Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 2 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 3 | Foreign teachers of English often joked that they could not pass TOEFL , but for the Chinese students it was no laughing matter . |
| 4 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 5 | Even after the passing of minimum-wage legislation in 1909 , as many as 42 per cent of the homeworkers in the trades covered by the Acts found that they could not earn the statutory minimum . |
| 6 | Patterson trained her subjects to ask questions when they found that they could not choose between competing referents . |
| 7 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 8 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 9 | The Poles found that they could not impose any kind of law and order until they knew the exact borders they had been given , and as each day passed they became more and more desperate for a final decision . |
| 10 | The Kaszubes in Danzig and Germany found that they could not export their produce to Poland economically simply because Polish produce was cheaper , and in the Corridor they could not export their produce to Germany effectively because , as far as the Germans were concerned , the Kaszubes were Polish . |
| 11 | He does not seem to have been one universally approved , for a man known as the Acquisitor , and who may have acquired the estates of tax defaulters , probably had enemies , and Dr Keynes has suggested that the retirement from court of the king 's uncle Ordulf and the prominent West Saxon Æthelmær occurred because they could not countenance his growing influence . |
| 12 | Apparently all 22 players could read , and they all realized that they need n't bother to play hard any more . |
| 13 | Of the 53 farmers ( 35% ) who chose evenings for the 3 hour course , 21 ( 40% ) agreed that they might not gain full benefit from an evening course and 32 ( 60% ) felt that they would gain as much as from a day time course . |
| 14 | Miss T. 's mother and father had an argument , but not in the presence of Miss T. , and agreed that they would not allow their acrimonious relationship to come to her notice . |
| 15 | The New York judges who sat in Elmer 's case , for example , all agreed that they must not disobey the decision of the legislature reported in the statute of wills . |
| 16 | When in 1861 Louisa Twining proposed to a government Select Committee that women should be allowed to stand for election as Poor Law Guardians , she agreed that they should not interfere in the male province of finance and administration , and should not have any say over the treatment of male paupers . |
| 17 | The report recommended that they should either admit pupils without charging fees and without selecting by ability , or forgo state aid . |
| 18 | Now the three Scottish judges ruled that they could not decide on the matter , a decision , as they must have realized , that was profoundly to affect the trial . |
| 19 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 20 | In a study of potential nursing home residents it was observed that the old people were likely to undergo a major psychological upheaval as they realised that they must soon give up their own homes and accept institutionalisation for the rest of their lives ( Tobin and Lieberman , 1976 ) . |
| 21 | He realised that they could n't put the fire out and that something was going to happen . |
| 22 | Police realised that they could not afford to repeat mistakes made during the Yorkshire Ripper case when they interviewed Peter Sutcliffe a number of times before belatedly arresting him . |
| 23 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 24 | At the conclusion of the hearing of this petition for special leave to appeal their Lordships announced that they would humbly advise Her Majesty that the petitioner ought to be granted special leave to appeal and that they would give their reasons later . |
| 25 | A number of militias and groups , including the Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) , Hezbollah and the Syrian National Socialist Party , announced that they would not comply with the government call . |
| 26 | Five others either declared their candidacy or announced that they would soon do so : Edmund G. ( Jerry ) Brown Jr , Governor of California in 1975-83 ; Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska , and Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia . |
| 27 | After some hesitation the Government announced that they would reluctantly accept the report . |
| 28 | A last-minute hiccup remained ; U Saw and Ba Sein announced that they could not sign , but Aung San brushed this aside : ‘ Let them resign and say they do not agree with the final statement and do not accept any responsibility for it . ’ |
| 29 | According to Töpfer , the Chinese argued that they could not apply Western European safety standards to their nuclear plants . |
| 30 | He refused and Universal countered that they would merely give it a limited showing . |