Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the custom in Egypt , on the Friday after a body had been interred , for the women of the family to visit the tomb , where they would break a palm branch over the grave and distribute cakes and bread to the poor . |
| 2 | Fellows from universities who fought in Spain are being given jobs in Intelligence or Censorship where they could do a lot more damage as traitors than a squaddy like I 'd be . |
| 3 | Employee career development was flexible , and management encouraged individuals to pursue their interests and extend their skills in areas where they could make a contribution to the business . |
| 4 | Do n't store old newspapers or other inflammable materials under the stairs , where they could fuel a fire and cut off your primary escape route . |
| 5 | Inside , where they will spend a lot of time in this northern climate , the zoo has thoughtfully specified sleeping cubicles , scramble nets , climbing ropes and in particular , their log climbing frames . |
| 6 | On the matter of hedge cutting debris could I ask you please to ensure that your contractor removes the hedge clippings and does not leave them where they will cause a hazard to cyclists . |
| 7 | All 22 Premier League chairmen meet in London today where they will hear a call from Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein to reduce the League to 18 clubs . |
| 8 | The best place for many of these is the more peaceful setting of the mainly invertebrate aquarium where they can add a dash of colour and movement and feel better at home . |
| 9 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 10 | Or they may fire a warning shot . ’ |
| 11 | These contrary results using implied volatilities may be due to the form of option pricing model used , or they may reveal a difference between ex ante and ex post prices in measuring price volatility . |
| 12 | My constituents , er many of them will be concerned personally because they may have a relative in the army , now that we 've got ground troops out there , or they may have a relative who 's lived there or , or you know , God forbid , some of , some of them may have relatives who , who are hostages . |
| 13 | Or they may yield a piece from another planet , such as Mercury . |
| 14 | They may refuse to respond , on the grounds that they do not know what tiv means ( see Carey , 1978 ) ; they may ask what tiv means , and having been told to guess , offer a response ; or they may select a response without querying tiv . |
| 15 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 16 | The lack of evidence of greater efficacy and acceptability of serotonin reuptake inhibitors means that their adoption as the drugs of choice in major depression may be premature , although they may have a role in subgroups of patients in whom other treatments are contraindicated or have failed . |
| 17 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 18 | Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply . |
| 19 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 20 | There are some whose fear of instability is so great that they would prefer a return to the old divisions . |
| 21 | Only six stated that they would offer a translation of the documents . |
| 22 | Shortly before signing the non-aggression accord , however , the two sides announced that they would hold a meeting at Panmunjom on Dec. 26 , in order to discus the issue of nuclear weapons within the Korean peninsula . |
| 23 | Two thirds of those questioned said that they would visit a betting shop in the evening . |
| 24 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 25 | He and Warnie , for example , had decided that they would erect a memorial window to their parents in St Mark 's , but it was a decision they quickly came to regret when the Lewis , Hamilton and Ewart cousins all weighed in with suggestions of what should go into the window . |
| 26 | The brokers are scheduled to start again from scratch today , but there is talk of rival firms telling the Kuwaitis that they would like a go . |
| 27 | The BBC would , at that stage , have had a generalist — the standard habit when I arrived in the field was that they would have a generalist producer , researcher , or somebody writing the script , cobbling together the best knowledge , whether the producer or researcher had worked on archaeology last time , flower-arranging next time , what have you after that … |
| 28 | The House of Lords upheld the award as a punishment to both author and publisher , as there was evidence that both were reckless about the truth of the defamatory statements in the book , and indeed hoped that they would cause a sensation so that the book 's sales would increase . |
| 29 | It was always assumed that they would get a job , a home , a wife and children , in that order . |
| 30 | I was prepared to accept the fact that they would kill a man or boy with as little compunction as I would shoot a buck . |