Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need to assist people to be economically active where they live may make it expedient to encourage educational support systems linked with other services at the local level . |
| 2 | The kind of things that they make may reflect ideas that they encounter in stories , rhymes or visits . |
| 3 | Once we have mastered a keyboard , most of us flinch at the idea of having to write a lot of stuff out in longhand , but there are still poor benighted souls that find the keyboard impossible to master , and for their benefit , Microsoft Corp , Apple Computer Inc Lotus Development Corp , General Magic Inc , Go Corp and Slate Corp came together at Comdex to announce Jot 1.0 , a standard that they hope will enhance the use of pen-based computers . |
| 4 | That is , teachers will take a stance that they know will damage their careers in order to uphold a principle about how the school should run . |
| 5 | Good players have a large vocabulary of patterns that they know will give them an advantage ; these are the ‘ ends ’ . |
| 6 | The latter two may be the attractions prompting the former , but where the countryside or environmental features are the foci of interest , large influxes of people and the attendant services that they require can bring about environmental change . |
| 7 | Now they have started again , as investors convince themselves that the worst of the recession is over ; as some junk-bond issuers take advantage of falling interest rates and the stockmarket rally to refinance their debt more cheaply or turn it into equity ; and as bond-raiders speculate in distressed companies that they think may restructure themselves or be taken over . |
| 8 | Detectives hunting the killer of a businessman who was shot dead as he walked his dogs today carried out a reconstruction involving the car and a motorbike that they think may have been used in the murder . |
| 9 | ‘ In the process of responding to problems people look selectively at their values and historical traditions and select those parts which will reinforce the sort of structure that they think will solve their problems ’ ( Patrick 1975 p.187 ) . |
| 10 | Otherwise staff apply to attend courses that they consider will benefit the service ’ . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that either provision will be needed but the fact that they exist may help to prevent undesirable practices developing with respect to computer software . |
| 12 | So the forces that they carry will have only a short range . |
| 13 | Many executives I observed deal with this dilemma by acting in a way that they believe will lead to productive consequences . |
| 14 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 15 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 16 | A court should now consider the effect of the provocation on ‘ a person having the power of self-control to be expected of an ordinary person of the sex and age of the accused , but in other respects sharing such of the accused 's characteristics as they think would affect the gravity of the provocation to him ’ . |