Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] they [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bus company operators insist they will lose custom if the plan to move bus stops from the High Row to Crown Street goes ahead . |
| 2 | But the Lib Dems think THEY can take North East because they beat the Tories soundly in the local council elections last year . |
| 3 | The Indian and Indonesian governments announced they would demand compensation from the ship 's owners for pollution caused to their territories . |
| 4 | And banks reckon they can distribute life products much more cheaply than big insurers , which have costly and old-fashioned national sales networks . |
| 5 | In the 1960s buyers thought they could raise cash flows by forming conglomerates , applying their management skills and diversifying risk . |
| 6 | In the 1980s buyers thought they could raise cash flows by breaking up these conglomerates , by giving managers different incentives and controls , and by exploiting more fully tax breaks for debt interest . |
| 7 | In the early 1900s buyers of firms guessed they could raise cash flows through economies of scale and by limiting competition . |
| 8 | But how strange it was , the changes which the past two or three weeks had brought : not merely the changes of circumstances ; her father and his hoped for promotion , herself going to the Stadium , Omi talking about herself , Fritz … but the whole relationship inside the family had altered , and she herself had changed , and it had begun with the arrival of Uncle Karl , as if he were a sorcerer , a wave of whose manicured hands could transform life , as alchemists thought they could transform base metal into gold or , with a certain sinister frisson , perhaps the other way around . |
| 9 | Eighteen of the 33 respondents said they would welcome training in educational methods and principles . |
| 10 | On the one hand , the Socialists say they will tackle corruption by introducing a new law on party financing . |
| 11 | Cricket officials and local residents say they will fight tooth and nail to save the ground , home to both clubs since the early 1930s . |
| 12 | Judges , magistrates and justices ' clerks believe they must keep custody as a deterrent against frequent offenders and ‘ to give society a rest ’ . |
| 13 | AT first , the politicians thought they could run Hoover . |