Example sentences of "[verb] they [modal v] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food There is no point in producing a list of microwave ovens without giving the detailed instructions so that those using them can improve their performance . |
| 2 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 3 | Finally 5 Corps stated to Eighth Army : " it would appear that unless these formations are taken over by us as formed bodies and disarmed they will force their way across border as individual bandits plunder the country disorganise economic life our zone and threatened our security . |
| 4 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 5 | Chelsea say they 'll announce their new manager in the morning . |
| 6 | Police say they 'll treat her remarks as a formal complaint . |
| 7 | Police say they 'll treat her remarks as a formal complaint . |
| 8 | A farmer and his family who live in a wooden shack on their organic farm say they will lose their home and their livelihood if they are n't allowed to build a proper house . |
| 9 | It seems perverse , to say the least , to argue that criminalising some forms of behaviour ensures their survival and future usefulness ( or , conversely , that not criminalising them would guarantee their extinction ) ! |
| 10 | Of course , I 'd broken the rule by moving both point cams , so no amount of re-reading them would position my pattern correctly . |
| 11 | For example , Zambian government officials claimed that a story ( in the Times of Zambia , June 23rd 1970 ) to the effect that clothing factory workers believed they might lose their jobs as the result of a new duty on imported cloth , was the work of clever lobbying by clothing manufacturers and retailers . |
| 12 | Some girls have the relationship with their mothers that if anything happens they can tell their mother . |
| 13 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 14 | If the bigger societies feel their savings are threatened they would raise their mortgage rates to compete . |
| 15 | Often patients , particularly newly diagnosed people , were unsure about an aspect of their diet or treatment but did not feel they should bother their GP or hospital . |
| 16 | Floy had said they would do their best , but Fenella and Caspar ought not to rely on it too much . |
| 17 | But Sir George Gardiner , chairman of the right-of-centre 1992 Group of Tories , and Brent North MP Sir Rhodes Boyson have both now said they will throw their hand in with the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | ‘ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible , because it is not the sort of thing we like to have hanging over us . ’ |
| 19 | I want to leave by about ten tomorrow so I 'll get on to a garage first thing in the morning and hope they can fix my car straight away . ’ |
| 20 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |
| 21 | Those who have missed the target altogether just hope they can find their arrows . |
| 22 | These units will fear they may lose their contracts and close . |
| 23 | But they were told they must park their bikes 300 yards away . |
| 24 | I commend you , by the way , for insisting on arriving early , for as the set time approaches they will tighten their surveillance at their ports of entry . |
| 25 | We must take note of trends and changes , we must recognise pressures as pressures , we may need to broaden our concepts and tolerance in marital issues and family concerns : but at least we can be fairly sure that marriage and the family as we know them will outlast our time . |
| 26 | If I had refused … they threatened they would take our parents ’ lives . ’ |
| 27 | You buy lots of brazils , peanuts , and walnuts because you know they will make your festive tablepiece . |
| 28 | That is why Labour and the Tories stand in areas where they know they will lose their deposits . |
| 29 | Well just when the land 's redistributed they would give their own families disproportionately more land . |
| 30 | How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way ? |