Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , the triangular relationship between the UK , the USA and the European Community will be examined in order to assess how civil aviation between them might develop in the near future . |
| 2 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 3 | There is a degree of autonomy within each of the four countries , and although they may unite in the same objectives ( such as improvements in educational and professional standards ) , each has to be responsive to the nature and demands of its country of origin . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Wales will not know the countries they must meet in the qualifying stage of the 1995 World Cup until next month . |
| 5 | I do think , however , that there are still prevalent many gross misconceptions of what universities do and what they should do in the modern age : and it may be that some of these misconceptions still drift about the corridors of the Department . |
| 6 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 7 | There are seldom any references to co-curricular activities and the important part which they might play in the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 8 | It was fortunate that the weather was good and they could sleep in the open , but that did not solve the immediate problem of how they were to be fed . |
| 9 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 10 | Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time … |
| 11 | They could eat in the main cookhouse , but tonight they prefer their own culinary efforts . |
| 12 | The prospect of remaining unmarried was undoubtedly materially harsher for working class women , because the average wage they could command in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries was below subsistence level . |
| 13 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 14 | ‘ This time last year we had question marks against some players — whether they could play in the First Division . |
| 15 | He was going to walk her to her other job in the bar , across the Jardin du Luxembourg ; perhaps they 'd sit in the late sunshine , near the thin young naked girl who looked exposed and hence signified Truth , the inscription said . |
| 16 | whether they 'd stay in the right shape or not . |
| 17 | Though maybe they 'd turn in the other direction , looking for a different angle ? |
| 18 | We then sprayed them with water for our picture and the instant transformation showed just how very good they 'd look in the right setting . |
| 19 | The aversion argument was extracted from its literary context and elevated into a full-blown defence of crudity in the Oz case : " One of the arguments was that many of the illustrations in Oz were so grossly lewd and unpleasant that they would shock in the first instance and then would tend to repel . |
| 20 | It is generally expected that the profits firms receive as a result of collusion exceed those they would earn in the one-shot NE , otherwise they might as well not collude . |
| 21 | Two of the great houses in Jane Austen 's novels , Donwell and Northanger , have their origin in abbeys ; but they acquire no spiritual dimension in consequence , as they would do in the Victorian novel , where the proportion of great houses grown from abbeys must surely exceed the proportion of those that , like Fountains Hall , actually did so in fact . |
| 22 | Mr Calvert , President of Peugeot and highly critical of Britain 's stance on Japanese investment , insisted : ‘ Even if Nissan had 100 per cent local content as well as local design , they would go in the overall quota ’ . |
| 23 | as if they would move in the same circles . |
| 24 | South Africa have employed a potent cocktail of running and kicking in their three tour victories and coach John Williams pledged they would continue in the same vein . |
| 25 | Perhaps only because Green is the opposite of Red many people said Green when asked what party they would support in the forthcoming elections . |
| 26 | Advisers had in many cases given guarantees that the only information that they would use in the final report would be that which could be used in a public document . |
| 27 | The crisis-weary Poles are showing far less enthusiasm for this agreement than they would have in the heady days of 1980 . |
| 28 | Such cards are a standard pattern and size , so that they will fit in the Japanese filing systems . |
| 29 | However as subject specialists they will be able to offer older primary school children ‘ the sort of organisation that they will meet in the secondary school ’ . |
| 30 | But Keegan is convinced they will stay in the promised land . |