Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , even though they may for professional purposes , guarantee their subjects ' anonymity in return for access , they nevertheless stress that behind the ‘ sources in Whitehall ’ or ‘ the people of Hicktown ’ there are indeed real people ; thus establishing both their veracity and their morality . |
| 2 | Columbia and Venezuela have yet to achieve maturity though they may in due course . |
| 3 | Indeed , although regulatory offences in the abstract may be regarded as of minor consequence they may in certain cases have drastic results . |
| 4 | " Perhaps they 'll by annoyed if we do n't have another cup . |
| 5 | If 5% , let us say , of the total of first-preference votes are given to minute parties and frivolous independent candidates , there is no good reason why they should secure even the minimal representation to which they might in strict theoretical proportionality be entitled . |
| 6 | I think if you got taught sex education in maybe , smaller groups , you know erm if they could with individual teachers |
| 7 | They could for certain do |
| 8 | Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well . |
| 9 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 10 | Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre . |
| 11 | And it was er They used to great pride in their in their er stacks because they had to make them as neat as they could and er well built , so that if the So that w that was good for the To keep the the wind keep them dry . |
| 12 | It it 's just a league of nations there and every shop is black people in Brixton , but it were a lov , they used to able to get on a a two , three , a fifty nine , or a hundred and fifty three to Oxford Circus on the bus you was there in twenty minutes ! |
| 13 | At low prices , i.e. at large rates of discount , ceteris paribus , holders will be willing to hold more bills than they would at low rates of discount , i.e. at high prices . |
| 14 | It should describe how the characters , usually non-aristocratic or less educated , express moods , emotions and actions as they would in real life . |
| 15 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 16 | The courts could systematically substitute their choice as to how the discretion ought to be exercised for that of the administrative authority ; they would in other words reassess the matter afresh and decide , for example , whether funds ought to be allocated in one way rather than another . |
| 17 | What that in some areas somebody would n't get an application whereas that they would in other areas ? |
| 18 | The logic of this is defensible enough where there are members of the public to be terrified , but it was subsequently held that the offence need not take place in public , on the grounds that bystanders might become just as terrified in private as they would in public . |
| 19 | The composition and terms of reference of urban development corporations will be changed immediately and they will in due course be wound up in an orderly way . |