Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [modal v] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Reports said that they would number 90,000-100,000 in the first two years . |
| 8 | 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 . |