Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on a few occasions have they gone this far , where they suggest changes they will often be limited to ‘ undertakings ’ or promises . |
| 2 | From these thrashing heights they would then shin ninety feet down to the decks again on single frayed and rusting wires . |
| 3 | Oh , you get the few stalwarts who come year after year , but for the majority it 's their one and only chance to be pampered , to see places they might otherwise never see . ’ |
| 4 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 5 | Closely hobbled with tightly drawn ropes they can only move by laborious hopping with arched backs … |
| 6 | ‘ It is easy to understand , although some austere persons elaborately refuse to understand , why these crowds in the industrial towns pay shillings they can badly afford to see twenty-two professionals kick a ball about , ’ JB Priestley wrote after being taken to a local derby march between Nottingham Forest and Notts County . |
| 7 | Genetic engineering has reached a point of such sophistication that there are clear benefits to be gained by releasing from the laboratory living organisms upon which have been conferred characteristics they could never have acquired through the normal processes of evolution or selective breeding . |
| 8 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 9 | ( Many managers ca n't be bothered to do any research and therefore make decisions they can hardly support . ) |
| 10 | Must states , as Evans ( 1979 ) argued , ‘ continually coerce or cajole the multinationals into undertaking roles they would otherwise abdicate ’ even as the pendulum swings towards liberalisation ? |
| 11 | Some of these regulations may not promote efficiency but be justified on paternalistic grounds : workers are held not to be the best judges of their own interests and so are prevented by law from taking risks they would voluntarily undertake for money . |
| 12 | They compelled officials to investigate matters they would much prefer to keep out of : all for the administration of a basically unworkable rule . |
| 13 | They would just like to keep on playing , they claim , and if they have children they would probably use educational methods similar to their father 's . |
| 14 | This is the tendency for the polytechnics to emulate the universities by concentrating primarily on advanced course provision , especially degree courses , thereby rejecting students they would previously have accepted and transferring elsewhere many of the courses they previously offered . |