Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 2 | It was the Edinburgh man 's only success from four attempts , and with Nick White failing with four attempts earlier in the game , the Scots squandered opportunities that should have won them the game comfortably . |
| 3 | Dr Piperno studies phytoliths — small pieces of silica that plants lay down in their tissues to discourage animals that might want to eat them . |
| 4 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 5 | So erm the mechanisms of defence are the means that the ego uses to stop itself being worried by any , anything that might seem to , that might seem to throw them . |
| 6 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 7 | Local authorities that could have taken them before can not now do so . |
| 8 | Given the complexity of many of the objects , and the almost endless possibilities of treatment that could have befallen them , the scientist needs the collaboration of the art historian , in addition to a very wide experience of antiquities and knowledge of the technical processes of the past , in order to reconstruct as much as possible of a particular object 's background history . |
| 9 | More seriously , the possible repatination of an otherwise quite genuine piece has to be carefully considered in authenticity studies , and demonstrates again the importance of a close acquaintance with antiquities generally , and an especial awareness of the potential vicissitudes that could have befallen them . |
| 10 | Without economic revival , the Conservatives have been hard-pressed to identify a single reason that would justify giving them another five years in office . |
| 11 | When they reached the sixth form all the ones that would have called them names had left . ’ |
| 12 | They teemed with wonders : individuals blessed with attributes that would have made them , in this , the Fifth Dominion , fit for sainthood , or burning , or both ; cults possessed of secrets that would overturn in a moment the dogmas of faith and physics alike ; beauty that might blind the sun , or set the moon dreaming of fertility . |
| 13 | Sometimes his patients lacked the kind of knowledge that would have enabled them to interpret the experience as ‘ sexual ’ at all . |
| 14 | But because the unit has yet to be completed , they were unable to join a timeshare exchange scheme that would have enabled them to take a family holiday in Florida at Easter . |
| 15 | Again the Mirror could have offered each of them a solution that would have saved them time and money . |
| 16 | When those who had difficulty considered subsequent questions on training many were able to identify alternatives that would have allowed them to attend . |
| 17 | Maniguet was questioned by the police on his arrival in Sydney but again they were frustrated by lack of evidence that would have allowed them to detain him . |
| 18 | The three chief contenders for the leadership of the Socialist Party , when the ailing Andreas Papandreou hands it over , all tell you sensible things that would have got them drummed out of the party ten years ago . |
| 19 | It would have involved his consortium ploughing between £10m and £15m into the troubled Eagle as part of a recapitalisation that would have left them controlling 29.9 per cent of Eagle 's equity . |
| 20 | All the clan from six to sixty were up on the hill before dawn , ready to drive the deer that would help feast them . |
| 21 | The city — it is the city that will have to heal them , with knifeblade and automobile , nightstick , gunshot . |
| 22 | In this way she can judge when some children are ready to join a group game , enabling her to present them with some small problem that will help to lead them one step further in their mathematical thinking . |
| 23 | Because the present British government are so totally encompassing , they 're such a dead hand , they are doing so much damage that the Liberal Democrat 's have got to be seen as a party that can help beat them or indeed , entirely on its own beat them . |
| 24 | Some photographs offer internal evidence ( fashions , transport , and so on ) that can help to date them . |