 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |
| 6 | They may speculate about how it may have been used and what it was for , and perhaps begin to consider how old it is , whether it is genuine or a replica . |
| 7 | If there 's any left after members and voucher-clutchers have got theirs , and after season ticket holders have claimed an extra ticket for a guest of their choice , they may go on sale next week . |
| 8 | ‘ Certain courses are generally attended by staff of specific sections but care is taken that all staff know they may go to any course . |
| 9 | If he does not have authority to give the staff financial rewards or the possibility of developing themselves , they may go to their functional managers in order to satisfy their economic and professional ambitions . |
| 10 | to understand this so they may go to their immediate selfish interest rather than their long-term interest . |
| 11 | In delirium they may go into a stupor and even unconsciousness with twitchings sometimes , of one side ; head rolling ; pupils maybe contracted or dilated ; eyes red ; face flushed , red . |
| 12 | If cables are being stored on drums , wind them completely off the coil before connecting them to the load ; otherwise they may overheat in use . |
| 13 | If formed from viscous magma they are normally limited in lateral extent but where composed of basic rocks they may extend for thousands of square kilometres . |
| 14 | When they are not speaking London English , they may choose to " talk black " or " chat Patois " : but this " black " variety , as I shall show below , is focused on Jamaican Creole in particular . |
| 15 | They may speak to Members of Parliament and Ministers on a confidential basis , but it is very unusual to come out in terms of that kind and say that sort of thing . |
| 16 | While they are politically neutral they are not anonymous ; they may speak in public at committee and other meetings , and often acquire public prominence within their locality . |
| 17 | They may appear to be fainting , collapsing and suffering from shock , but in reality they can be none of these things . |
| 18 | They may appear to be sexually aware but they are just not prepared for the physical , emotional or sexual consequences . |
| 19 | Consequently , the man in the Kaduna street who watches an NTV report , hears the same story over the state radio and then reads about it in three or four daily papers receives several interpretations of the same event which are very different from one another — so much so that they may appear to be reports of separate events . |
| 20 | Some degree of shared morality is essential to this minimum of cohesion , and any weakening of moral belief may reduce it below this minimum ; hence we can not bind ourselves not to use the law to safeguard existing moral beliefs , no matter how peripheral they may appear to be . |
| 21 | Winnicott observed that such ‘ transitional objects ’ were important , precisely because they may appear to the infant as not fully part of the external world , and therefore not entirely separate from the child 's own body . |
| 22 | In some cases they may appear to be in conflict . |
| 23 | The incubation period may be up to three months and , like warts , they may appear in crops . |
| 24 | Among the various choices available to electors in different countries are the following : they may vote for one candidate , or a specified number of candidates , or for as many candidates as there are members to be elected ; they may cumulate two votes on one candidate ; they may cast votes on more than one list ; presented with lists on which the parties have arranged the candidates in an order of preference they can change that order . |
| 25 | However , an effective competition policy needs power to control mergers because of the serious damage they may inflict on competition . |
| 26 | Remembering that the elderly often become quite anxious and upset at the prospect of any change or disturbance of their normal routine , however pleasing the end-result promises to be , you will need to take anything they may regard as an ‘ upheaval ’ very slowly . |
| 27 | They may exist in favour of individuals , and in some cases in favour of a limited class , but , with the exception of the public right of fishing in tidal water , they can not exist in favour of the public at large . |
| 28 | At other times they may exist in competition , each endeavouring to gain influence in a third area . |
| 29 | The scientist who proposes new interpretations or principles is rather like the fictional detective ( they may exist in reality too ) who is faced with the same evidence as the reader and the police , but sees that it forms a different pattern when seen from the right angle . |
| 30 | They may exist in conjunction with , or separately from , road-station buildings such as mansiones and mutationes , which may , or may not , have had their own officials . |