Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb mod] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Are they to take pride of place , as they should in ballets worthy of the name ? |
| 11 | The South Metropolitan undertook such maintenance as they could in Sutton depôt . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | There is therefore , a far greater responsibility for originality placed upon them , as they will in future have to be leaders rather than followers . |
| 14 | And some management procedures can not work very well in M and E as they can in civils . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |