Example sentences of "they [modal v] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect now that you know I mean I they might still to move given to one or two of my family members , but basically I could more openly say you know that in fact I suppose my view in Britain but not in Australia but my view in Britain is okay , the Royal Family could continue to exist they must A pay taxes B I do n't genuflect to any of them and C we 've got ta put them in perspective they 're in which is they 're a tourist attraction erm you know but I and I can make those comments which would be met by a lot of Britons with hostility , people who would totally disagree with me and say well they are the Royals and you know bow , bow , bow , but others would agree with me and that is something that has changed over the last three decades it really has , it 's changed during , during my absence in Australia , it is something you know that I came back to and I mean I kept , I 've been back about three or four weeks and there 's a pro I mean there 's some delightful radio programmes here comedy , political comedy shows and there was one show I listened to and I had been back a couple of weeks and it was about erm the Queen had a P R issue and she had to sort of do something about it , so she decided they 'd have a public execution of Edward and they described Edward was a cream puff and they the Queen and and er Andrew and everybody else was on the balcony at er Buck House and the crowds are cheering and the rolled and the the execution . |
| 2 | Why , do you think they 'll a paedophile or something ? |
| 3 | Is it this , is it that , is it the next thing until they 're prepared to tell you what it is , that 's the way you ask them , cos they 'll no volunteer what it is , cos what you 're looking for is a final objection for them , right now you say oh that 's a load of rubbish that does nay what , but how can you sit and study that and you learn how to use it customers , right , on the objection which is the hardest objection for any sales person to deal with , you know yourself |
| 4 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 5 | when I say ‘ I am cold ’ I may just mean I am cold and it may not be a statement about my view of myself with regard to society and my particular stage of middle age crisis and so on and so forth , although , you know , given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous emphasis on |
| 6 | middle-age crisis and so on and so forth although you know given a certain number of intelligent people they could no doubt build an enormous |
| 7 | When they had described all that they could the film was started again and they watched the next five second section , and so on until an entire film had been described . |
| 8 | Aware , as she most certainly was , that she could not be pleased to see him — grief , if past experience was anything to go by , they 'd no doubt be going for each other 's throats before the meal was half over — Leith returned to the kitchen and prepared some salad . |
| 9 | Had their judgments on waste been issued by GATT , they would no doubt have provoked uproar from environmental activists . |
| 10 | They would no doubt have been astonished , of not appalled , if they had been able to glimpse the bitterness and pain of the long voyage that lay ahead , In some ways the exile on which the Shah was now embarked echoed not only his first exile in 1953 , but even that of his father , Reza Shah , before him . |
| 11 | He knew he would be assured of company there with no talk of weddings , and they would no doubt offer him a drink . |
| 12 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 13 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 14 | ‘ Firms look on maternity leave just as they would a skiing holiday . |
| 15 | It is one of Robin Child 's primary aims that everyone should learn to be visually literate , to learn to read a picture as they would a book . |
| 16 | So if somebody died they would they would the body or or make the coffin and |
| 17 | And then they would er they would The tramp coles then you would er put this rope up over that side , and then you 'd put one over that side , you see , and that was that would be safe for a long time . |
| 18 | This will give me better control over any fish I may hook , for they will no doubt try to charge into the lilies on either side of the swim . |
| 19 | These teams will need to feed into the making of the School Development Plan ; they will no doubt be expected to carry out much of it and be involved in the monitoring and evaluation process . |
| 20 | If either of them did nothing ( and they were under no obligation to do anything ) , then they will no doubt be accused of failing in their duty . |
| 21 | They will no doubt be helped in making this decision by counselling itself , and the empathy that should exist between counsellor and counsellee . |
| 22 | The Western Isles council are presently considering the proposal , but in their present financial straits following the BCCI collapse , they will no doubt be more interested in saving face with jobs than saving their unique landscape heritage . |
| 23 | Once BNP and Dresdner have tied the knot , they will no doubt reconsider their relationship with Kleinwort Benson , a British merchant bank in which BNP has a 4.5% stake but , apparently , little interest . |
| 24 | erm , and there are two aspects , that they can a stimulant and whilst I 'm , I would agree that many women , it is part of dealing with problems in their lives , coping with stress , that part of that is also withdrawal symptoms from the nicotine , and |