Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other requirements for keeping leather corals , apart from current and light , are much the same as for other coelenterates ; well-filtered water with phosphate and nitrate at levels as low as possible and no fish that would eat or damage them . |
| 2 | Community regulations and certain provisions of the founding treaties ( such as Article 30 of the EEC Treaty on free movement of goods and Article 85 of the same treaty on competition ) have direct effect , which means that they may be relied on directly by any citizen without the need for any intervening national measures to ‘ receive ’ them and indeed without any possibility for national measures to exclude or modify them . |
| 3 | Reappraisal of Planning Permission — all existing permissions should be reassessed according to the same criteria as above , and authorities would have the power to rescind or modify them . |
| 4 | Then you can paint or cover them to match the colour of the flowers you 're going to put in them . |
| 5 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 6 | When you cut the lupins down try not to shake or knock them too much , because this will spread the mildew spores . |
| 7 | I still meet research managers from other businesses who feel that their companies do n't really understand or want them . |
| 8 | One solution that government has used is to replace or override them with more compliant organisations such as the urban development corporations referred to above . |
| 9 | It must relate directly to the facts in issue in a case or be relevant to those facts in that it tends to prove or disprove them in some way . |
| 10 | They walked out into their new life , and Clare did n't know whether to envy or pity them . |
| 11 | She could no longer admire or respect them . |
| 12 | There was unemployment going about and the man that had a certain job at making certain things were n't to keen to show the apprentice what to do or give them the recipes . |
| 13 | Do n't coddle or curb them |
| 14 | How these banks set about merging will make or break them |
| 15 | If France wanted good relations with Russia his full title ( which he carefully recited ) must be used in all future letters , for it was the duty of friends " rather to augment reciprocally their titles and qualities than to diminish or curtail them " . |
| 16 | It will be necessary to confirm that all restrictions have been observed and if they have not been observed , to confirm that consent to vary or discharge them has been forthcoming . |
| 17 | Those preferring to have them collected , or to take or send them individually , were mostly older people , and people in lower socio-economic groups , and people who — when they were talking about being so short of money that they would have to arrange a loan — thought in terms of a relatively small amount of money . |
| 18 | Do do these criteria operate independently or do they all have to be met to be acceptable ? |
| 19 | Well do they like or do they stick , stick the thing round , round their arm |
| 20 | But no way would we want or expect them to fund state education . ’ |
| 21 | We will never know what happened during that operation because , like most English people , we suffer from excessive politeness with figures of authority and we do n't question or harass them when their explanations seem superficial . |
| 22 | You can decide whether you wish to buy , lease or rent them . |
| 23 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 24 | Many Englishmen remained in France and joined the bands of soldiers who made their services available to whoever would lead or employ them . |
| 25 | It is enough to recall that Ricardo 's labour theory of value , on which it depends , is generally held to be fallacious in its assertion that the price of goods or services is solely determined by the amount of socially necessary labour required to produce or provide them , and so ignores the cost of other inputs and the effect of demand . |
| 26 | This is entirely consistent with their view that people 's interests are what they say they are , and that interests are of political significance only when people organize to advance or defend them . |
| 27 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 28 | They are fairly small , usually flat against the head , and far from being able to swivel or cock them , we can barely move them . |
| 29 | Fathers who , for example , induce their daughters of this age to fellate or masturbate them would thus become liable for incest . |
| 30 | I 'm making her kick , trying to get her to shake or swat them off , and the last thing I need at this point is for her to panic , in which case I can certainly kiss the whole blessed contract bye-bye . |