Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | they must do something about the park court this summer , get the perspex sheeting renew renewed |
| 2 | The notes were taken early on in the research when I was chiefly concerned with documenting pollution control work , thus they should suggest something of the nature of the job — routine tasks as well as special problems — which an officer can encounter on a summer 's day . |
| 3 | Some were eating and there was always the chance when this happened that they might put something into the Cages for the eagles . |
| 4 | Luckily a team of waiters offered a line of protection , though even they could do nothing about the way he was levelling those dark eyes at her as if with deliberate and enigmatic meaning . |
| 5 | If they 're all like this they could infect everything in the Domain . |
| 6 | The whirlwind raged at the window … but although they strained to listen , they could hear nothing from the corridor beyond . |
| 7 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 8 | Although the depopulation of the Western Isles has resulted at least partly from such malign human interventions as the clearances , it is doubtful if they could support anything like the past numbers at levels of living acceptable by present-day standards . |
| 9 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 10 | A High Court judge said they would earn nothing from the book , if convicted . |
| 11 | They would prefer someone in the age range 25 — 45 . |
| 12 | They would possess none of the inherent tactile and balancing powers of hers , or that creature outside . |
| 13 | If we could see the lines of current flow for the rectangular inversion layer we have considered , on a microscopic scale they would look something like the sketch in Figure 4 . |
| 14 | So , ’ he continued , ‘ if you had a tall skyscraper , say , with people living at the top , they will think everything at the bottom has shrunk — been squashed down — compared to normal . ’ |
| 15 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 16 | We are confident that they will find nothing in the application which is ‘ incompatible with the statutory objective or the general principle of the Act ’ . |
| 17 | Pointing to the isolation and emotional stresses of the parish priest , they will add something along the lines that all do a valiant job in the face of overwhelming odds . |
| 18 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 19 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 20 | " We want to bring it to the attention of communities that they can do something about the rubbish in their streets , " said UNEP 's Richard Lumbe , launching the campaign in Nairobi . |
| 21 | It is so high and cold that they can raise nothing but the hardiest kind of vegetables … it is the only fishery the Nez Perce have and they go there from all directions … |
| 22 | and he convinced them he did n't need an operation , he was , he was cured , he 'd had his treatment , psy psychiatrist that seen him and he was all right thank you , he said , and they 're so clever they can convince anybody on the outside |