Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 2 | If they 're wrongly placed they can blank out the screens and make them impossible to read . |
| 3 | Of course , the states with good measurements tend to be the ones that had suddenly realised they might run out of capacity , and taken action to avoid that . |
| 4 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 5 | When astronomers could build a large enough telescope they would see the lunar inhabitants going about their daily lives . |
| 6 | Experts say chicanes do work but wrongly designed they can speed traffic up . |
| 7 | Centre forward Alan Wegg , keeper Brian Dale and long serving defender Dave Calland have all said they will play . |
| 8 | If they 're desperate enough to sell they 'll flog it ! |
| 9 | She said , ‘ I only hope they can leave you alone for one night . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Master Rickie Crowninshield likes to scuba , ’ McIllvanney said sourly , ‘ and his daddy 's paying for the gear , so gear they will have . |
| 11 | The rest of him , though , ran true to form : an old school blazer , jeans so faded they could appear in a Levi ad any day now , and what appeared to be a genuine official Born To Run tour T-shirt . |
| 12 | At the same time , in their attempts to rearticulate these basic issues , feminists necessarily take over and use philosophical concepts already available — and in so doing they may import , entailed or entangled in apparently neutral concepts , implications which reiterate and reinforce the assumptions that are being challenged . |
| 13 | They could not give the impression that they doubted the validity of their king 's claim to the crown of France , for by so doing they would have thrown doubt upon the symbolic and legal importance of Henry VI 's French coronation , rendering illegal the very authority ( the royal one ) upon which the validity of the grants made to Englishmen ( and others ) in Normandy depended . |
| 14 | They should only regulate the mix of house types when there are specific planning reasons for such control , and in so doing they should take particular account of marketing considerations . |
| 15 | Under the c under the constitution of America , big word , constitution of America , it is written into the constitution of America all , I think it goes , all militia men militia men and men can bear arms for their country which basically reads they can defend their country , they can have a gun in their house to defend their country . |
| 16 | ‘ I suddenly thought they 'd shut me in there . |
| 17 | Some anonymous little department at D15 that took care of people who got out of line , but would that necessarily mean they 'd have a go at me ? |
| 18 | Were naive enough to think they could get through it without having an appraisal system , which I could not believe . |
| 19 | That 's why er people who come to our company and then after a year or so think they can go away and do this on their own , ca n't do it . |
| 20 | Parliament was an assembly over which the clergy had no theoretical control , however much weight they might wield within it in practice ; convocation was a provincial — not a national assembly , and , though often summoned on the king 's nod , it met by , and laid down , its own procedures and determined its own composition . |
| 21 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 22 | He is dependent on the permission of others for every step he takes , and if they so wish they can make it impossible for him to carry on any concrete activity . |
| 23 | Though if you give them enough notice they can do almost anything … |
| 24 | So you can only say they may make a payment . |
| 25 | ‘ I admit I did not think they would do that . ’ |
| 26 | The children were terrified when the flood happened and I just do not think they would want to come back . ’ |
| 27 | Nutty did not think they would win . |
| 28 | Saddam is now more reliant than ever on other clans , which do not think they would survive his overthrow . |
| 29 | I saw it , ’ and Chapman backed his players ' view : ‘ I could not see clearly from my position , but Arsenal , almost to a man , stopped playing and I do not think they would have done that unless they had been satisfied that the ball had been out of play , ’ he told the Sunday Express . |
| 30 | Other publishers do not think they must follow Reed 's initiative to regain lost ground . |