Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is commonplace to find sufferers from alcoholism or drug addiction denying that they may themselves have food , nicotine or caffeine addictions or other compulsive behaviours and they may even deny that these other addictions are " real " addictions at all . |
| 2 | They may well arrive when this is all over . ’ |
| 3 | They may well claim that such commitments would result in bankruptcy , but if that were the case ( and it seems unlikely ) , the case for a lesbian and gay politics that addresses problems in our social structures remains a strong one . |
| 4 | They may also ensure that essential standards of work and conduct are upheld , although the school 's management and organisation should be such that they need be used only exceptionally . |
| 5 | They must also ensure that educational adaptation corresponds to local circumstances rather than simply to national value systems which may have no positive role in helping people to develop their own resources . |
| 6 | It is understandable , therefore , why they should also believe that this harsh and exploitative system a fact noted not just by Marxists but also by social reformers like Dickens , Rowntree , William Booth , the Webbs and Edwin Chadwick at the time would ultimately be questioned by the class of people who were at once both the most numerous and the most exploited by this mode of production . |
| 7 | They might also accept that some , if only few , among the many would grow ; and that when it had become operationally necessary or desirable a growing business could divide itself and in such a way that the divisions were suitable ‘ constituencies ’ for the democratic purposes of the co-operative . |
| 8 | The main Maronite Christian militia , the Lebanese Forces ( LF ) , contended that they could not disarm while armed Palestinian units remained in southern Lebanon . |
| 9 | They could not believe that large numbers of mammals would eventually be found in some of the earliest rocks . |
| 10 | Some teachers pointed out that they could not remember whether any changes had resulted , whilst others mentioned minor changes such as ‘ tightening up ’ in certain areas , greater awareness of scale post responsibilities , clearer definition of roles , and an improvement in communication processes . |
| 11 | ‘ Looking at the state of the pitch on television , ’ he adds , ‘ they could easily argue that such an application would be an environmental improvement . ’ |
| 12 | Does the Prime Minister recall that in 1986 he announced the closure of DHSS resettlement centres and gave a firm promise that they would not close until alternative accommodation was available ? |
| 13 | As we saw , most modern anthropologists would , like Morgan , stress the corporate character of descent groups and would agree that these groups can not be understood as large families [ Fortes , 1953 ] , but they would also stress that some kind of individual domestic unit seems to normally exist in societies with descent groups . |
| 14 | They would also claim that such forgiveness is important in their lives for , without the forgiveness of God and each other , it is seen as impossible to be reconciled with God . |
| 15 | Doctors do not kill handicapped babies ; they allow them to die , implying that they would naturally die if left alone . |
| 16 | But reality in the 1990s mean her story has a side retailers feel they ca n't ignore and that means it 's off sale . |
| 17 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 18 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 19 | Mention this to most clergymen and they will rightly say that spiritual development is far more important than a degree . |
| 20 | ‘ They wo n't understand as long as you speak quickly . ’ |
| 21 | And although Siegel 's results demonstrate convincingly that response strategies can indeed transfer from one discrimination to another , they can not show that such strategies are the sole source of the transfer effects seen in his experiment . |
| 22 | They can not accept that one of their most cherished foxes has been shot . |
| 23 | Moreover , by choosing an option that has been shown to be the best in terms of quality of life days gained general practitioners would be more certain that they were acting with beneficence ; at present , using simply their ‘ unaided intuitive judgment ’ to make such decisions , they can only hope that this is the case . |
| 24 | They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years . |
| 25 | The most efficient way of loading R&D resources is to place the proposals in order of priority and then to allocate to them , in that order , all the resources they can usefully employ until all allocated resources are committed . |
| 26 | The most efficient way of loading R&D resources is to place the proposals in order of priority and then to allocate to them , in that order , all the resources they can usefully employ until all allocated resources are committed . |