Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the plaintiff 's submissions of law are correct they may well never have to be resolved . |
| 2 | If you , the reader , are not of a scientific bent , then they may not much appeal to you and you may wish to gloss over them . |
| 3 | In discussing the various types of eruption that are generally recognized , it was emphasized that labels such as ‘ Strombolian ’ or ‘ Plinian ’ should only be applied to recognizable phases of an eruption ; they may not necessarily apply to the whole thing . |
| 4 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 5 | Unless full powers were given to the pope 's ambassadors their success was likely to be qualified — without telephones , " hotlines " , faxes , they could not speedily refer to the centre . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
| 7 | The ideological nature of social contracts means that they need not always correspond to individual self-interest . |
| 8 | Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher . |
| 9 | Jen Longbottom says its a race for the country lovers … they try to take people to a part of the country where they would not normally get to … it 's not a race for softies … |
| 10 | It is the resulting harm ( death ) which still dominates , as is evident from the fact that many forms of conduct fall within the law of manslaughter if death happens to result , whereas they would not even amount to a serious offence if a consequence less than death had ensued . |
| 11 | ‘ I hear things are so bad between the prince and princess , they ca n't even bear to be in the same room as one another , ’ said an estate worker . |
| 12 | I mean they ca n't even go to the shops sometimes and they 're not safe . |
| 13 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 14 | But , if they give up , they ca n't really contribute to the better quality of society . |
| 15 | The reason is that , as interest rates fall , although people may buy fewer UK securities , they will not simply switch to holding idle balances of sterling . |
| 16 | It is suggested in the Preface that the other types of trial should precede CD trials , as they will almost certainly lead to changes in the teaching unit , which will improve its chances of surviving in this taxing environment . |
| 17 | If the flights can be arranged , they will almost certainly come to the region . |
| 18 | You will have to ask them — they wo n't even talk to us . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps I can rely upon the Merkuts , for they can not yet aspire to the throne . |
| 20 | The likes of us we 've got a man behind us , but the likes of them I feel sorry for , they can not actually afford to be sick and that 's it . |
| 21 | He argues that Y-cells are so rare in the retina they can not possibly contribute to visual perception because their resolution , by themselves , is inadequate to convey any useful information . |
| 22 | Notice how they are all so excited that they can no longer listen to one another . |
| 23 | but they , they actually realized that they , they can no longer look to the landlords as their friends or their |
| 24 | Most learn by trial and error that they can never really get to the bottom of the problem if they did not witness it and so emphasize the importance of sharing and co-operating in the family so everyone stays happy . |
| 25 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 26 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |