Example sentences of "so they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've seen loads of rings like this , so they ca n't be worth much . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 3 | ‘ These people ca n't sell their homes because of the recession , so they ca n't separate and split their assets . |
| 4 | They have no money , so they have no accommodation , so they ca n't find a job . |
| 5 | But in the UK copyright lasts for 50 years , so they ca n't be sold here . ’ |
| 6 | It 's best to approach an animal with the wind blowing into your face so they ca n't pick up your scent . |
| 7 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 8 | Erm , you 've got that to tend with and erm on top of that erm , you ca n't ware of if you 've got a pass yes , I , you 've then have to er , get , you know , whether though it 'll be going to a and at the moment there suppose to be very , very low so they ca n't do that any more and then you 'll have to , the vet will then do the treatment for the animal , but again you do n't get the vet you 'll only get the training vet 's to do the job and then they reclaim from the R S P C A , so it , no way that they have n't got any funds . |
| 9 | They do n't have electrical power , so they ca n't use a telegraph . ’ |
| 10 | Then you slide the inner wall across and use it to pin them against the side of the cage so they ca n't move or fight . |
| 11 | As strawberries ripen , push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they ca n't rot on the soil . |
| 12 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 13 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 14 | I think one of the problems is they had a break in and had quite a lot of gear stolen , and that 's why they want a concrete roof , so they ca n't er get in through the roof . |
| 15 | The boats are designed with weights in the keel so they ca n't capsize . |
| 16 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 17 | Just to illustrate how important this thing is , you 've probably all come across and it really irritates me , you see people interviewing people on television and they 've got their clipboard there and they 've obviously got a prepared question so they ca n't falter and fine , that means they 've prepared it . |
| 18 | It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job . |
| 19 | That either they have n't been able to think about it very carefully , not looking at the real options , or have n't got an electric point , so they ca n't have an electric shredder , or whatever the appropriate way of dealing with the more sort of shrubby erm waste that they 're likely to have . |
| 20 | The gods had drawn them together , and together for 10 years or so they would make music , exploring the world and themselves , unharried by outside pressures , responding only to the more meaningful pressures of life and love . |
| 21 | If third-world countries could export more textiles , their need to sell their timber would be less desperate ; if Europe 's farmers were not protected , land values would be lower , so they would have less incentive to farm intensively . |
| 22 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 23 | Such a reformulated qualified defence would not encompass cases of excessive self-defence , since they may involve a genuine and unhurried misjudgment of the amount of force permissible , and so they would have to be the subject of a separate qualified defence . |
| 24 | They had been booked in advance on a quota basis by Čedok , so they would be paid for whether any one ate at them or not . |
| 25 | Investment income is exempted from the 9 per cent national insurance tax , so they would not be touched by Labour 's abolition of the £21,060 ceiling . |
| 26 | Nina wanted to keep holding hands , and hurried the sleeves over her arms so they would not be out of contact for long . |
| 27 | To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend . |
| 28 | But the grooves were very shallow by normal disc standards , and to reduce the chances of the stylus being thrown out of the groove , the records were made absolutely flat , and a full quarter of an inch thick so they would be sure to stay that way . |
| 29 | Public libraries form by far the largest sector of the library world and they have no association with any one group of user other than the general public , so they would all receive the benefit of any national or even international promotional campaign . |
| 30 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |