Example sentences of "[subord] they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One carries a rope and he frets about its purpose , whether it 's required , where they could possibly have used it . |
| 2 | Left : Most wide waterway craft were built with a more spacious cabin and many boatmen lived on board although they may also have kept a house on shore . |
| 3 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 4 | Recalls Gerrard : ‘ Ray and Diana were n't married then , although they would dearly like to have been , because they were citizens of the Republic . |
| 5 | He pointed out that although they would automatically have carried out such precautions , water would always be found in the deeper parts of the mine . |
| 6 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 7 | Interestingly enough , it is also a point with which all serious anthropologists and historians would now agree , although they would perhaps hesitate to spell out , as Engels and Leach have done , its implication . |
| 8 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 9 | From the standpoint of more worldly considerations , the signing of the concordat soothed the irritation of those Catholics who did not like the trend towards closer relations with what they saw as Protestant — that is , heretic — America ( although they must also have recognized that the Catholic political and economic lobby in the United States was large , rich and influential ) . |
| 10 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 11 | In the role of general secretary of the ITGWU Larkin proved to be a difficult colleague and drove union leaders on the mainland into less militant positions than they might otherwise have adopted . |
| 12 | We very much hope that that money will help many countries to phase out CFCs much earlier than they might otherwise have done . |
| 13 | He moved more heavily and slowly so that often they had to pause to allow him to keep up , and they rested for his sake more often than they would otherwise have done . |
| 14 | Compact will certainly enable some young people to secure better jobs than they would otherwise have done . |
| 15 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 16 | Developments in Afghanistan assumed a greater significance for Western governments than they would otherwise have had because of the place they appeared to occupy in an ‘ Arc of Crisis ’ that extended from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia . |
| 17 | Millions of British motorists are driving cars more plush than they would ever choose to own were they handed the extra money and told to spend it themselves . |
| 18 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 19 | He gave them far more money than the business was worth or than they should ever have got their hands on . |
| 20 | erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , these kids still approach the major record companies in search of greater fame and fortune than they could ever hope to achieve by themselves . |
| 22 | The corporations are also the development-control authority for the designated area , so they may thus determine planning applications made to them or deem themselves planning permission by resolution . |
| 23 | And possibly Tina and that is off so they 'll just have to struggle on as if we were there and a lot of others were off . |
| 24 | They invariably came from countries with no state pension arrangements for most people , so they could only start contributing towards their pensions once they arrived in Britain . |
| 25 | I mean this they must have got my name through Miriam so they must already have worked out the they were working |
| 26 | He states these facts slowly and carefully , as if they might somehow have slipped her mind . |
| 27 | She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her . |
| 28 | The agency believes that investors will refuse to buy plants in the polluted region if they will also have to pay for cleaning up the environment . |
| 29 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 30 | Because then they knew that we a couple of the kids were really terrified of him and if they 'd only have to hear his his footsteps walking up the street and they 'd start to shake . |