Example sentences of "the [noun sg] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 2 | The pomeshchiks derived their livelihood in part from an irregular salary paid while on active service , but primarily from the income they could extract from the peasants settled on their farms . |
| 3 | In the daytime they would shoot erm with their apparatus , the short strips of film , in say the streets of the towns where they were , and then in the evening they would use the same apparatus adapted to project the films onto a screen . |
| 4 | Squawking madly in what appeared to be a family squabble over the direction they should take , they suddenly closed ranks , as if by order , and formed a perfect vee behind their leader . |
| 5 | For Clare Short and Jo Richardson , this is undoubtedly accentuated by the support they can give each other in a world where all the benchmarks are male , where rivalry is high and trust low . |
| 6 | Instead , the teacher reinforces the responsibility which she wants the children to exercise over their own learning , and the support they can offer to one another without needing to turn to her for confirmation . |
| 7 | Runners are generally suffering at this stage ( 23.5 6o 24.5 miles ) and will need all the support they can get . |
| 8 | If only bluff King Hal had been around yesterday , I think the tribunal might have co-opted him to pronounce the sentence they 'd love to carry out on Lamb : ‘ Off with his head ! ’ . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | and after say three o'clock in the afternoon they 'd do activities , work connected with |
| 12 | In the afternoon they should have a lecture and alternative football with sports practice . |
| 13 | I 'm working hard , with colleagues , to provide a fair education system throughout the district and I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , when the Tories talk of petty interference , it 's interpreted by our head teachers and schools as co-operation , consultation , our listening ear , yes , Councillor and Councillor , they 'll listen and if they 've got the money they 'll assist our schools . |
| 14 | Because the money they can get for this mixed paper must be a pittance . |
| 15 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 16 | The Japanese , on the other hand , would need all the money they could lay their hands on to rebuild . |
| 17 | He said that he much preferred the money they could afford for clothing to go onto the boys ' backs , and onto her . |
| 18 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 19 | If this could be shown to be the case they would have been entitled to a share purchase order from the Court . |
| 20 | One , application could be made to the court that Mr the landlord is unreasonably withholding consent to the lease , if the court finds that this is in fact the case they will permit the assignment of the lease to you , not withstanding the landlord 's objection . |
| 21 | They did so without any regard for the serious injury they could cause or for the damage they could inflict . |
| 22 | In their excessive respect for the text they may fail to bring their own ideas and their own critical attention to what they are reading . |
| 23 | Partnerships will need to become knowledgeable about this situation and if they come to share the anxiety of many working in the field they should voice their concern . |
| 24 | From the height of the rooftop they could see right over to the Kālādika , where one patch of sunset still remained , splashed across the sky , like a spilled pot of paint . |
| 25 | In a culture more and ore unified by the mass media , it is more absurd and anachronistic than ever to separate the middle-class from the working-class , the potentially academic and scholarly from the rest , in terms of the teaching they will receive at school . |
| 26 | They would do his bidding , more or less , and for the present they would have to cope with Anne . |
| 27 | In the wild they would have been culled . |
| 28 | In the chest they may have a dry racking , teasing , hacking cough and so sore and worse ( < ) motion ; it is similar to Bryonia and Phosphorus . |
| 29 | Women seem unable to ever quite give up their wish for a penis , and they usually begin analysis with the hope they will acquire one during it . |
| 30 | Alan from Upton , Wirral , has now written to the court in the hope they will cut the fine . |