Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But two new devices now available mean they will soon be able to put some distance between them and the chemical . |
| 2 | The scheme includes access to databases on health and safety topics which can help representatives overcome the sense of isolation they might otherwise experience from being based offshore , he said . |
| 3 | Those who practise witchcraft are , by definition , in the wrong : if they had right on their side they would hardly need to descend to such mean tricks as witchcraft . |
| 4 | Vertical movement along a fault may lead to the impoundment of streams if they are flowing towards the uplifted block , whereas if they are flowing towards the down-thrown side they will rapidly cut down through the fault scarp . |
| 5 | They have to come to terms with the fact that there is a rival in the camp , a rival they would both love to remove but hate to lose because of his separate contributions to home life . |
| 6 | Written of with emotion they can still ring true . |
| 7 | As a result they may always be hard up without needing to be . |
| 8 | In future they would no longer be allowed to finance public-sector deficits or loan applications from large debtors . |
| 9 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 10 | Although there are now more helpers at the club they could still do with more . |
| 11 | Although there are now more helpers at the club they could still do with more . |
| 12 | Boredom with politics was a state of mind they could only comprehend intellectually . |
| 13 | Here are some examples : they can see in the dark they can never ever tell a lie when they are with other people they know what they are thinking they are living backwards in time — they were born in the future and so instead of getting older , they get younger . |
| 14 | ‘ Now that they ca n't get hold of cocaine they 'll just crash out . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 17 | The former group is a subset of the latter since if outputs and prices are sustainable to " ultrafree " entry they will definitely be sustainable to less than free entry . |
| 18 | It might be thought odd that the desperately poor spent hard-earned pence on providing for a ceremony they would never see . |
| 19 | However , as Cusick maintained , once the audience had seen people coming and going through a stone doorway they would subconsciously assume the rest of the set to be stone as well . |
| 20 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 21 | But since then things have changed , and if they are prepared to go to a little trouble and expense they can now acquire a cat that will almost certainly give them no problems . |
| 22 | Which may not rank the outsiders in the eyes of the Ladbrokes odds-maker , but if they look over the fence they will certainly be able to see the outsiders from where they have been placed . |
| 23 | The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort . |
| 24 | Some composers feel that the use of obvious metres does not suit their own aesthetic , that metre is an impediment they can well do without . |
| 25 | If she lost control of the boat they would both be drowned . |
| 26 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 27 | Should the proposals come into force they would greatly affect the already unfairly restricted use of metal detectors . |
| 28 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 29 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 30 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |