Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 More and more people in South Africa want to go where they ca n't hear the screaming .
2 Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again .
3 What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future .
4 This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders .
5 The figure 's three times more than Spurs were offering and Swindon say they 're delighted , although they wo n't get the full amount themselves .
6 We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals .
7 They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered .
8 Staff can touch the body provided they wear disposable gloves , although they should not wash the body .
9 It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job .
10 They have no money , so they have no accommodation , so they ca n't find a job .
11 That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have .
12 They do n't have electrical power , so they ca n't use a telegraph . ’
13 The difference between our position and that of the Labour party is that people accept that we would be prepared to use nuclear weapons and know that Labour Members would not be , so they would not have a deterrent .
14 You see Walsall being a leather town there was a lot of this er bark tannin as went and when anyone who was ill so they would n't hear the noises of the horse driven vehicles going by they used to , for about fifty yards each side of the house they used to put this stuff in the road to deaden the sound .
15 If people have a bad cold , the nasal cavity gets blocked up and so they can not say the sounds properly .
16 They are based on SCOTVEC 's very popular modular provision , so they will not require a major shift of emphasis in centres .
17 Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river !
18 This was because they generally had low and insecure incomes , so they could not obtain a mortgage for buying their own suburban house .
19 Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ?
20 If they wo n't order the stock , do they really expect a new franchisee to do it ?
21 Secondly it had demonstrated that the clergy were well nigh powerless against royal tax demands : if they would not make a grant , the king could outlaw them and raise the money by fines , or he could simply seize their temporalities .
22 The rag I read mentioned Leeds might switch their attention to Alan Mclaren of Hearts if they ca n't lower the price being asked for 30-year-old Jobson .
23 But , if they ca n't break the star system , if it is impossible for a band of this stature to remain an ‘ ordinary existence ’ ( although it must be stated that New Order deliberately unglamourise their existence , wisely slowing down their schedules and viciously guarding their faceless media presence .
24 And if you if they ca n't absorb the information what 's the point in giving the signal in the first place ?
25 He stormed : ‘ The FA should suspend him for a couple of years and if they ca n't ban the video then they should fine him every penny he makes out of it .
26 Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind .
27 One or two people who 'll be sleeping rough if they ca n't beg the room rate .
28 Those who miss the lecture can see it later and those who attend the course in years to come can at least have the video lecture even if they ca n't have the real thing .
29 Yes , if they ca n't have the option in the leaver , then they get the extra allocation of units .
30 If they ca n't get the NHS right after 13 years they never will , ’ he said .
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