Example sentences of "[modal v] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or must they remain part of the ‘ mass ’ , in other words the corps de ballet , because they are needed to create the proper atmosphere , state the location , suggest the mood and very often respond to whatever is taking place ? |
| 2 | His mother says : ‘ Why , oh why , must they put these poisonous berries in colours so tempting to children ? |
| 3 | How long must they stay there ? ’ |
| 4 | Can these changes stem from enlightened rethinking of principles or must they follow a collapse of the EEC and the present economy ? |
| 5 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 6 | Just as selection criteria must be reasonable , so must they be rationally applied . |
| 7 | But how much more imposing must they have been when their eye sockets were equipped with staring eyes of black obsidian and white coral . |
| 8 | It is a case of children should not waste their time reading The Dandy , nor must they interrupt us adults as we reminisce about Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat . |
| 9 | How quickly must they organise their own retiral ? |
| 10 | Can the classical doctrines of the Trinity and the incarnation continue to serve as focusing and shaping theology for today , or must they give way to some quite different approach ? |
| 11 | Not only must they care for distressed and disturbed young people , but they must do so under a cloud . |
| 12 | As they have sown , so must they reap and reap , even when the poppy flowers of passion have withered in their hands , and their harvest is but bitter tares , garnered in satiety . |
| 13 | ‘ Must they lie there in the rain ? ’ |
| 14 | Can they accept this oral undertaking by a third State or must they , in accordance with the Vienna Convention , demand a written acceptance ? |
| 15 | In the British mind the distinction between constituency MdBs and list MdBs will seem sharp : must they not divide into two classes , first and second ? |
| 16 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 17 | Nor at the other extreme must they be technically efficient robots . |
| 18 | If the babies will not feed unless a mother figure is near , how must they feel when their mother suddenly falls dead in front of them , blasted by a submachine gun ? |
| 19 | But must they ? |
| 20 | Can maths teachers be entrusted with drawing inferences , trends etc. from significant data , or must they automatically stick to anodyne data which will offend no one but will automatically remove true significance from their work and lead to many students being bereft of motivation ? |
| 21 | Really , he thought in disgust , must they even cash in on Christmas ? |
| 22 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 23 | The following points should be noted about partial offers : ( 1 ) The offeror and its concert parties must not buy shares in the target during the partial offer period , neither must they , or any new concert parties , purchase shares for a period of 12 months following a successful partial offer without the Panel 's consent ( Rule 36.3 ) ( although consent will normally be given where the partial offer has resulted in a holding carrying less than 30 per cent of the voting rights ( note 2 ) ) . |
| 24 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 25 | What the hell must they think ? |
| 26 | Because the way the English drive , on the wrong side , with the brim — ’ and to illustrate her point , Madame put a hand up to her right eye , ‘ with the brim comme ça they can not see the oncoming traffic ! ’ |
| 27 | And one of the main advantages of these very compressed and arduous courses is that they give students approaching drama school entry an opportunity of seeing what will be required of them should they gain a place at drama school . |
| 28 | O'Carroll sees such positions exemplified by the protagonists ' refusal to accept that certain therapeutic abortions already permitted in Ireland were actually abortions and by their predictions of social chaos should they fail in their fight : ‘ Hence phrases such as ‘ the opening of the floodgates ’ , ‘ the thin end of the wedge ’ , ‘ the slippery slope ’ , ‘ the permissive society ’ , and ‘ the abortion mentality ’ ’ ( 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 29 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 30 | Which England should they hold up as a pattern , a reasonably true pattern ? |