Example sentences of "that they [vb mod] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | As well as the letters that poured in , the other guests on the programme had all said privately that they would do what they could to help ; Ian Hislop , the editor of Private Eye , had already printed a Friends of John McCarthy ad for free , and Gerald Scarfe had agreed to design a programme cover for the upcoming Benefit . |
| 3 | They trundled in , promising that they would do nothing to distress or intimidate poor little Miss Harker . |
| 4 | When they heard this they cried out with one accord that they would do his bidding , and go out with him and fight under his banner , for certain they were that by his good fortune the Moors would be overthrown . |
| 5 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 6 | Try out the PA system on site ; do n't take the management 's word that they 'll do it for you . |
| 7 | And I had to say that they 'll do it at Brownies . |
| 8 | Now the opportunity had once again been given to them , she felt that they must do nothing to jeopardise the future . |
| 9 | Set up in 1920 by actor Leslie Howard and director Adrian Brunel among others , with the hope that they could do something about ‘ raising the standards of British films ’ , the company had only enough capital to produce six short comedies . |
| 10 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 11 | It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this . |
| 12 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 13 | ( 4 ) The sales information , including the information about prices , was necessarily acquired by the defendants in order that they could do their work . |
| 14 | They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines . |
| 15 | Knowing that she turned the peeping Toms on with her performances — and that they could do nothing about it as they sat there , transfixed by her sex and her flagrant use of it . |
| 16 | Several leaders of the Liberal Party " were known to favour a Popular Front to move the Government , but acquiesced in the view that they could do nothing about it unless the Labour Party changed its attitude " . |
| 17 | The regions are far too big and complex to be handled from Detroit and even if they were foolish enough to believe that they could do it more effectively — which they ca n't — they would be crazy to try . ’ |
| 18 | So convinced were the farmers that in July they delayed the trebbiatura , the threshing of the grain , hoping that they could do it under Allied administration ; they thought they would probably get 700 lire more for each sack . |
| 19 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 20 | In his 1927 Manifesto to intellectuals Barbusse argued that they should do everything possible to help the birth of a new society . |
| 21 | After all these years of watching birds of prey in flight , I still find that they will do something completely unexpected . |
| 22 | Now , as far as Conservatives are concerned , I speak myself and I 'm sure everyone here would offer the same sympathy as the the government has promised that they will do something about this . |
| 23 | They have done that before , and the hope must be that they will do it again . |
| 24 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 25 | They ask you to go out with them , they buy you a drink or two — and then they think that they can do what they want ! |
| 26 | They derive their power from being taken for granted , so that they can do their destructive work without themselves being checked for validity or reality . |
| 27 | I 'm still thinking about B S 5750 where we have to make sure that not only we know what training we have given people , that we also continue to give them , future appropriate training so that they can do their jobs , and so compliance by B S 5750 is not just trapping history it is also making sensible plans about the present and the future . |
| 28 | Whereby erm we do n't end up actually doing the things for them , but we show them the way that they can do them for themselves . |
| 29 | The Ministry therefore feel that they can do nothing to restrict its spread , and will take no further action . |
| 30 | The Government wish that such increases were not happening , but realise that they can do nothing about them . |