Example sentences of "thing that [modal v] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy . |
| 2 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 3 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 4 | In the vocabulary of people in the retail trade , equipment means wallets being emptied into tills , especially if the purchase of that equipment is the only thing that will ensure they will live to come back and buy more . |
| 5 | The only thing that will make them change their attitudes will be knowing someone with AIDS and watching them decline . |
| 6 | It is the only thing that will stir out sleeping brethren , the only thing that will make them fight and not cooperate . |