Example sentences of "[subord] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 A bit of security of employment so they can sort of sort out for an holiday .
5 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
6 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 .
7 BBC bosses ordered prostitutes out of a posh hotel — so they could film actresses playing hookers .
8 The only gunfire we heard was from the army rifle range across the hill , and sometimes they would bring tanks up on big wagons so they could practice on the moor .
9 Powerless to stop the violation , the peacekeepers then watched Croatian Serbs break into UN-guarded storage areas to remove their heavy weapons so they could retaliate. — Reuter
10 Truly my living words could vindicate me ; ask Helen , if they would not. , The necessary complement to the epistolary picture of his Oxford life is his own book Oxford , published three years after he came down .
11 The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment .
12 After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them .
13 If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals .
14 I feel that teachers must be educated , if they can education us .
15 It is an important skill because even experienced pilots do occasionally make approaches which are far too high and which can be redeemed if they can side-slip quickly and accurately .
16 It 's very difficult until they can sort of reactions a bit quicker
17 Tourists come to Edinburgh to enjoy the delights of the Old Town , Holyrood Park and the Crags and not because they can bevvy up , create noise and nuisance until after 3am , ’ she added .
18 It also has to figure out how to take it to market , yet officials still claim no decision 's been reached on whether they 'll OEM it at all .
19 Before they could strap it up , it had vanished too .
20 On their side the Turks taxed when they could areas which were formally outside their territory but which were accessible to the border-guards which they , like the Habsburgs , maintained all along this hazy frontier .
21 People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard .
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