Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merchant-princes of Venice were not reigning princes or immensely wealthy cardinals ; they economized where they could and , although astonishing spectacle was indispensable to the success of opera , the Venetians were adept at producing striking effects with relatively simple means . |
| 2 | He therefore proposed that they should be given increased representation in Legislative Councils and that they should be admitted to the administrative services . |
| 3 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 4 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 5 | The EPA and FDA , together with the Department of Agriculture , promised that they would use both reports " as a basis for formulating the legislative and regulatory policies needed to put the Administration 's principles [ for cutting pesticide use ] into effect " . |
| 6 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 7 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 8 | In May 1314 they maintained that they could be taxed only in their own assemblies ; when Edward tried to proceed through parliament he often found himself thwarted — as in January 1316 — by the inadequate attendance of the clergy . |
| 9 | Foreign teachers of English often joked that they could not pass TOEFL , but for the Chinese students it was no laughing matter . |
| 10 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 11 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 12 | All the places you mentioned that they used to meet , my husband had been there recently . |
| 13 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 14 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 15 | The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business , processed foods . |
| 16 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
| 17 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 18 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 19 | Patterson trained her subjects to ask questions when they found that they could not choose between competing referents . |
| 20 | Even after the passing of minimum-wage legislation in 1909 , as many as 42 per cent of the homeworkers in the trades covered by the Acts found that they could not earn the statutory minimum . |
| 21 | Attfield and Duck ( 1982 ) found that they could reject the rational expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates when they applied the above model to three-monthly , five-yearly and ten-yearly rates of interest in the UK . |
| 22 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 23 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 24 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 25 | On a sunny wall I grew tomatoes and found that they need n't be , after all , red bags of tasteless liquid but firm and sweet and tasting of — I could just remember it — tomatoes . |
| 26 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |
| 27 | Of those interviewed 52 per cent reported that they would be pleased to enter a general ward compared with 13 per cent for a geriatric ward and 10 per cent for a geriatric hospital . |
| 28 | Approximately 20 per cent of subjects reported that they would be pleased to enter a private/public sector home , but only 10 per cent favoured the geriatric hospital . |
| 29 | However , by choosing their specialties and places of work carefully , most people reported that they could fulfil all of their work obligations . |
| 30 | He felt like telling the old folk it was not New Year 's Eve , but he doubted if they would believe him . |