Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [conj] they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten classic schoolboy howlers that say more than they should : |
| 2 | But there has been no sign of panic flight as they remain convinced that they can still leave Libya by road , albeit at the cost of a 12-hour drive through the desert . |
| 3 | The Palestinians are tired but still defiant after their long struggle and most Israelis , like Mr Rabin , remain confident that they can cope , even if their doubts are beginning to nag . |
| 4 | The Palestinians are tired but still defiant after their long struggle and most Israelis , like Mr Rabin , remain confident that they can cope , even if their doubts are beginning to nag . |
| 5 | When you send items overseas , make sure that they will be accepted in the country they are going to by checking in the Royal Mail International Guide . |
| 6 | If you are using " real " people , make sure that they will be reasonably comfortable in front of the camera . |
| 7 | If your audience includes members who speak different languages or hold different religious views make sure that they can enjoy the quotations too and feel that you are addressing them as well as appreciate their point of view . |
| 8 | In short , they get less than they would with insider trading . |
| 9 | From Polanyi 's account of the tacit knowledge with which scientists operate ( they ‘ know more than they can tell ’ ) , through Kuhn 's picture of incommensurable paradigms ( their proponents ‘ practise their trades in a different world ’ ) to Feyerabend 's idea of scientific growth through unbridled Machiavellianism ( ‘ anything goes ’ ) , it has emerged that even science can not live up to its self-congratulatory belief in its own reasonableness . |
| 10 | And I think if any performers know any where they may find problems is if they 're still very much involved in the music industry , because it becomes a sort of er a diversionary activity . |
| 11 | I think they eat more if they can just help themselves a bit at a time when they want it . |
| 12 | At one extreme some males simply remain unpaired because they can not attract a female . |
| 13 | Erm , which I just find amazing that they can do that . |
| 14 | They feel that they should know what they want in a room from the very beginning , and feel incompetent if they can not make up their minds right away . |
| 15 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 16 | Juliet Kellner spoke to some people who pay less than they might — or none at all — and found out how they salve their consciences . |
| 17 | Dance is a physical manifestation and dancers only become expressive when they can feel the movements both physically and emotionally , and when they are inspired by the choreographer 's interpretation and enthusiasm . |
| 18 | Though there is little doubt that all these aspects of the State are valuable and important , it has also become clear that they can form the basis of a very one-sided picture . |
| 19 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 20 | To take the complex , the Mongol hordes would have had to abandon their steppe ponies and turn aquatic before they could even reach the outer defences . |
| 21 | By this means the Sun-facing regions become cooler than they would otherwise be . |
| 22 | Those who do kick more do that because they ca n't run , and those who run will do that irrespective of whether the try is worth three , four or five points ’ . |
| 23 | Im sure if they could manage to go to some obscure town on the borders of scotland last round , they could manage to ‘ waste ’ 10 seconds on Leeds . |
| 24 | The ‘ deadlocks ’ which some public choice theorists think desirable because they will reduce the over supply of public services might well deny needy groups the services on which they depend . |
| 25 | On the " supply " side the parties will always be tempted to bribe the electorate and promise more than they can safely deliver after the votes are in the bag . |