Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , 80% of female personal service workers said they could not design and plan important parts of their work ; 96% said they could not decide their starting and finishing times ; and 63 % said they could not initiate new tasks during their work . |
| 2 | And what really bothers me is when people say they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 3 | ’ Too many people say they would n't shoplift because they might get caught . |
| 4 | But Bonsai World staff say they wo n't give up without a fight . |
| 5 | Funny actually they could n't , when the rescue people came they could n't see where the damage was because of the dust . |
| 6 | Parents are now having second thoughts : ‘ I 've heard people saying they would n't have chosen to put their children in school , but their friends were going for it and they were afraid they would miss out , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ Some people reckon they could n't distinguish between the mascots and the players before kick-off , and that 's a tribute to the youngsters who took care of Liverpool . |
| 8 | Most people find they can not tolerate sugar after that period . |
| 9 | Yes , a lot of people think they ca n't afford T N T. |
| 10 | More than one-third of parents felt this did not happen whereas staff said they would always do it . |
| 11 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |
| 12 | If , for example , we knew what animals with neocortices could do that species lacking them could n't do we would know something about the cortex without having to ablate it in a single animal . |
| 13 | If mink escaped they could readily establish themselves in the wild , with serious implications for the indigenous wildlife : particularly at risk would be large colonies of ground-nesting seabirds , such as terns , puffins and black guillemots . |
| 14 | For example , 80% of female personal service workers said they could not design and plan important parts of their work ; 96% said they could not decide their starting and finishing times ; and 63 % said they could not initiate new tasks during their work . |
| 15 | The pair say they could both have been killed if neighbours had n't woken them up . |