Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gifts made prior to the introduction of inheritance tax will not be assessed more harshly than they would under CTT , had it continued . |
| 2 | In short , they get less than they would with insider trading . |
| 3 | On the whole , drafts carry more weight in practice than they should in theory , simply because they represent the most up-to-date thought . |
| 4 | It was almost as if they considered him to be as much a victim of his government as they were of theirs , as if he could no more be held responsible for Reagan 's actions than they could for Gaddafi 's . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was n't that the programmes were bad , but they did not actually choose to cover different topics from male current affairs teams , while the whole hypothesis had been that they would in fact cover different topics — that there were uncovered topics in social policy and the rest of it . |
| 7 | Since in general inflicting punishment may be costly to the non-reneging firms , it must be credible that they would in fact do so . |
| 8 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |
| 9 | Papers ( 1834 ) xxvi 9 , that they would in future allow a person refused admission to appeal to the judges and that they would be bound by their decision : see Holdsworth 's History of English Law , vol . |
| 10 | Five Democratic Party ( DP ) members of parliament ( MPs ) joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) and announced on April 21 that they would in future sit in the whites-only House of Assembly as independents ( the ANC not being registered as a political party ) . |
| 11 | In practice , you might , for instance : ( a ) Broaden your essay 's conclusions , so that they could in principle be applied to other books , or an author 's work as a whole . |
| 12 | So banks hang on to business that they should by rights lose , but find it hard to win new good-quality business . |
| 13 | The logical consequence of this is that they will on occasion play unattractive parts ! |
| 14 | But just as some marriages can at times feel suffocating , so they may at others feel uncomfortably distant . |
| 15 | This suggests that the maxims do indeed derive from general considerations of rationality applicable to all kinds of cooperative exchanges , and if so they ought in addition to have universal application , at least to the extent that other , culture-specific , constraints on interaction allow . |
| 16 | Cross there , by night , and they might with luck even capture the man . |
| 17 | The same is generally true of diurnal raptors , although they can also take larger animals because with their stronger beaks and talons they are able to overpower and kill larger and more powerful prey , and they may on occasion hunt cooperatively ( Bednarz , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | On the other hand , used aright , it can help very much in the understanding of mathematical operations , because far more many and widespread examples can be dealt with very quickly , and they can for example erm get a feel of the result of multiplying or dividing or whatever it , it is , numbers of quite different sizes . |
| 19 | They know that efficient reading is essential for all subjects other than physical education and they will in consequence watch very carefully the primary school 's success with their children 's capacity to read . |
| 20 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 21 | There 's some people at the flat out there and they used to bricks at the windows and things like that . |
| 22 | Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery . |
| 23 | Capital gains are a better proxy for the full benefits from interlocking holdings , since they ought in principle to absorb the value created in all the businesses involved . |
| 24 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
| 25 | ‘ Common mistakes are to feel they 've got to live near a beach , when they can in fact drive visitors there from many other areas in half an hour , ’ says Jonathan . |
| 26 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 27 | No ordinary person wants them any more , though they will for years to come provide talking points for the chattering classes . |
| 28 | At her cafe table the two men can sit as they would at home at their kitchen tables . |
| 29 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 30 | But it is clear that companies should have a strategic approach to the issue just as they would with R&D . |