Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 2 | One may be a reaction to the other , or they may amount to a tacit agreement on both sides that sexual attraction has become a thing of the past . |
| 3 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 4 | They may belong to a minor αβ T-cell pathway in which DN DP transition occurs independently of TCR -β rearrangement or expression . |
| 5 | In fact , if the social sciences are really to explain the social world , would it not be wiser to retreat from the demand that they must conform to a single standard of explanation , and allow instead that they may encompass a variety of projects ? |
| 6 | I 've taken someone this afternoon from Highdown just until the half term when they should go to a special school . |
| 7 | Furthermore , external auditors are left with a very difficult decision as to whether they should report to a third party if they suspect the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 8 | The panel would have responsibility for counselling the external assessors on whether they should report to a third party when they suspect that the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , give me a few minutes , ’ Mark said , ‘ and I 'll ring the Prime Minister 's office in Istanbul , to see if they 'll agree to a short postponement . ’ |
| 10 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 11 | It did however reflect a sense of Britain 's central role in a world-wide economy and permitted individuals to believe they could contribute to a good cause without relying upon government or becoming enmeshed in politics . |
| 12 | After about nine months ' stay they could graduate to a single room but by then many preferred to be in with their friends . |
| 13 | Their desperate attempts to cut expenditure in any way they could led to a sharp decline in print quality . |
| 14 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 15 | Lawyers would tap such men on the shoulder , they would go to a quiet corner and a deal would be made . |
| 16 | They would go to an Indian or Pakistani shop , since the sort of cloth needed is not easily available in ordinary department stores . |
| 17 | Does he accept that if such proposals were implemented , they would lead to a separatist , socialist , nationalist Scotland , enormous loss of jobs and the closure of military bases ? |
| 18 | They would lead to an estimated 135 redundancies among farms in the Borders alone . |
| 19 | There would be a couple of quick scenes of frenzied activity and then they would cut to a grand finale of Mickey Rooney & Co singing and dancing their way across a barn miraculously transformed into a splendid stage . |
| 20 | He concludes with a formal oath : ‘ I , the Lord , have spoken ; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall come to a full end , and there they shall die . ’ |
| 21 | They will go to an agricultural co-operative selling spices , a sugar workers ' action centre , a project working with women employed in free trade zones and an agricultural diversification project , among others . |
| 22 | Other countries are prepared to give a commitment that they will move to a single currency without reference back to their domestic Parliaments . |
| 23 | The same is true for those Caribbeans who have moved to London , with the additional complication that they will accommodate to a greater or lesser extent to the norms of London English , as shown by J.C . |
| 24 | The company has produced a first generation of plants from the modified seeds , and is now waiting to see if they will reproduce to a new generation , containing the implanted genes . |
| 25 | Finding out the expectations of clients is important in assessing how readily they will take to an educational self-help approach . |
| 26 | They will come to an appropriate arrangement with you . |
| 27 | where a special area in one housing estate has been set aside for problem families , where they are given daily supervision combined with training and instruction designed to teach them the elements of home craft and mothercraft so that in due course , when they have proved they can manage their affairs , domestic , financial or otherwise , they can return to a better house in a more desirable neighbourhood . |
| 28 | ‘ What they will be hoping for is that they can get to a few months before before the next election , take the brakes off and try to deceive the people once again things are back on course . |
| 29 | It will not be easy , but the team has already shown that , with a concerted effort , they can work to a high safety standard and they aim to reach the magic million next summer . |
| 30 | If they can come to a binding agreement , the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years . |