Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm er they will s think about whether they 've got enough , be enough room for the number of people . |
| 2 | But there were some things one did not think about because they were unimaginable . |
| 3 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 4 | Gandhi 's injunction is that a married couple should act as if they are unmarried , and treat each other as brother and sister . |
| 5 | Do signers have a clear idea of the separateness of different sign languages , or do they feel and act as if they are all basically the same thing ? |
| 6 | According to IBM , DFS — which enables an assortment of files on a network to look and act as if they were local — is up and running in the labs and is scheduled for beta test by the end of the first quarter . |
| 7 | But in fact those they sought to protect often did not act as if they were passive . |
| 8 | There are important questions in relation to housing policy concerning the extent to which a free market can operate and the extent to which public housing authorities should act as if they were private business concerns . |
| 9 | We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school : |
| 10 | It is these pedagogical concerns that linguists must appeal to if they want teachers to listen to them , by demonstrating how linguistic concepts and knowledge can help to explain or solve them . |
| 11 | There 's another in the keep would have done just as well , but seal or no seal , they 'd have wanted a better tale than I could think of before they 'd have given me the keys of the keep . |
| 12 | This made the dancers appear as if they were a moving frieze . |
| 13 | The return of Latin would make them feel as if they were experiencing something mysterious and exalted , something greater than themselves . |
| 14 | Most travellers will explain , like the writer and traveller Paul Theroux , that unless the journey has been difficult they do not feel as if they have been travelling . |
| 15 | Strange as it may seem , some people have more difficulty in handling or expressing warm , loving feelings than negative , angry ones ; or it may feel as if they have to keep a tighter reign on the loving feelings , which they perceive as making them more vulnerable to rejection and disappointment . |
| 16 | By tightening security , ‘ hooligans ’ could be kept out by students and other college residents would once again feel as if they were ‘ prisoners ’ . |
| 17 | Looking Nicolo in the eye only made her knees feel as if they were going to buckle . |
| 18 | Therefore it is only natural for the sponsors to indulge in a little nepotism and provide its Japanese audience with somebody they can identify with while they are enjoying a nightcap . |
| 19 | It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children . |
| 20 | Well you see Egilsay and Rousay had piers that they could land at and they were never used to be in the water . |
| 21 | The door , walls and ceiling should have a half-hour fire resistance — do they look as if they have ? |
| 22 | But now that computer animation looks so real , some advertising agencies are insisting that the images they pay For must look as if they have come from a computer . |
| 23 | ‘ They do n't look as if they 're seeing . |
| 24 | Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night . |
| 25 | While many tests may have high face validity — that is , they may look as if they measure a particular linguistic ability — this is not a sufficient justification for using test data as a basis for clinical or educational decision-making . |
| 26 | The armholes looked too short , the sleeves did n't look as if they would fit and the bust size was nowhere near the size that was required . |
| 27 | Indeed , one critic of the exercise considered that ‘ the circular was a device which managed to make LEAs look as if they were failing in their duties , and thus allowed the DES to take the initiative ’ . |
| 28 | Thus , although interest groups may look as if they are organized chiefly for public goods , in practice they are sustained by their ability to deliver selective incentives to their members which make joining worthwhile . |
| 29 | This they achieved by switching off their tacographs as they were loading making it look as if they were at rest . |
| 30 | This they achieved by switching off their tachographs as they were loading , making it look as if they were at rest . |