Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , quality of print paper down the print shop does have to be checked so they may well use as a guide but they wo n't necessarily go thorough all the cost estimates . |
| 2 | The traffic impact of any development could be accommodated without serious detriment to the surrounding area , but although the above constraints are not seen as insurmountable , they may well act as a deterrent to development . |
| 3 | They may also serve as a useful basis for all children for heuristic strategies , that is , in producing the answers to unknown facts from known ones , for example 8+7= ( 7+7 ) +1 . |
| 4 | They may instead opt for a production , product or sales-orientation . |
| 5 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 6 | They may therefore benefit from a period in a convalescent home if this can be arranged . |
| 7 | According to D'Angelo , the festival will also offer existing venues the opportunity to bring in new audiences whom they may then attract on a more regular basis for their standard programming . |
| 8 | They must instead stick to a range of sensible prices reflecting the value of the target business to them . |
| 9 | But staff at Earlys say they 'll never go on a package holiday again . |
| 10 | But staff at Earlys say they 'll never go on a package holiday again . |
| 11 | Then they 'll now go into a maths lesson let's go into this , they 're gon na perhaps do that eight times , then they 're gon na get a breather , then a few days time after that the form teacher 's saying right , let's do it again and summarise it , I think it 's too much ! |
| 12 | Ask most people the time of day and they 'll usually look at a watch or a clock . |
| 13 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 14 | They might well talk to a pretty lady when they would hesitate to confide in an old man like me . ’ |
| 15 | The Ministers also ruled that from 1993 , EC carriers would lose any right they might currently enjoy to a guaranteed share of business on any route . |
| 16 | Yes I know , but surely , you know , they could just slot in a couple of like the twenty minute , fifteen minute toddler programmes or something within the day . |
| 17 | Any minority group is likely to include a substantial number of people who feel the need of … help and reassurance , … and many members of ethnic minorities suffer an additional persistent burden of racial discrimination which may well cause them to wonder what hope they could ever have of a fair hearing from a representative of the culture which treats them in this way … |
| 18 | But in the mid-1970s things began to look more promising , with the arrival of a young new minister which coincided with movement into the area of young couples who found that older properties were the only type of house they could now afford as a first buy . |
| 19 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 20 | Yeah they have to be deep littered all winter but they could perhaps do with a clean though that 's not bad in there . |
| 21 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 22 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 23 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 24 | They 'd rather settle for a return of their money , if it came to that . |
| 25 | I wonder if they would sooner live in a tribal hut than the white man 's three-bedroomed house with fully-fitted kitchen ? ’ |
| 26 | Small wonder at the end of a week , punch-drunk wth boredom , they were vague about how many they would normally do in a specified time-period . |
| 27 | They would rather ring for a cab for you , or even give you a lift home , than have to deal with any attack that could be made on you on your lonely way home . |
| 28 | So much so that they would rather live in a UK which seems set to have permanent Tory government than an independent Scotland which would almost certainly be Socialist . |
| 29 | Would these be shared between you and the operator , in the sense that they will be paying a keener price — from the operator 's point of view — then they would otherwise have for a shorter contract ? |
| 30 | But while the company 's management would not deny an element of luck , they would also point to a good deal of contingency planning that enabled them to react faster than anyone else to ILG 's collapse . |