Example sentences of "[subord] they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he said that they could perhaps take a look round to see were there any secluded windows anywhere or any openings where they might just squeeze through . |
| 2 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |
| 3 | One carries a rope and he frets about its purpose , whether it 's required , where they could possibly have used it . |
| 4 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 5 | The coloured golf ball-sized stocking fillers , known as Jelly Balls , can be thrown at walls where they will then stick . |
| 6 | This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment . |
| 7 | Other animals described in this book have occupied a specific ecological niche where they can quietly pursue their own speciality without embarking on any spectacular radiation in the manner of the ammonoids . |
| 8 | Any readers who want to collect aluminium cans can either send them to me or contact local scrap metal dealers and take them there , where they can then donate the cash to a charity of their own choice . |
| 9 | They are fools and liars and will tell you that everyone is entitled to his own opinion , except they will probably say ‘ his or her , ’ so that you do n't feel left out , being a young , firm , tanned and bouncy woman with a mind of fathomlessly inventive depravity , even if you do n't know it yet . |
| 10 | Left : Most wide waterway craft were built with a more spacious cabin and many boatmen lived on board although they may also have kept a house on shore . |
| 11 | Periodic tenancies , although they may ultimately exceed three years , are also covered by this section and may take effect orally : Kushner v Law Society [ 1952 ] 1 KB 264 . |
| 12 | Despite their transboundary effects , however , these problems are not necessarily global in impact , although they may ultimately require global solutions . |
| 13 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 14 | Some patients are helped by knowing this is available although they may never use it . |
| 15 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 16 | Recalls Gerrard : ‘ Ray and Diana were n't married then , although they would dearly like to have been , because they were citizens of the Republic . |
| 17 | He pointed out that although they would automatically have carried out such precautions , water would always be found in the deeper parts of the mine . |
| 18 | And she knew , although they would never have dreamt of telling her , perhaps did n't even admit it to themselves , that they were afraid of her . |
| 19 | The receptors are linked to the same area of the brain as the eyes , and so the fish can probably visualise these electric patterns , although they would only form a crude , shadowy image . |
| 20 | Interestingly enough , it is also a point with which all serious anthropologists and historians would now agree , although they would perhaps hesitate to spell out , as Engels and Leach have done , its implication . |
| 21 | It was quite spontaneous , for the Germans instigated nothing although they would sometimes co-operate in an elementary way by allowing wood for goalposts or permitting the construction of a theatre . |
| 22 | But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time . |
| 23 | In both cases , the girls would have been brought up in a genteel atmosphere , although they might originally have come from very poor families . |
| 24 | From the standpoint of more worldly considerations , the signing of the concordat soothed the irritation of those Catholics who did not like the trend towards closer relations with what they saw as Protestant — that is , heretic — America ( although they must also have recognized that the Catholic political and economic lobby in the United States was large , rich and influential ) . |
| 25 | Two wrongs do not make a right , of course , although they must necessarily shift the balance in how we might approach such an inalienable moral precept as the ‘ general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 26 | Much more autonomy is given to subsidiary companies although they must still meet key financial and policy targets . |
| 27 | From January 1995 all new satellite television services would have to broadcast using an improved satellite transmission standard known as D2-Mac ( an intermediate standard to HD-Mac — see p. 38506 ) , although they could simultaneously broadcast in one of the existing standards ( PAL or SECAM ) . |
| 28 | However , such x i j could be basic in an initial BFS and , although they will eventually leave the basis , it is usually computationally advantageous to start with a BFS in which no basic variable x i j has = K . |
| 29 | They need not have a common purpose , although they will frequently do so . |
| 30 | Their resale potential is , however , undermined by their standardized production , and , although they will probably hold their value better than most Indian , Chinese , Pakistani or Balkan items , they are unlikely to develop high investment potential over the longer term . |