Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [verb] to do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the Pioneers of the Consumers ' Movement supposed that they were abandoning Owenite objectives , still less that they intended to do so . |
| 2 | This state can be induced in about three-quarters of the population ; the rest for some unknown reason can not achieve it even if they wish to do so . |
| 3 | In the case of remand prisoners there is often no opportunity to work , even if they wish to do so . |
| 4 | In 1696 an Act of Parliament " for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen " had provided that mariners , irrespective of rank , should pay 6d. per month out of their wages to support the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich which should act as an alternative to the parish relief which few sailors were able to claim even if they wished to do so . |
| 5 | It is possible , of course , that the depression or anxiety is felt in response to the physical symptoms — rather than being directly caused by the food itself — or that the person experiences certain mental responses to certain foods simply because they expect to do so . |