Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb base] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council will move high priority homeless families into the homes and the housing benefit they receive will go to the building society to pay the mortgage . |
| 2 | The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment . |
| 3 | The job they do must place real demands upon them . |
| 4 | The picture they draw will use various materials gathered from the past , and how this has affected the way they currently feel . |
| 5 | Torvill and Dean back on British ice for the training routine they hope will take them to championship success once again . |
| 6 | They should also not be used with certain electronic chimes as the current they use may trigger the chime . |
| 7 | Many pupils go on field courses , and the area they visit could form a focus for contrast with their own home area . |
| 8 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke was criticised by police officers yesterday for shelving plans to arm them with a truncheon they say could have protected injured policewoman Leslie Harrison from attack . |
| 9 | They are particularly anxious to hear from a man they think may have witnessed one attack . |
| 10 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 11 | The choice they make will depend in large part on their learnt values , but there is a second level of explanation , concerned with influences we mentioned earlier ( p. 10 ) — practical constraints on action . |
| 12 | Some counties take the view that the cricket they provide should take the form that their members want rather than allowing Test cricket to take precedence . |
| 13 | POLICE swooped to crush a soccer forgery racket they fear could spark a Hillsborough-style tragedy . |
| 14 | Because it is an earnings-related scheme , if women do qualify for a SERP , the pension they receive will reflect their tendency to earn less than men . |
| 15 | The employment they take may have no connection With their previous skills or employment but serves as a temporary measure to raise self-esteem by doing something positive . |
| 16 | If judges are guided by this advice , he believes , then unless they make great mistakes , the coercion they direct will make the community 's future brighter , liberated from the dead hand of the past and the fetish of consistency for its own sake . |
| 17 | Spouses who know that the way they behave will affect their partners ' chances of getting a job should try and find out beforehand what is expected of them . |
| 18 | They are entitled to legal representation on their own behalf and any solicitor they appoint will represent their interests in the proceedings . |
| 19 | No longer will some have power over others : positions of authority and the obedience they command will disappear . |