Example sentences of "[det] [conj] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 2 | Some of those primitive men are so good at this that they can exactly imitate the different animals , and even other human beings . |
| 3 | The team will be working on items for this and they will also present two items at an International Festival of Movement to be held in Edinburgh next April . |
| 4 | You could fire a starting pistol next to some and they would barely look up . |
| 5 | Or , put another way , are the Powell conditions too tough — tough not just for Americans , but for those , like Bosnia 's Muslims , whose plight is such that they can plausibly look only to America for salvation ? |
| 6 | The capacity of CFS Aeroengines is such that they can now offer their services on a worldwide basis and are set to take a larger slice of the redial engine business by offering a ‘ one stop ’ service from mags , to props , to accessories , to whole powerplants . |
| 7 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 8 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 9 | To control and manage communications is something that politicians and governments , both east and west , work hard to master — much as they may publicly deny it . |
| 10 | Eventually the men at the long table sat back in a happy state of having eaten and drunk as much as they could possibly hold . |
| 11 | Anna 's energy , too , proved inexhaustible ; she was determined to see as much as they could possibly crowd in — even the little church where Robin was reputed to have married Maid Marian . |
| 12 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 13 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
| 14 | … to find and provide one third part of the entertainment on next St James ' Day each unless they shall severally pay the usual fine of £15 each in lieu of serving the said officer at the next court … |
| 15 | discount will pay more than they would otherwise do . |
| 16 | On the " supply " side the parties will always be tempted to bribe the electorate and promise more than they can safely deliver after the votes are in the bag . |
| 17 | Instead , they mark with a ‘ D ’ many more than they can actually use . |
| 18 | I think they eat more if they can just help themselves a bit at a time when they want it . |