Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is never difficult to think of suitable gifts to take to elderly people who live alone , but apart from the obvious ones it is worth remembering that things like home-made cakes , biscuits , jam or marmalade which they may no longer bother to make for themselves are particularly appreciated . |
| 2 | This may involve telling them what they may not necessarily want to hear . |
| 3 | With companies being urged to look to the EC for the chance to expand now that the single market has come into force , this new service is intended to make it easier , particularly for smaller and medium-sized businesses , to take advantage of possibilities they might not otherwise get to hear about . |
| 4 | Feargal reckoned that if tourists would pay to see the castle they might very well pay to see his garden . ’ |
| 5 | So for things to get better they had to get worse ; the worse they were the better they 'd be in the future ; they could n't even start to get better before they 'd started to go drastically downhill . |
| 6 | When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable . |
| 7 | When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable . |
| 8 | The Government said dentists were treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend , but the profession argued if funding was cut they could no longer afford to do NHS work . |
| 9 | They could no longer afford to go to the pubs , clubs or bingo , nor the occasional day out or trip . |
| 10 | I would 've said that , but last night this meeting said they 'd very much like to see a officer in a car because they do n't see anybody at the moment |
| 11 | They say there 's too many children with problems round here to worry much about the old well , they 'd damn well have to worry if I was n't here doing all the work would n't they ? |
| 12 | Khaine is part of every Elf soul , a part they would rather never have to confront , but a part that they need . |
| 13 | In response to these events , the monetary authorities of countries other than the USA decided that they would no longer intervene to stabilize their exchange rates against the dollar , since this would have meant their accumulating large quantities of dollars for which ( a ) the exchange value was uncertain , and ( b ) the option of convertibility into gold at a fixed price had been terminated . |
| 14 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 15 | The intention was that the Uruguayans would construct a state refinery to process Soviet crude , so that they would no longer need to buy the more expensive refined products . |
| 16 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 17 | Modern societies use money as a means of cajoling people to do work they would not otherwise want to do . |
| 18 | The notion of giving money or quasi money to a family to spend in a way they would not otherwise choose to do is very far from the assumptions of a free market in which people spend their own money on something they want . |
| 19 | They knew that in another day or two they would not even have to charge the ramparts ; they would merely have to step over them and kill off the garrison as they pleased . |
| 20 | They would not really want to hand over responsibility to a board of trustees , but would rather retain rights their rights within the museum . |
| 21 | They would n't actually want to keep you , of course . |
| 22 | They would be perhaps regarded as thick as two short planks , er they would not be happy , they would be struggling to do work that was not honestly within their capacities , that being the case , they would almost certainly have to go down from the University . |
| 23 | They would then perhaps try to get him to another pub near the market — the jolly Farmer or the Golden Ball ( George Mutter of the jolly Farmer used to lodge three or four Irishmen regularly ) . |
| 24 | Not only is it hard to see how the buyer can then bring an action for breach of contract , as opposed to invoking the express remedies of the clause , but , even if he were able to , there is no reason why general exclusion clauses capping liability or excluding liability for economic loss should not be effective , since they would then only have to pass the reasonableness test . |
| 25 | Mr and Mrs Coombs live in Dorset and they would very much like to sell off some of their land for building . |
| 26 | They rap , they rock ( rack ? rop ? ) , they 're tighter than a miner 's shopping budget , they scare the shit out of the entire convention with a brutality that could put Rollins to shame and they are so flabbergastingly right for 1992 they ca n't possibly fail to sell , ooooh , millions . |
| 27 | While they will no longer have to charge investors VAT at 15 per cent , they will no longer be entitled to recover the VAT they spend on services bought in . |
| 28 | The cost savings accruing to independent software houses because they will no longer have to support multiple versions of their products is expected to entice others into the fold and redirect investment into added features and more robust programs . |
| 29 | The Commission says this would create savings for manufacturers as they will no longer have to supply labels , costing 70p each , in every community language . |
| 30 | Bass have spent months working on the deal and we 're told they will not even bother to attend tomorrow 's meeting of Premier clubs . |