Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is direct discrimination , eg the refusal to recruit women because of the fear they may require time off due to child birth and looking after children . |
| 2 | He had two friends there , two male friends , who had a little boat they could take fishing . |
| 3 | I mean the way we look at it really is to group villages together so perhaps they 'll have more cover if they 've got two or three specials who work different hours if they have a vehicle they can have access to , provide the cover there . |
| 4 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 5 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 6 | It was understood that on their return they would have tea on Grace . |
| 7 | And meanwhile , next year 's potatoes will not be planted because the men who should be doing it are on the public works instead — and they are on the public works because that is the only place they can get money to buy the meal they need to replace the potato that failed . ’ |
| 8 | If he was normally quite a kind person who 'd taken up robbing banks because he was short of cash they could put jam on his bread and vodka in his water , and if he was a horror they could empty the potato peelings over him whenever they felt like it . ’ |
| 9 | Any cake they could get hold of he advised them to eat . |
| 10 | If relatives can not afford to pay for the funeral they should seek assistance from the Department of Social Security ( DSS ) ( see Section 4 ) . |
| 11 | For their own safety they should stand back to back so that they have a completely free field of fire over 180 degrees each . |
| 12 | They both listened , as above the noise of the rain they could hear Caspar barking . |
| 13 | A warm room makes the coryza worse ( < ) before the fever comes on ; after the fever they must have heat . |
| 14 | Their refusal to do so had more to do with a laager mentality than with calculations that by spinning out the conflict they could buy time to mop up more territory . |
| 15 | THE conservative arch-rival of Russia 's leader , Boris Yeltsin , yesterday backtracked on demands for the president 's impeachment and said there was still a chance they could reach agreement to end the power struggle that is paralysing the country . |
| 16 | British Airways , which has 53 jumbos , and Virgin , which has eight , said last night they would replace fuse pins on engine mountings more often . |
| 17 | Experienced shearers like Michael are in so much demand they can find employment right across the globe . |
| 18 | Despite their small size the fry are relatively hardy and grow quite quickly , and after a week they will take brine shrimp without any problem . |
| 19 | If the price of the good in their market is , for whatever reason , known to be higher than its average price in the whole economy they will take advantage of this high relative price and supply a higher quantity of the good than they otherwise would . |
| 20 | In the afternoon they would make love , with the great windows open to the sky , and a hot , heavy summer rain falling , crushing the flowers and filling the air with the scent of roses … |
| 21 | In the afternoon they would don chamois gloves and make aimless ritual drives into the Green Belt , in-laws glumly ensconced in the back-seat , stopping at the side of an arterial road to circulate solemnly a vacuum flask . |
| 22 | On the secret deal deferring payment for Rover until next March , Lord Young writes : ‘ I can offer three possibilities , in ascending order of risk that the deferment will be picked up by the commission , in which case they might require repayment of the notional interest saved . |
| 23 | Word counts can show remarkable discrepancies in the vocabulary control that is typical ; for instance they may contain strawberry but not orange . |
| 24 | As before , on the upward Part of the curve people will predict eternal boom and on the downward part they will predict disaster claiming that the situation has changed permanently . |
| 25 | Most would have tackled problems related to sheep on their own , but in dealing with a cow they would seek help and then assist in any way they could . |
| 26 | Some experts claim the difference may be as much as 15 per cent , but producers in Austria--which leads the rest of Europe in RME use--claim they can make RME for the same price as diesel . |
| 27 | The paper 's political editor , Trevor Kavanagh , has been suggesting at Westminster that John Smith is the kind of man they can do business with . |
| 28 | The plan this time is to walk to Everest Base camp … from there within sight of the great peak they 'll tackle Pokalde … which stands at over 20 thousand feet |
| 29 | If clients are able to pay the bill they can get advice from a solicitor as often as they desire and on whatever topic they choose . |
| 30 | Their bosses are often bright but similarly inexperienced 29-year-old vice presidents with wardrobes from Brooks Brothers and so little credit training they would have trouble with a simple retail installment loan . |