Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] they [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the outcome of the final , my message to Will and the boys is thanks for the memories ; for me they will live forever , and I will have great pleasure in years to come to say ‘ I was there ’ , not ‘ I was embarrassed ’ . |
| 2 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 3 | Colleges made a major contribution to that work , an activity , as with In-Service generally , for which they would lack both credibility and resources were their teacher education work to be further reduced , as the proposed reforms threaten . |
| 4 | These people only understood one thing and that was individualism and by telling people to jog and eat brown bread , they defined health as an individual problem for which they could offer only individual solutions . |
| 5 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 6 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 7 | We add that this agenda is no less important in the context of the National Curriculum and mandatory assessment : although these seek to raise expectations and improve standards , of themselves they will achieve little unless professional attitudes , knowledge and skill are also attended to . |
| 8 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 9 | Growing herbs at random throughout a garden is in some ways the best arrangement — it is , after all , the way in which they would grow naturally — and species and varieties will be found that are happy on the rock garden , by the water , in bedding schemes , or as underplantings to tall perennials , shrubs and trees . |
| 10 | His novels , whether for young or adult readers , are centred on boys in the process of growing to manhood : he does not probe in depth into the feelings of his young heroes , but he does develop them in relation to events in which they may play convincingly passive or active roles in the fortunes of war . |
| 11 | Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so . |
| 12 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 13 | However , it is by no means certain that either of the established parties would agree to change since they would be bidding away long-term electoral advantage in return for a short-term in office in a coalition government in which they might have only limited power . |
| 14 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 15 | It is open to holists , however , to resist this conclusion , and Cohen distinguishes two ways in which they can do so . |
| 16 | There should be discussion between governors and the head about the best ways in which they can work together to complement each other 's efforts . |
| 17 | I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ? |
| 18 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
| 19 | Lord Arran told how Minister Walsh , who spent over a day at the show , and he would be considering the extent to which they can co-operate mutually to the advantage of all involved in the food and drink industry in Ireland . |
| 20 | The RECs can generate electricity on their own account but are strictly limited in the extent to which they can do so . |
| 21 | The extent to which they will do so , of course , depends on their personal attraction to the ideals of the Convention and the jurisprudence of its court . |
| 22 | There followed two hours of arguments between protestors over what they should accept as sufficient for leaving . |
| 23 | In that match I feel we would gain some consolationf from having 11 corners and maybe want to see the moves leading up to those … as they did nt amount to anything they may have just shown the ‘ dangerous ’ attacks . |
| 24 | If there 's no work for 'em they can go home for the day . |
| 25 | That would have the advantages of specifying with precision what the parties have agreed , thus avoiding misunderstanding , and of enabling the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may have tentatively determined to depart from the agreed proposals ( post , pp. 277H — 278B ) . |
| 26 | In the same way , human beings differ from one another in their ability to handle stress and the level at which they can cope comfortably . |
| 27 | And a witness told how he had seen looters running through evacuated apartments hunting for anything they could carry away . |
| 28 | Insider dealing provides a route by which they may do so . |
| 29 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |