Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [prep] they [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Not surprisingly , they all reach a stage when they must try to manage their growth and their organisation more rationally or many of them will burn out and their company could get into deep administrative trouble .
2 The Sharrock family know they 've had a lucky escape ; any one or all of them could have been injured , or even killed , when someone threw a brick at their car from an overhead footbridge .
3 As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade .
4 ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct .
5 She had planned to get over to her mother 's by the afternoon , but the day had been so rare that neither of them could bear to finish it .
6 It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy .
7 It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy .
8 If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ?
9 He knows that neither of them will utter a word till they 're hanging by their balls from Tower Bridge .
10 She agreed to try a behaviour chart and identified that each of them should sit in their own chairs , eat their own food quietly , and not interfere with each other .
11 They had agreed that each of them should have carte blanche , no questions asked nor opinions given , unsolicited .
12 Accordingly , the parties agree that each of them will accept my decision on the matters referred to me hereunder as conclusive and binding and that neither will bring any action or proceeding or make any claim against me as expert relating to or arising from the performance of my duties hereunder .
13 But putting up more candidates increases the danger that each of them will contend as an individual rather than as a member of a team : it makes the campaign harder to co-ordinate .
14 They were told also that half of them would face redundancy .
15 The windows are interesting , with their association with the wool trade , though there is some speculation that some of them may have been brought from another house .
16 If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide .
17 I 'm sure that some of them will help me . ’
18 The thing about the Paddies is that some of them can pass as English if they 've been brought up here .
19 At the end Christopher took matters in hand and commanded Francis to instruct his guests that some of them must volunteer to wash up .
20 I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money .
21 This does n't necessarily mean they were practising infanticide , although some of them may have been .
22 ‘ I 'm almost sure they said Brittany , although some of them might have gone to Bordeaux .
23 23.1 If any dispute or difference arises between the Parties hereto in connection with or arising out of the Agreement and provided that either of them shall have given notice in writing thereof , the Parties shall try to reach an agreement by negotiating in goodwill and at the highest level .
24 Getting Ace on his side had helped : the Doctor had an attachment to the woman that went deeper than either of them would admit .
25 The contact was more than either of them could bear , and it was n't to do with the heat .
26 Their partners are making dollars faster than either of them can count , some of it in black market trading .
27 ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray .
28 There are 27 women deacons in the Chester Diocese at the moment and diocesan spokesman , Rev Tim Barker , said he anticipated that many of them would want to be ordained .
29 The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class .
30 Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way .
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