Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] they [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way . |
| 2 | They could therefore intercede with him for the living , to whom they might appear , and for whom they might still work miracles . |
| 3 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 4 | Between them they could probably have established the reason for the failure quite easily . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 6 | The original forest peoples of the tropics have been greatly reduced or , at least , the territory through which they could formerly move has . |
| 7 | The most recent GUIs also incorporate a windowing facility enabling users to create a window within one application through which they can simultaneously run another . |
| 8 | Shadow environment secretary Jack Staw said : ‘ This was an historic betrayal by the Liberals for which they will not long , nor lightly , be forgiven . ’ |
| 9 | I wondered what it was that could come between a husband and wife when their child killed herself away from home and in circumstances for which they could not hold themselves in any way responsible . |
| 10 | These developed from the legal concept of ultra vires ( beyond the strength ) which , since the mid nineteenth century , had prohibited local councils from doing anything for which they could not show precise legal authority . |
| 11 | The report confirmed that house officers spend much of their time on inappropriate tasks — either those that are beyond their competence and for which they can not hope to provide optimum care ( like providing the main source of symptom control to inpatients , the sole medical cover to surgical patients , and explaining complicated procedures to patients and relatives ) and others that could be done just as well by non-medical staff ( like filing reports , taking routine blood samples , and arranging beds ) . |
| 12 | With such a healthy list of urgent needs , advice workers might be excused if they become impatient when training for which they can not see an immediate need is imposed upon them . |
| 13 | It also confutes their claim to completeness by staging narrative structures for which they can not account . |
| 14 | We 'll drive past them and once we get past them they 'll probably start shouting . |
| 15 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 16 | We tried to make suggestions for character developments , all of which they would n't allow . |
| 17 | There something terrible has happened to them of which they will not speak : ‘ A darkness lies behind us … and we have turned our backs on it ’ ( p. 141 ) . |
| 18 | Prosecutors examine the police case as a complete product , in the making of which they can not interfere . |
| 19 | Thus the coarse grains will be driven up the slope DA and will come to rest in the lee of the crest , AB , past which they can not move because of the complete shelter here . |
| 20 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 21 | Whether that would be in China or another country depended on the unknown factors of what they would actually find overseas and the outcome of developments in China . |
| 22 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 23 | They rooted out those folk who were not … ordinary , and banished them from Minginish. people are afraid of what they can not understand . ’ |
| 24 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 25 | If they did n't work for you they 'd only work for someone else . |
| 26 | But for some of the workers who feel their wages are slipping away the race to the receivers and court feels like one they ca n't win . |
| 27 | So now he would get them for something they might not have done . |
| 28 | Provided your ferrets are trained and have been handled well and you have developed a good relationship with them they will not bite you . |
| 29 | The diploma ( at an examining fee of three guineas ) was , Coleman claimed , signed by people known to all Europe , and this would undoubtedly carry great weight in the country town in which the qualifying student might go to practise ; local medical men would see that the certificate must refer to men with whom they might safely associate . |
| 30 | Above all , from the child 's viewpoint , the teacher needs to be an interesting person , one with whom they can readily identify . |