Example sentences of "they [verb] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To allow them to flourish could lead only to pain — even greater pain than she was feeling in this moment , though she could hardly imagine anything could be greater . |
| 2 | Examination of the ways in which candidates are selected in Ireland and votes for them solicited will show that this putative liberty is in practice still more narrowly restricted . |
| 3 | Is it not scandalous that ministerial offices and the House have televisions provided by the taxpayer , yet bedridden patients who want to watch television to help them to relax must pay ? |
| 4 | A hastily-assembled six-man Iraqi delegation arrived in Turkey yesterday to discuss the plans , which they fear could affect rice and wheat crops in central and southern Iraq . |
| 5 | FIFTEEN dentists ' practices are to consider resigning from the NHS over proposed government funding cuts they fear could lead to bankruptcy . |
| 6 | POLICE swooped to crush a soccer forgery racket they fear could spark a Hillsborough-style tragedy . |
| 7 | Should governments be free to ban imports of things they fear will become extinct ? |
| 8 | This dinner they planned must capture the living memory of every lucky guest . |
| 9 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 10 | On the way , men working in a gang on the building site they passed would call out to him , ‘ Hello , Ken , ’ they would call . |
| 11 | The slow-crawl music they produced might 've been linked with hardcore , but it was really ‘ the end of rock , the dying throes ’ . |
| 12 | Anyone who thinks they may have become liable to tax since they registered should tell their bank or building society to cancel the registration as soon as possible . |
| 13 | The kind of things that they make may reflect ideas that they encounter in stories , rhymes or visits . |
| 14 | The choice they make will depend in large part on their learnt values , but there is a second level of explanation , concerned with influences we mentioned earlier ( p. 10 ) — practical constraints on action . |
| 15 | Children are fascinated by how things grow , so the new series of books from Dorling Kindersley entitled See How They Grow will have them enthralled . |
| 16 | Many have been taught that in a relationship they have no right to make demands on a partner ; to say clearly what they want may lose his affection . |
| 17 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |
| 18 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 20 | Some studies they suggest may have failed to detect an effect of parity because they did not concentrate on this risk period . |
| 21 | The goods they supply must fit the description used in any advertisement or packaging . |
| 22 | His notion of what ( or even when ) the middle ages were remains extremely vague ; his conviction that the values they embodied could provide an answer to the Condition of England question was correspondingly intense . |
| 23 | In most cases , the environments , climates and conditions they encountered must have been very different from what they had known in Ayrshire . |
| 24 | The functions they provide may include a selection of the following : electronic mail , fax , telex , word processing , records storage and retrieval ( both individual and shared ) , diary scheduling ( people and facilities ) , internal reference information , spreadsheets , access to other applications , and the importing and repackaging of data from other applications . |
| 25 | Some counties take the view that the cricket they provide should take the form that their members want rather than allowing Test cricket to take precedence . |
| 26 | No longer will some have power over others : positions of authority and the obedience they command will disappear . |
| 27 | Their anger has been fuelled by plans to build a THIRD giant store on their doorstep , which they say would threaten the very fabric of their town . |
| 28 | Yesterday , the EC observers in the conflict areas of Yugoslavia made it clear that they were not in favour of rapid diplomatic recognition of Croatia , which they say would wreck the prospects for negotiating a settlement of the war and increase the chance of hostilities spreading to other parts of the collapsed federation . |
| 29 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 30 | He and other activists say time is now running out for the union ban , which they say will end after the election , because both Labour and Liberal Democrats have pledged to re-introduce union rights . |