Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls who sign up for fashion 's survival course say they could n't imagine life on the other side of the camera . |
| 2 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 3 | An independent charity , the association say they can only hope to continue this level of help to sporting organisations with the public 's support . |
| 4 | Children seem to have little difficulty accepting this convention because it is so like the action replays they will frequently have seen on television . |
| 5 | It went on to warn against any general attack on fiscal incentives ( or , as ICAS says the report negatively and unhelpfully refers to them , ‘ fiscal degradation ’ ) : there is no level playing field in the EC and so less successful economies have to offer incentives to compete , ICAS said , and any attempt to eliminate them would only lead to governments using non-tax ones which will be harder for others to identify . |
| 6 | Today , the department said they could n't answer that until they review the case . |
| 7 | He himself played the chief role in the film , that of a bisexual young man whose girlfriend decides they will not use condoms although she knows he is seropositive , because she believes that ‘ love will protect her . ’ |
| 8 | A potentially crippling problem arose last week when hundreds of policemen from the 17,000-strong security force said they would not take part unless they were guaranteed proper living conditions and pay rises . |
| 9 | But anti hunt lobby say they wo n't go that far . |
| 10 | Aid will only be available if they pay larger amounts than those demanded now and which present experience shows they can not afford . |
| 11 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 12 | Heppelmann says they will now appear anytime between September and next January , claiming HP 's existing £3,877 , low-end 715/33 desktop remains very competitive with other entry-level systems , including Sun 's £3,655 Tsunami-based SparcClassic and IBM Corp 's £3,664 RS/6000 220W . |
| 13 | Clough 's team decided they 'd rather die than swallow such medicine . |
| 14 | ‘ People were coming into the shop saying they could n't understand why I had taken such an attitude . ’ |
| 15 | Representatives at the conference said they could n't give any details . |
| 16 | The British Airports Authority and the Department of Transport said they could not comment until they had studied the union 's findings . |
| 17 | Thames Water say they 'll no carry out further studies of the site over the next two to three years . |
| 18 | Another 36% liked it quite a lot , but almost as many men enjoyed it only a little , not very much or not at all ( 7% of our sample say they ca n't remember how they felt ) . |
| 19 | A study by Parker , however , using a national sample , reached conclusions which were slightly more supportive of labour mobility programmes : Only 13 per cent of his sample said they would not have moved without a grant but 56 per cent said they would have found it difficult to move without a grant . |
| 20 | The foreman of the drilling crew said they would not work for any company that is in dispute with the local people . |
| 21 | If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going . |
| 22 | Oxford District Health authority say they ca n't commentbecause of the threat of legal action , but they say Jasmine 's case has already been acted on . |
| 23 | The members of the Cabinet said they would not have it . |
| 24 | They can do what they believe they can do but they sure as hell can not do what their manager believes they can not do . |
| 25 | Although an opinion poll last week suggested they could just secure the required number of seats , the tide is expected to turn against them in the course of a three-week campaign . |
| 26 | While your friends are giving you a hard time at present if you persist and refuse to indulge in drug taking they should eventually accept you as a non-user . |
| 27 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 28 | The Australian government announced they would not sign the Antarctic Minerals Convention , designed to control any mineral exploitation there and due to be signed by all nations claiming territory there . |
| 29 | But the ruling says they can only pay the bare minimum . |
| 30 | She said she was going to make a Will saying they could both stay on , without paying rent , as long as they wanted to . |