Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So people have been forced to look at the way in which they are doing the work in er conjunction with er the manual for whatever other book of rules they have I wished they 'd do they carry out their work . |
| 2 | The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they 'd be fully operational immediately . |
| 3 | If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’ |
| 4 | Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas . |
| 5 | The greater part of the debate on part-time day continuation schools centred around what it was claimed they could achieve . |
| 6 | If comparisons are included they may be with an artist whose work is considered by the author to be inferior to the subject of the monograph . |
| 7 | Although there are several reasons why passive sentences can be useful for the writer , then , it is worth noticing that if passives are overused they can produce writing that is unappealingly arid . |
| 8 | How come they ca n't get the right one ? |
| 9 | One old lady from Wiltshire told me if the Germans had come they 'd have killed off old people like her . |
| 10 | How come they can take time off yet you ca n't ? |
| 11 | Then if enough information is amassed they can be sacked without the union going on strike . |
| 12 | In rural areas it might be that people will tell the parents of youths whom they see committing some offence ; and although crimes may be committed they will often be dealt with informally and so will not figure in the criminal statistics . |
| 13 | Furthermore W. 's foster parents indicated at about this time that if W. were discharged they could not continue to offer her a home . |
| 14 | Now he says that someone who does n't hold much property can prove that they 're educated they should get the extra votes too , but you do n't seem , you do n't have to prove that you 're er educated if you 're rich you just get the votes anyway because that 's a good . |
| 15 | When approached they may stay absolutely motionless and allow themselves to be picked up . |
| 16 | VOTERS in the Middlesbrough Borough Council area have been reminded they may not necessarily be voting in the Middlesbrough constituency tomorrow . |
| 17 | The attacks on the Copts brought , as Owen had expected they would , bitter representations from the Coptic community . |
| 18 | It is expected they will draft in one or two guests tomorrow . |
| 19 | Not all agreements demand specific actions but when these are expected they should be summarized during the bargaining process and recorded in detail . |
| 20 | Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands . |
| 21 | Women participate in the national liberation struggle and have never considered they should be struggling to liberate themselves from men . |
| 22 | The fact that ECGD may have instructed them should not be taken as an endorsement of their expertise , official or otherwise . |
| 23 | That is still the government 's public view , but it is understood that privately ministers have conceded they may have to change the law in three or four years . |
| 24 | Wherever facts are presented they should be discoverable by the student . |
| 25 | You used to go in the fields and turn it and when it had been turned they used to start leading . |
| 26 | If those recommendations were sensitively applied they would greatly enhance the prospects and ability of disabled people to enjoy the benefits of public transport by travelling wherever bus routes may take them . |
| 27 | Secondly , if they had attended they would have learned that the proposed £7,000 was the minimum amount we would attempt to collect . |
| 28 | If the bigger societies feel their savings are threatened they would raise their mortgage rates to compete . |
| 29 | He says they should n't carry much money and if they are threatened they should never resist . |
| 30 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |