Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 2 | The fee is about £300 plus VAT excluding transport costs — or they can re-enamel the bath in situ . |
| 3 | Or they could mill it by hand . |
| 4 | Or they could fork to the right , up Once Hill , past the rectory and on to the steep , narrow road that wound over the downs to Badstoneleigh , off which the entrance gates of Sea House opened . |
| 5 | Women 's weak labour-market position is a source of disadvantage to women from which only employers benefit , since it enables them to pay women workers less than they would men . |
| 6 | They had too many people out ; there was a good chance that they would trip over each other . |
| 7 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 8 | Reports said that they would number 90,000-100,000 in the first two years . |
| 9 | Harry and Fleury conferred about this problem and decided that they would club together and see if they could afford to buy some hermetically sealed provisions when there was an auction , though with the prices that food fetched now in private barter they were not very hopeful . |
| 10 | And you get the feeling that they 'll sort of go back to school and college or wherever |
| 11 | A mother otter will bring a half-dead fish and give it to her young to play with in a pool so that they may practice the dives and swoops that are needed to be a successful underwater hunter . |
| 12 | Now in , in the early stages you certainly want to encourage as many people from this base to join , when the development , the movement gathers pace it 's possible to say right we possibly w there 's some , sort of the wealthy peasants we do n't really want , they 're the ones who prospered under the old scheme of things , they were the ones who had some power and influence and er by even drawing them into the association there is a danger that they may sort of assume the lead or take an active role which would be detrimental , which would negate the movement and try and make it er less revolutionary and more lawful , they would go back to sort of reform of the old system rather than the overthrowal |
| 13 | Not but what ‘ t is trouble enough that they must needs be gone , leaving us with this madman on the other side of the moat . |
| 14 | After some weeks without Red Cross parcels , people began to arrive early at meals so that they could size up and take the largest of the scrupulously rationed helpings of potatoes , or the thickest of the apparently identical slices of bread . |
| 15 | Scottish Widows was punished for allowing greedy insurance brokers to sell unnecessary insurance to customers so that they could pocket huge commissions . |
| 16 | Before 1918 electors could have more than one vote , provided that they could quality in different towns or counties ; it was now proposed by Unionists that the qualifying area in boroughs should become the constituency rather than the borough itself . |
| 17 | Even the freeholders in the fields — who were willing to have enclosure so that they could farm more efficiently or sell land for building — were helpless in the face of the burgesses who might have no land but who hoped to get a piece in time , or who already held these rights to graze their cattle and sheep . |
| 18 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 19 | We must sit back and say how awful everything is , blame the Government and say that they should hand out more money to the regions to assist them . |
| 20 | If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June . |
| 21 | The aim of introducing these magic bullets into the sick body is that they will help do the work that the body itself would do if it were well . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're confused and disorientated and as time goes on , the risk is going to grow that they will strand themselves on land because they wo n't be feeding and will become progressively weaker . ’ |
| 23 | Now what they 're saying is that , what they said is activist action learn best when they get the opportunity to experience new sort of problems , situations , opportunities when they 're doing something quite new when they 're sort of involved in very much you know here and now activities when they 're sort of like business games , exercises , role plays , team tasks that they can sort of get you know really get involved with themselves then there 's lots of action and they 're quite short and sharp , so can move on to something else . |
| 24 | The main disadvantages , apart from cost , is their considerable weight and the fact that they can chip . |
| 25 | the er the bigger one the half A three , it erm they are meant really to be targeted for people coming through that they can hand information to . |
| 26 | Processors have made it clear that they will need to recruit non-producing quota holders so they can hand on production capacity to contracted suppliers who already rely on regular leasing to maintain output . |
| 27 | A bit of security of employment so they can sort of sort out for an holiday . |
| 28 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 29 | Brian Grant believes that clients have become more sophisticated , so they will pressure agencies to improve the quality of their services , at a time when the advertising cupboard is pretty bare . |
| 30 | BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers . |