Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 2 | When those same pensioners understand that blanket commitments of that type will erode the extra money available to help the poorer end , they may take rather a different view . |
| 3 | Even if some sounds are similar to some in your own language they still need to be practised , as they may differ just a bit , and that sometimes makes it even harder to get them sound right automatically . |
| 4 | Candidates must demonstrate their ability to use , at an employable level , the skills of audio transcription in a practical office situation : they may use either a typewriter or word processing equipment . |
| 5 | When we 're away though next week , I think they 'll do quite a lot of stuff inside and But they 're doing some for The same team are doing some friends of ours on Main Road and of course most of the people are down there . |
| 6 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 7 | But whoever it is , there 's no doubt they 'll have quite a job on their hands . |
| 8 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 9 | They might make quite a thing of it . |
| 10 | ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’ |
| 11 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 12 | because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them . |
| 13 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 14 | It turned out to be so big that he invited people specially to help eat it , and then it proved so salty that they could manage only a little of it . |
| 15 | The house was n't visible from where they stood , in the cool beneath the branches , and even further along , where the path turned , following the contours of the shoreline , they could see only a small part of it , jutting up , white between the intense green of the surrounding trees . |
| 16 | They formed a group so that they could put forward a collective case with Ewan Veitch doing most of the research , Yuel McMurray , assisting . |
| 17 | They formed a group so that they could put forward a collective case with Ewan Veitch doing most of the research , Yuel McMurray , assisting . |
| 18 | These olives — their trunks warped , gouged , carbuncled , abrasive to the touch — seem indestructible , as if they could survive even a nuclear winter . |
| 19 | there 's a four year , you think they 'd fit quite a lot into that , cos a lot of it is holiday . |
| 20 | It was yeah they 'd come quite a long way actually . |
| 21 | in exchange and they used to do quite a trade in , cos a lot of them were quite skilled at making toys . |
| 22 | ‘ Even though we shall not necessarily admit it , ’ said Feradach and Nuadu had seen that they would serve even a bastard scion of the Wolfline before any other creature . |
| 23 | and they 're , obviously they would be , tend to be other children with mothers then so they would like perhaps a play facility there . |
| 24 | and that obviously they would be tend to be other children with mother 's there so they would need perhaps a play facility there and other children who goes to the E N T clinic can go to the not just go to the outpatients casualty |
| 25 | No doubt the offenders were heartened by the fact that if caught , they will serve only a few years . |
| 26 | Furthermore , for the man in a hurry , they will put together a special selection and take it to his home or office . |
| 27 | But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention . |
| 28 | However , since new additions comprise under one per cent of the total stock each year , they will have only a trivial effect on the distribution of housing types in the near future ( it should be noted that conversions of dwellings are not included in the figures given above ) . |
| 29 | This is why my own experiments have paid relatively little attention to the effects of such substances , and they will play only a small part in the unfolding story of the chapters that follow . |
| 30 | They will take approximately a week to reach this stage , so that while any traces remaining in a carpet could give rise to problems , a solid floor can be easily disinfected to kill them before this stage is reached . |