Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nursing agencies have often been the means to re-entry in the past , and they too are having to adapt to new forces at work which for them could represent a consumer boom . |
| 2 | ‘ A man may deposit on his land excrement which is foul smelling and a nuisance , but it may be that the evil effects wear off in twenty-four to forty-eight hours so it is difficult for a local authority to serve an abatement notice and prove that the nuisance was still in existence when service was made , whereas now , once the deposit is made and is indeed a statutory nuisance , then the statutory nuisance has occurred , and if the local authority are satisfied it will occur again they may serve a prohibition notice ’ . |
| 3 | This being the case , provided patients realise that they may experience a bowel frequency of seven in 24 hours ( usually five stools in the day and one night time evacuation ) , the operation has unquestionably improved the wellbeing of most patients . |
| 4 | They may offer a delivery service |
| 5 | They may continue the case in order to gain more information ; they may make a supervision order , involving the child living at home but under regular supervision , or being sent to live elsewhere in the care of others ; or they may discharge the referral altogether . |
| 6 | They may include a problem-solving activity . |
| 7 | Coronation Street 's 20 million viewers would , for instance , be unlikely to be deprived — but they may need a satellite dish if Granada sold the show to BSB . |
| 8 | The judge says if the jury believe that , they may consider a manslaughter verdict against James . |
| 9 | Or they may fire a warning shot . ’ |
| 10 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , DEC is supposed to have Alpha boxes running on the floor at DECWorld ‘ 92 in Boston this week : expectations are that they may have a deskside Flamingo , and one to four processor Laser there . |
| 12 | They must choose a nursery rhyme that has not been chosen before , and then the third or fourth team continues . |
| 13 | Most women retiring in 1987/88 will have ‘ working lives ’ of 39 years , and to get a full pension they must have a contribution record for 35 years . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe they should build a police station on the site it looks as though it could come in very handy in the future … ‘ |
| 15 | The UK apparently had also been exerting pressure on Commonwealth member countries with MNR sympathies , notably Kenya , to convince the rebels that they should accept a peace package . |
| 16 | He said that they should see a speech therapist . |
| 17 | According to a recent report from the market research company Mintel , customer perceptions of quality in products and service have more to do with their expectation that companies should get it right first time than with the belief that they should provide a safety net to protect consumers once things have gone wrong . |
| 18 | If you get yourself down there , they 'll do a chest X-ray , you do n't need an appointment , there should be minimal waiting time , in and out . |
| 19 | I imagine most of these pl most of these places , if they 're organizations , they 'll have a phone number in the book . |
| 20 | In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets . |
| 21 | We might not even get as much coverage as Sunderland if they manage to get into the play-offs ( and with the way their luck goes they 'll get a play-off place by finishing tenth ) . |
| 22 | If users think they can run the same applications on Solaris , Destiny and Open Desktop then they 'll buy a desktop Unix client . |
| 23 | She thought they might have a Christmas tree ; for the first non-ideological season for many years . |
| 24 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 25 | They could quote a percentage rate and charge costs of various sorts on top ; other creditors had to include all additional costs — which for CCAUK members included doorstep collection costs — in the APR figure . |
| 26 | Last week dentists were celebrating being awarded a pay rise , but this week they 've been told they could face a £6,000 pay cut instead . |
| 27 | Last week dentists were celebrating being awarded a pay rise , but this week they 've been told they could face a £6,000 pay cut instead . |
| 28 | It was inevitable that this strength , particularly when confronted by such weakness , generated the belief in both countries that they could transact a peace settlement which safeguarded their respective concerns . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the French boasted they could make a neutron bomb , the US was still anguished over the spy story of Cheltenham as Prime got 35 years ' rumours of Brezhnev 's death proved true . |
| 30 | Sponsored roundabout signs will not be allowed if they could cause a traffic hazard . |