Example sentences of "to [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order that the hypothetical choice of loans offered to them would have at least some roots in people 's own experience , the size of the loan was in each case matched to the size of loan which people said they would consider taking out in practice . |
| 2 | Being kind to them would be the worst sort of sentimentality , or , as Ritchie delightfully puts it , ‘ a mere hypocritical formula to gratify pug-loving sentimentalists , who prate about a nature they will not take the trouble to understand ’ ( 1976 : 183 ) . |
| 3 | Signals , sitreps and diaries of the time contain no hint that a massacre had taken place , or that Tito 's Yugoslavs at Bleiburg had in any way breached their assurances to Brig Scott , and this may be regarded as significant in assessing the extent to which 5 Corps subsequently continued to accept Yugoslav assurances that prisoners surrendered to them would not be indiscriminately killed . |
| 4 | ‘ My advice to them would be that if you ca n't win as an amateur , you wo n't do it as a pro , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 6 | Not to be aware of the differences of demand and not to pay heed to them would amount to disregarding the purposes and moral cost of adapting to change . |
| 7 | Just how petty , greedy and self-interested others really are will be made perfectly clear to you during the next few days and your reaction to them may well be to decide to turn off the charm and the money supply forthwith . |
| 8 | The language presented to them may be a genuine record of native speaker behaviour , genuine , that is to say , as textual data , but to the extent that it does not engage native speaker response it can not be realized as authentic discourse . |
| 9 | They may not exist or access to them may be refused . |
| 10 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 11 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 12 | To them may be added differences in fertility levels and patterns , in prevalence of contraceptive use and in organized activities to regulate fertility . |
| 13 | Even if the technological aspects are fully understood , the application of the law to them may still perplex . |
| 14 | A phone call or a letter to them may set your investigations off on a completely new heading and give you further experts whose evidence would be helpful to you . |
| 15 | Perhaps more time labouring them and giving a more a briefer introduction to them may be , erm a more in-depth introduction ? |
| 16 | Well anyway remember us to them wo n't you ? |
| 17 | So we , we will have actually written to them wo n't we ? |
| 18 | This means that if a ruler 's commands did not deserve obedience , resistance to them might be justified . |
| 19 | If they would be offended by an offer of money , the occasional ( money-saving ) gift to them might be very welcome . |
| 20 | Loyal and moderate as the noble constitutionalists seemed , any concessions to them might open the way to federalism , separatism and even more dangerous tendencies . |
| 21 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 22 | Certainly when the population was declining , one would expect that tenants might be hard to find and that concessions to them might be necessary , either in the form of a rent reduction or a cut in the entry fine , or in an extension of the period of the lease . |
| 23 | Institutional rearing and other adverse childhood experience is liable to produce a feeling that one is in the hands of fate , thus anything to increase the young person 's social problem-solving skills and their belief in their own ability to control what happens to them might be helpful . |
| 24 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 25 | The maid who opened the door to them could not take her eyes off the great fat woman in the biscuit straw hat with big cloth roses on its brim , and the cape that just covered her shoulders and showed an expanse of blue cotton bosom , the like she had never seen before . |
| 26 | The press delighted in attacking the " Georgia Mafiosi " for any indiscretion , and Carter 's loyalty to them could be embarrassing in a man dedicated to high moral standards . |
| 27 | In Howard E. Perry & Co . Ltd. v. B.R.B. it was held that the defendants ' refusal to allow the plaintiffs to enter their premises to collect goods which belonged to them could not be justified by their fear of intensified industrial action . |
| 28 | You could give it to them could n't you ? |
| 29 | These factors — the noble connections of churchmen and the extent of their involvement in the secular world — meant that the king 's attitude to them could be determined not only by the importance of their spiritual role in a society in which religion mattered , but also by an intricate web of personal political allegiances and aspirations deeply rooted in lay affairs . |
| 30 | ‘ What you did to them can not have done much to put right what their own families had already done . ’ |