Example sentences of "[that] they [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply . |
| 2 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 3 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 4 | Only six stated that they would offer a translation of the documents . |
| 5 | Similar proposals put forward at the end of World War I , to provide financial support via NHI to women after childbirth , were rejected largely because it was felt that they would offer an inducement to married women to work . |
| 6 | Shortly before signing the non-aggression accord , however , the two sides announced that they would hold a meeting at Panmunjom on Dec. 26 , in order to discus the issue of nuclear weapons within the Korean peninsula . |
| 7 | Two thirds of those questioned said that they would visit a betting shop in the evening . |
| 8 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 9 | It is noteworthy that those who advocate these policies also themselves concede in surveys that they would welcome an increase in the basic rate of tax as well as other tax increases . |
| 10 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 11 | The brokers are scheduled to start again from scratch today , but there is talk of rival firms telling the Kuwaitis that they would like a go . |
| 12 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 13 | He offered Gedge a bet that they would play an encore again sometime in the next five years , but he refused . |
| 14 | It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area . |
| 15 | The House of Lords upheld the award as a punishment to both author and publisher , as there was evidence that both were reckless about the truth of the defamatory statements in the book , and indeed hoped that they would cause a sensation so that the book 's sales would increase . |
| 16 | It was always assumed that they would get a job , a home , a wife and children , in that order . |
| 17 | I was prepared to accept the fact that they would kill a man or boy with as little compunction as I would shoot a buck . |
| 18 | Of 10,000,000 workers polled , only 10 per cent said that they would support a strike in protest at the government 's economic policies , although 86 per cent expressed willingness to participate in protest demonstrations . |
| 19 | Agreement on the protocol was facilitated by announcements before and during the conference by the Netherlands , Germany and Japan to the effect that they would support a prohibition of mining . |
| 20 | The general idea behind them was that they would provide a setting for vigorous entrepreneurs , capable of generating an industrial renaissance . |
| 21 | PRD leaders stated that they would maintain a picket of the governor 's palace , which had begun on Aug. 7 , to prevent Villaseñor from carrying out his duties . |
| 22 | They had decided that they would save a lot of money doing their own purchasing and importing , and Christina wanted to make her own contribution to all the work on the hotel . |
| 23 | So saying , she bustled Theda back behind the curtain , bidding her change quickly that they might visit a milliner , and prudently went away to confer with Antoinette . |
| 24 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 25 | Which I suspect the odd tory MP having a heart attack , falling under a bus , the loss of directions might actually mean that they might see a degree of sense in borough capping . |
| 26 | How cast his shadow over the imaginations of their daughters before their squires beget upon them that they might breed a race less ignoble than their own ? |
| 27 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , ’ she pushed forcefully at him , uncaring that they might have an audience , when his glance shot over her shoulder , ‘ keep your licentious grubby paws to yourself ! ’ |
| 29 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 30 | Hoping that they 'll have a home . |