Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] they [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone will order me around and I will just have to smile and do as they say or they will not look after me when I am an old woman . |
| 2 | Department of Health guidelines ( DHSS , 1988b ) suggest that they should also offer parents an opportunity to have their views and wishes heard and that parents should be invited , where practicable , to attend part , or if appropriate the whole , of the case conference . |
| 3 | As soon as the adventurers realise that they ca n't outrun the mist , it coalesces into three cowled figures . |
| 4 | And erm Maisy and Freda say that they would still like a few bottles and that for the stall please . |
| 5 | Some teachers say that they ca n't leave out attractive or valuable items on open display in classrooms and corridors in case of theft or damage . |
| 6 | But they say that they wo n't come off when you go swimming , and you take your clothes on and off . |
| 7 | However , because the individual has settled here the Government say that they can not send that person back . |
| 8 | It is then a matter of preference whether you say that they can not choose the goals or that they can not form strategies to achieve them or both . |
| 9 | The Government say that they can not tell us the value of the companies because the information is commercially sensitive . |
| 10 | The Germans say that they can not absorb that number , and country after country is saying the same . |
| 11 | Germany , the Netherlands and Belgium are supporters of the British plan but other EC countries say that they can not afford to build the new plants required for waste disposal . |
| 12 | Forby , I say that they will not wait in the town to let themselves be besieged . |
| 13 | Its defenders say that they will always keep its price high and carefully screen potential owners , as a way of protecting it . |
| 14 | " Aye — but if there 's anything you want that they ca n't get you. ? " |
| 15 | Many activists in Paisley 's Protestant Unionist Party insist that they would never have become involved in politics if there had remained one reliable traditional unionist party . |
| 16 | I just put the title ‘ Division ’ on the board and they immediately wail that they ca n't do it . |
| 17 | But no more extensions are expected , and with most WIPers older than 40 , those who do not negotiate a contract during this time fear that they may never work again as scientists . |
| 18 | I think this is generally because there is so little loft on the clubface and they fear that they will not get the ball into the air . |
| 19 | I fear that they will eventually prove to have come from the Welsh Office , via the Cardiff Bay development corporation . |
| 20 | To touch a dead man or to come into contact with the blood of an injured person would make them unclean and mean that they could not carry out their duties . |
| 21 | Does Article 37 mean that they could not make a claim to terminate the right on this ground ? |
| 22 | Elderly people who worry that they ca n't afford VAT on fuel are putting their lives at risk by buying second hand paraffin heaters . |
| 23 | But they worry that they will not have enough money to pay their bills so they hoard it . |
| 24 | Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Academic Parties undertake that they will not make any application for registration of IPR in respect of any technical information relating to results without the prior written consent of the Non-academic Parties . |
| 25 | People will be tuning in all over the world for these live performances and it 's the organisers ’ hope that they will also take note of the educational messages conveyed . |
| 26 | when the , when , when noise is too loud they just cut cos they ca n't cope with it . |
| 27 | Protean-like kings , these people raise and they may likewise level . |
| 28 | The selectors , though , clearly consider that they could still have need of the towering mass of Dooley 's physical presence . |
| 29 | On the one hand , long serving committee members complain that they ca n't find anyone to take on their work after perhaps years of occupying their post . |
| 30 | In Zimbabwe parents complain that they can not afford the new school fees . |