Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fit visor guards on video recorders so their fingers ca n't get trapped . |
| 2 | The empty oil-drum was awkward to handle : their fingers could not find a grip . |
| 3 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 4 | For example , an employer who , without any attempt at an individual medical assessment , inaccurately pre-judges epileptic applicants for positions as being unable to perform the job , will have treated those applicants as disabled , even though in fact their impairments might not limit their major life activities at all or only to the extent that others react adversely to them . |
| 5 | Private individuals looking for a stockbroker to advise on or manage their investments may not know how to start . |
| 6 | Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures , so stiff and tense their buds wo n't open . |
| 7 | Their molecules may not penetrate the blood-brain barrier . |
| 8 | Crafty debtors might escape their obligations by crossing the Channel and going to live on the continent where their creditors could not reach them , like the Duke and Duchess of Teck . |
| 9 | And those banks that lent more often had the worst of reasons for doing so : namely , the need to keep afloat borrowers whom their creditors could not afford to see sink . |
| 10 | subordinates who must coordinate their activities can not agree about how things should be done ; or |
| 11 | Their houses may not suit everyone 's taste , they could have started life as a lighthouse or a fire station , but you ca n't deny they are different . |
| 12 | Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands , for their legs could not bear them . |
| 13 | Yet , as Choate 's account also shows , even wise men and their money can easily be parted by sharp consultants , who can pass through the green baize door knowing that their clients can not peep through the keyhole . |
| 14 | Although their pulses can not penetrate the surface of the water , they reveal the tell-tale ripples of swimming fish . |
| 15 | But as they walked into the dining room , which can accommodate up to 450 guests , their eyes could not have failed to take in the splendour of it all . |
| 16 | But because their kids ca n't go abroad then they get a letter through to say like you know they are going on camp would they be interested . |
| 17 | It was a burden their funds could not bear . |
| 18 | Of regular smokers , 71 per cent thought their dads would not disapprove of smoking , compared with 8 per cent of regular smokers who thought he would disapprove . |
| 19 | Their readers could not get enough of Diana ; her face was on every magazine cover , every aspect of her life attracted comment and anyone who had ever known her was tracked down to be interviewed by the voracious media . |
| 20 | I went on to say that local authority support for public libraries which simply put books with a homosexual theme on to their shelves would not constitute promotion of homosexuality . |
| 21 | But just because Club 18–30 is a great place for meeting people and making new friends of either sex , it does n't mean to say that those people who already have someone special in their lives ca n't come and join in the fun as well . |
| 22 | With this construction their descendants would not come within the section . |
| 23 | Our chaps ca n't see their chaps , but their chaps ca n't see ours . |
| 24 | They want to understand their children , but the kids purposely look for things their parents ca n't understand . |
| 25 | But their parents wo n't let them . |
| 26 | Sometimes girls are there because they are very young or they are homeless , sometimes it is because their parents can not cope at home with the responsibility for them and a newborn baby , and in other cases a home takes in and assesses girls whose ability to look after their baby is in question . |
| 27 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 28 | Neutralizing involves giving the employee work where their weaknesses can not cause problems and where they get a chance to use whatever strengths they possess . |
| 29 | Since immigrants from hot countries have settled here for generations , surviving the cold , icy blast , the hybrid ‘ English , ’ with the blood of many nations in their veins will not turn a hair at the cooler climate or the cooler neighbours . |
| 30 | Where we believed their ideas would not work , we have put forward our own alternatives . |