Example sentences of "that they [modal v] keep [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government employees were given the day off to swell the crowd , and Mr Hun Sen emphasised that only his party could guarantee that they would keep their jobs . |
| 2 | Louis promised to help the Poitevins recover their losses , while they handed over hostages as a guarantee that they would keep their side of the bargain . |
| 3 | Now Middlesbrough Council has told other landlords that they must keep their properties in order or else . |
| 4 | But the partisan warfare went on : Walter Long and his PPS , Sir William Bull ( who had been on the Conference himself ) , reacted angrily to complaints from the agents and suggested that the professional organizers wanted to keep the system as complicated as possible so that they could keep their pay and privileges . |
| 5 | One of the concessions Bevan made to the consultants in 1946 was that they could keep their separate private pay-beds in NHS hospitals . |
| 6 | In 864 a royal assembly at Pîtres near Rouen dealt with the problem ( without indicating how widespread it was ) of migrant wage-workers in vineyards : clearly some landlords were short of labour at least at harvest-time , and to persuade such migrants to return to their original farms were willing to reassure them that they could keep their earnings . |
| 7 | In fact , their necks are so mobile that they can keep their heads in the same position while a branch sways in the breeze underneath them . |
| 8 | We saw the obstacle course where the dogs learn to imagine they are six feet tall so that they can keep their blind owners safe from hurting themselves on low objects . |
| 9 | Indeed some editors of specialist columns and journals tell me that they like to receive good background material so that they can keep it to use as a reference for future articles . |