Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And on a more mundane level , they may well want the tourists back , before martial law , Lhasa was becoming a sought-after destination for western travellers and for their dollars . |
| 2 | If the tetras can seek their own ‘ space ’ , then they may well leave the loaches in peace . |
| 3 | They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use . |
| 4 | They may also cover the costs of insurance of personal effects in transit , storage charges and travel and hotel accommodation costs for employees and their families during the move . |
| 5 | They may also explain the observations that eye removal profoundly inhibits gliogenesis in the optic tectum of the frog and mouse . |
| 6 | They almost certainly meet the needs of individual clients , but , like primary nursing , they may also fulfil the needs of the professionals concerned so successfully that the professionals , rather than the recipients of care , are really the most important clients of the system . |
| 7 | They may also contain the eggs , spores or pupae of other small animals that will hatch out when you have put the material in your microhabitat . |
| 8 | First , planners are often blamed , because they may frequently specify the styles and building materials with which new houses should be built , ‘ in keeping ’ with existing structures ( Blacksell and Gilg 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 10 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 11 | It 's not enough for British products to be good value in terms of price — they must also match the standards of products from other countries in both performance and reliability . |
| 12 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 13 | But in doing so they must not restrict the opportunities for one gender or racial group . |
| 14 | But despite this , a Customs official suggested to the Foreign Office that approaches be made to the two ambassadors to suggest that they should not allow the officials to appear in court to support this claim as part of the defence case . |
| 15 | The Poles must oppose secession in the name of the unity of the working class of all the Russias , but they should not ask the Russians to compromise with Great Russian chauvinism by refusing the Poles the right to secede . |
| 16 | I agree they should n't buy the tickets because they 're the |
| 17 | They should also observe the directions of the court in respect of the court-ordered meeting . |
| 18 | Yeah , they 'll not turn the lights out until the till i make sure it 's out and everything . |
| 19 | Have a drink on Warninks this Christmas and they 'll even provide the glasses . |
| 20 | They 'll probably sell the gilts on then re reinvest in other investments . |
| 21 | The fans , well , they 'll probably say the players lost their way . |
| 22 | Farmers wo n't even bother to harvest it , right , simply because , the bulk of it , the total production costs , will be labour , will be the labour costs of harvesting , and if they ca n't cover those labour costs of harvesting by selling their produce , which they wo n't be able to if there 's been a bumper harvest because prices are very low , they 'll just leave the things rotting on the trees and er , that is , that is what , what happens quite regularly in horticultural markets which tend not to be markets that are supported through the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure they 'll always keep the houses filled with flowers . |
| 24 | But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time . |
| 25 | They could n't do the splits . |
| 26 | But then they could n't bear the clothes to go in together . |
| 27 | ( They could n't answer the questions — Ed ) |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | ‘ We listened to the song and drew our own conclusions , but it did n't matter what it meant , ’ Nicholson recalled , ‘ because everyone was so stoned they could n't remember the words . |
| 30 | Er and although they 'd got , they could n't get the towns although they had . |