Example sentences of "[pron] they [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Reid ( 1986 ) identified seven causes of disruptive behaviour ( underachievement , the family , links between school and parents , peer group relationships , the gulf between the general public and teachers , schooling per se and teachers ) , I believe that he highlighted the very issues schools need to turn their attention to and over which they might have significant influence . |
| 2 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 3 | But I am convinced — from what I have seen and what my commonsense tells me — that more often than not they simply tilt towards the bait at a slight angle and suck it to their lips from distances up to nine inches , a process of vacuuming which they may repeat several times before attempting to swallow the bait . |
| 4 | Similarly , although many physically handicapped adults are extremely independent in their everyday lives , the AL of maintaining a safe environment is one aspect of living with which they may need considerable help . |
| 5 | The elderly , unemployed , the less skilled , single-parent families , larger families are all concentrated in council tenure because it is the only form of tenure to which they may have easy access . |
| 6 | Students have the opportunity to develop areas of interest with which they may have some familiarity from secondary education but they will also experience new attitudes , techniques , materials and concepts . |
| 7 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 8 | All CIS member states signed an agreement on a single defence budget into which they would pay fixed contributions to be determined by the Council of Heads of Government . |
| 9 | Ahead lay more normal days , during which they would experience more downs in proportion to ups and consequently discover the fickleness of supporters whose approval is conditional on success . |
| 10 | They would chat and flirt with the legionnaires , making them buy champagne and other expensive drinks , in return for which they would provide female company and , if they found the legionnaire attractive , they would sleep with them . |
| 11 | Despite the Soviet interpretation cited above , the ZOPFAN proposals still have not been defined with any precision by the ASEAN states and the mechanism by which they would limit Great Power involvement in Southeast Asia remains vague . |
| 12 | They see Caller Display as a service which gives them a window on the world , through which they can stop unwanted calls and increase their sense of security . ’ |
| 13 | Women have a natural link between the psyche and the physical , of which they can make valuable use . |
| 14 | Given that it is a central goal of the Committee to encourage a public policy on education which will operate to generate and sustain an organic national culture , the only concrete examples within contemporary popular culture to which they can refer this policy in a favourable manner are those which are sufficiently residual as to be unable to offer more than a minimal oppositional purchase . |
| 15 | Second , that fertility of these cohorts depends on the extent to which they can match these aspirations in their subsequent adult life , any shortfall in ‘ relative income ’ being met with responses to limit fertility through deferred marriage or smaller family size . |
| 16 | For all this many professions and other service providers still cast their eyes enviously at accountants and the apparent ease with which they can offer additional services to clients , thanks to the automatic access granted by audit . |
| 17 | Even the best sailors can be swept into them , apart from which they can cause all sorts of damage to your equipment . |
| 18 | These six activity books provide children who are beginning to learn English with a wide range of activities through which they can practise English grammar and vocabulary , and develop their reading and writing skills . |
| 19 | It is offering its 3,000 employees over the age of 50 a voluntary early retirement programme under which they will get full retirement benefits and a year and a half of extra pay if they leave the company and start their own companies in businesses related to IBM . |
| 20 | The Norman conquerors , in attempting to establish rights to land in England , undermined indigenous oral criteria for proof of ownership , by which they as newcomers were on weaker ground than native land owners , and set up centralised , bureaucratic procedures with emphasis on written documentation , records , cross-referencing etc. over which they could exercise greater control . |
| 21 | It means helping counsellees to look closely at their own emotions in order to decide whether they are necessary , or an on-going indulgence ( on the basis that certain people enjoy the ‘ benefits ’ of sympathy and concern , so actually make use of their social distress ) over which they could exercise more control if they wanted to do so . |
| 22 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 23 | What he meant was they might be able to come off the building sites , and fall into a featherbed job , one in which they could wear nice suits and drive fancy cars , in return for looking after one very rich old man 's ‘ interests ’ . |
| 24 | my Lord that , that must be right because that would only be the way in which they could give negative clearance , because the clause or the membership rules were inappreciable |
| 25 | They had employment merely for one year and no chance of employment in which they could make long-term plans for buying a house , for retiring and so on . |
| 26 | Nineteen said they would appreciate occasional seminars at which they could meet other house officer trainers . |
| 27 | It would mean cutting off an exclusive stretch of the A34 which they could use both ways . |
| 28 | Venetian diplomats were likely to demand every ceremonial honour to which they could assert any shred of claim , and to be very touchy when faced with any apparent threat , however slight , to their status . |
| 29 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 30 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |