Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , Hemingway writes , ‘ doing coolie labor for a top wage of $45 a month and they have been put down on the Florida Keys where they ca n't make trouble . |
| 2 | ‘ They wo n't live where they ca n't get food and comfort . |
| 3 | He still feared polarisation and the creation of monochrome dioceses where clergy opposed to women priests would leave dioceses where they were ordained , and women ordinands and deacons would leave dioceses where they could not become priests . |
| 4 | They may be parents or they may only have letters after their name , but what they have in common is this : they know that intellectual perfection and the criteria for measuring it are chimeras . |
| 5 | There will be times during a good investigative session when they need to draw several quick diagrams perhaps , or they may suddenly see connections between things which they can not yet explain but need to indicate immediately . |
| 6 | Just as with a cash ratio , the authorities could impose a statutory liquidity ratio or they could merely allow banks to set their own prudent liquidity ratio . |
| 7 | Although they can not add points to their own club they can take points away from the others by finishing ahead of their rivals . |
| 8 | It did n't actually exist , although they 'd probably get swarms of people prepared to join it just now if they tried . ’ |
| 9 | It seems that people tend to be more demanding of themselves than they would ever let management be . |
| 10 | General Publius announced to his soldiers that they would soon get proof of the truthfulness of his prophecies : a red wolf would come and eat him up . |
| 11 | It is reported that Akbar , who was an emperor in India from 1542 to 1602 , ordered that a group of children be brought up without any instruction in language , to test the belief that they would eventually speak Hebrew , the language of God . |
| 12 | They had crossed the market , the shopping centre , passed the churches , chapels , religious meeting rooms , fighting to outdo each other and against the countless bars ; even hoping through the wave of religious revival , and the example set by the Queen herself , that they would eventually withdraw sinners from the flames of hell-fire and place them in the arms of the Lord . |
| 13 | She hoped that they would n't wake Peter . |
| 14 | But the Lord Chancellor 's Office who oversee Swindon Crown Court , would only say that security had been reviewed , but that they would n't reveal details . |
| 15 | I saw that they would both need instructions for baptism and marriage . |
| 16 | what have to pay that they would probably have dividend and they would pay that for you and you would have to pay them back . |
| 17 | Derick Wilson , the Labour councillor who lobbied fellow members to reject the licencing restrictions , claims that they would badly damage Edinburgh 's tourism image . |
| 18 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 19 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 20 | Shahnawaz Tanay , former Defence Minister and failed coup leader [ see p. 37314 ] , who persuaded soldiers that they would not suffer reprisals . |
| 21 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 22 | It was agreed that they would not see Minton for a while . |
| 23 | All the Iraqi people with whom we met assured us that they were eager for negotiations in order to avoid war , but said that they would not take orders from George Bush , and that none of the parties should insist on any conditions to the holding of these negotiations . |
| 24 | Alongside the bogwood safe plastic pipes were laid out of view ( safe meaning that they would not release toxins into the water ) . |
| 25 | A three-day " non-official " workshop meeting in Bandung , Indonesia , on " managing potential conflicts in the South China Sea " ended on July 18 with agreement from Brunei , China , Malaysia , Taiwan , the Philippines and Vietnam that they would not use force to settle their conflicting claims to the Spratly Islands . |
| 26 | Several had been told , or simply assumed , that they would not survive adolescence , or would only live for maybe 20 or 30 years . |
| 27 | Mr Brown recalled numerous election pledges by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , and the Prime Minister that they would not raise taxes and added : ‘ These were calculated , cold-blooded and cynical statements made simply to win an election campaign . |
| 28 | Collor 's defence lawyers also confirmed that they would not call Farias ( who had been widely expected to turn on Collor , since Collor 's defence evidence was expected to centre around directing all the blame at him ) . |
| 29 | Is n't it a disgrace Madam Speaker , that the government should duck the opportunity to make a clear statement on a sixty , on an increase which is the sixteenth since they made the promise in nineteen seventy nine that they would not increase prescription charges . |
| 30 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the Prime Minister also made the position categorically clear on 6 April , when he said : ’ No honest Government could give a categorical assurance that they would not increase VAT . |