Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole , drafts carry more weight in practice than they should in theory , simply because they represent the most up-to-date thought . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Since in general inflicting punishment may be costly to the non-reneging firms , it must be credible that they would in fact do so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |
| 17 | Officials merely provide factual material , as they would in answer to similar questions from an MP , drawing attention to any technical assumptions that have been made . ’ |
| 18 | Are they to take pride of place , as they should in ballets worthy of the name ? |
| 19 | The South Metropolitan undertook such maintenance as they could in Sutton depôt . |
| 20 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 21 | There is therefore , a far greater responsibility for originality placed upon them , as they will in future have to be leaders rather than followers . |
| 22 | And some management procedures can not work very well in M and E as they can in civils . |
| 23 | I think all the staff ought to be able to rely ( as they can in colleges of FE ) on this full-time professional service , particularly where there are nearly 1500 customers and 80 members of staff . |
| 24 | It is , indeed , an implication of attitudinism that induction and abduction can not be invoked in support of ethical statements as they can in support of factual ones . |