Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may for some reason go to a Mother and Baby Home for a short period before and after they have the baby , or even go to live with foster parents . |
| 2 | They may after all have been passing secrets to Soviet agents . |
| 3 | In the words of professor John Honnold : A further factor is that States feel more relaxed about harmonizing measures which do not threaten ( even though they may in some degree influence ) long-established concepts and traditions of their own legal systems governing domestic transactions . |
| 4 | However , we have tended to overlook the fact that they may in some circumstances be met in other ways . |
| 5 | One sole practitioner argued that ‘ private clients must take the risk of a business default by a solicitor as they must with any other business ’ ; whilst another commented that capping would be justified ‘ now that solicitors have been turned into a trade with the main considerations being commercial ’ . |
| 6 | Of course in order to be effective anti-viral agents they must at some stage be dependent on a viral enzyme to convert them into their active form , or they must selectively inhibit viral enzymes directly . |
| 7 | They must in some way make these their own — take them into their personal repertoire . |
| 8 | It is vital that they must by some means or other plant the seed of conscience in the young from the very beginning of life , and until some better means can be found , fear and reward must be available to parents for that purpose . |
| 9 | While many managers are increasingly concerned at recording unmet need , both how to do it and whether they should at all , he was confident Dorset has come up with a method which makes it a positive experience for staff and service users and , hopefully , avoids potential legal pitfalls . |
| 10 | Nearly all the foregoing are in some measure examples of transgressions against the laws of the country , and subject to punishment , but are rife mainly because the forces of law and order are stretched beyond capacity , and do not get the help they should from that all-important first line of defence against evil , the constraints of the individual conscience . |
| 11 | The light was spreading fast and if they were asleep in one of the rock shelters they might at any moment wake and stumble on Marian . |
| 12 | The stone buildings surrounding it seemed less solid in the moonlight , as if they might at any moment shimmer and disappear . |
| 13 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 14 | This means changing people 's way of thinking and working , maybe breaking down fences and getting them to share information they might for some reason be reluctant to divulge . |
| 15 | It then had to be left to his governors and his staff colleagues to make such use as they could of any combination of qualities which he revealed . |
| 16 | C.N.L. have , theoretically , one other alternative : they could at this late stage , without benefit of the P.C.A. documents , mount their own unaided inquiry into the police officers ' conduct and thus seek independently to obtain all the same evidence that the P.C.A. so painstakingly uncovered some three years ago . |
| 17 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 18 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 19 | ( 183 ) But she admired even more what came later ; how after she had ceased wanting to blot him entirely from her mind , to make him not to be , they had found that they could after all talk good sense and kindness to each other . |
| 20 | They 'd of more like I would of thought close King Staiton because Saint Gregory 's was a purpose built church |
| 21 | Were the cattle in Rousay and Wyre and Egilsay were they used to that kind of thing ? |
| 22 | They used to all walk round . |
| 23 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 24 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 25 | Members of the public , on the other hand , would speak to a judge as they would to any other knight or peer — Sir John , or Lord Smith . |
| 26 | Could n't really , stand out , yes , they did n't stand out as much exhibits as they would with another occasion something else . |
| 27 | ‘ Let us worry about that , ’ said the Captain , who knew exactly what would happen if nobody paid and that they would in all likelihood never find the body . |
| 28 | If they were assertive and asked for what they wanted rather than ‘ manipulated ’ , they would in many cases be more successful . |
| 29 | This rule was founded on a principle of policy , for if sailors were in all events to have their wages , and in times of danger entitled to insist on an extra charge on such a promise as this , they would in many cases suffer a ship to sink , unless the captain would pay an extravagant demand they might think proper to make . ’ |
| 30 | I doubt if they would in this well I would n't want them to come in the fog |