Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adoption agencies in Britain take the greatest trouble to see that children are placed where they will enjoy a strong family background . |
| 2 | Those built by governments seem most commonly to have been placed where they could combine the functions of protecting the local population and housing the official who governed the area . |
| 3 | When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet . |
| 4 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
| 5 | ‘ I understand it 's hard for the organisers because they have to go where they can find the biggest sponsor . |
| 6 | Must eat or they will faint ; hungry empty feeling in the whole abdomen . |
| 7 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 8 | They can do if they want or they can progress onto other rooms to get time back that way , but anyway , ca n't you ? we have er a target to meet on the programme of X percentage time and they will meet that far Wednesday afternoon so we have n't continued and shown |
| 9 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 10 | However , these same life cycles also suggest that they may have a different nature from the larger ovals . |
| 11 | The symbolic function of the different styles present in the built environment which is the context for everyday action suggest that they might fuel an apparently active and sustained debate between suburban individualism and inner city communalism . |
| 12 | Sometimes they are used to test psychological norms in areas where dominant discourses suggest that they might differ from them , like cognitive development , educational attainment , mental disorder , self-concept , and family structure . |
| 13 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | How did I know that they would say yes so readily ? |
| 16 | And did they know that they would get some money when he died ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ More to the point , Chieh Hsia , how do you know that they 'll do as you ask ? ’ |
| 18 | they 'll get into the , they 'll get into that garage right , so they look and see things they did n't know that they can make money on |
| 19 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 20 | Yeah but you must , that , that , that your congregation , that all the people in the pastorate must know that they can go to you and that you will listen . |
| 21 | They would n't know that they 'd have to breathe out all the way up . |
| 22 | It should be stressed that they should carry on normally during the observation period ; it is simply the time when the specified behaviours are recorded . |
| 23 | Under present conditions , time will be short ; the parents will be advised of the risks and consequences of their actions , but it will be stressed that they must decide . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | Pupils are reminded that they should have all books , calculators , kit etc named and that they should not leave their bags near the Vennel Gate . |
| 26 | The Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries of France , Germany , Italy , the Benelux or wherever should be reminded that they will have to account to their own Parliament . |
| 27 | Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process . |
| 28 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 29 | Aung San and his supporters were demanding full independence , but I happened to know that they would have been content , possibly even pleased , to be granted Dominion status . |
| 30 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |