Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 21 , after an extra day of negotiations , eight out of the 12 republics reached agreement ( Ukraine , Azerbaijan , Georgia and Uzbekistan saying that they would sign at some future point ) , allowing the deferment of principal repayments on debt due at the end of 1992 , with an option to extend the deferral after March 1992 . |
| 2 | It was undemocratic and the Government were not telling the truth when they said that they would look at all the submissions in a fair and honest manner . |
| 3 | The exploitation of a range of alternative contractual and working time arrangements permits firms to secure precisely the number and types of such secondary workers that they might require at any time . |
| 4 | So , basically , what they 're saying there 's all these things that they 'll provide at each stage of his journey so that if care is n't right he knows what channels to go through to complain . |
| 5 | Even the chairman of the National Westminster bank has conceded that they should look at that issue . |
| 6 | and they can look at this anytime . |
| 7 | And they can look at the horn and they can look at these things and they can look this is weld which is the herb that 's used to produce the green the yellow of the green . |
| 8 | And they used to moan at each other : ‘ Your system sounds different from my system … |
| 9 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 10 | And first for the Combers , we will bring them down From eight groats a score unto half a crown , If at all they murmur , and say t is too small , We bid them choose whether they will work at all ; We 'll make them believe that trading is bad ; We care not a pin , though they are ne'er so sad . |
| 11 | Spending departments were to carry out reviews of programmes by questioning existing commitments and to ask whether they should exist at all and not only how they should be carried out ( see Pliatzky , 1982 , p. 99 ) . |