Example sentences of "say they [vb mod] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the police say they 'll be ready if they decide to return . |
| 2 | The model tells us that 0.238 of poor respondents say they would be prepared to break the law ( the baseline ) . |
| 3 | This finding is replicated in figure 13.4 ; overall , 0.215 more young people than old people say they would be prepared to break the law . |
| 4 | Secondly , such models can be used to predict the proportions who say they would be prepared to break the law . |
| 5 | Its owners say they 'd be pleased to allow a memorial on the site . |
| 6 | Norman 's neighbours say they 'd be sad to see the face go . |
| 7 | They say they 'd be willing to go back to help rescue the injured victims of the fighting . |
| 8 | A joint venture between the American Mobile Satellite Corp and Cruisephone Inc is bidding to provide cheap telephone service to marine users : using American Mobile 's 70-foot satellite , to go up next year , the companies say they will be able to provide service at around half the price of Intelsat . |
| 9 | If they order the couple to quit , the Smiths say they will be homeless , and unemployed , because they 'll have to sell off their animals . |
| 10 | He says they may be worried about reactions from friends or family and the money may help . |
| 11 | He says they may be able to exchange their tickets but what he wants to know is where has all the money gone ? |
| 12 | He says they must be scared . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , people in market-research panels up and down the country had said they would be delighted to buy a paper like that . |
| 14 | A spokesman said : ‘ Many rang in on car phones saying they would be late . ’ |
| 15 | Despite the gloomy initial traffic forecasts , Alastair Morton , the British co-chairman of Eurotunnel , rejected suggestions that fares would be forced up , saying they would be competitive with ferry and air fares . |
| 16 | ‘ 3i looked at the business and said they might be interested in buying an equity stake , ’ says finance director Penny Smith . |
| 17 | Erm but then she rang back later , I do n't know whether she contacted room bookings to try and get me a dining hall , but she said they might be able to have their dinner in the S C R. So that 's alright , I 'm okay . |
| 18 | They said they might be able to get before us though , did n't they ? |
| 19 | Earlier this year fans said they would be keen to see Joanna Lumley in the title role . |
| 20 | A lawyer speaking for the families said they would be appealing against the Place of Safety orders , and that the appeal would be heard the following day in Kirkwall Sheriff Court . |
| 21 | Commenting on Mr Hutchison 's decision Professor Raymond Miquel the Council Chairman said they would be sorry to see him go and paid tribute to the contribution he had made to Scottish sport over the past 26 years . |
| 22 | Travellers said they would be late for work and miss meetings . |
| 23 | ‘ It was important to involve our employees and one of the interesting factors to emerge was that 88.8 per cent of them said they would be proud to work for a company with an environmental policy . ’ |
| 24 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 25 | Around half of the new dads questioned said they would be happy to see their partner breastfeeding at home . |
| 26 | Nearly a third said they would be unfaithful if they thought they could get away with it . |
| 27 | And path e reminds us that some old and poor respondents said they would be prepared to break an unjust law ; the value of coefficient e is therefore 0.172 ( figure 13.6 ) . |
| 28 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 29 | A quarter of the boys said they would be prepared to talk to a teacher about sex as opposed to only one in 10 girls . |
| 30 | Four of the six schools said they would be prepared to take positive steps towards ‘ searching them out ’ . |