Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His physical appearance and his rapport with the crowds remind people of his father , Prince Sihanouk , whose reign they may associate with the happier days before the Vietnam war and the Khmers Rouges . |
| 2 | They receive a substantial annual budget from central government coffers , they may borrow from the national loan fund for commercial purposes and they can make use of the proceeds from land sales . |
| 3 | There is a degree of autonomy within each of the four countries , and although they may unite in the same objectives ( such as improvements in educational and professional standards ) , each has to be responsive to the nature and demands of its country of origin . |
| 4 | But as one commentator has remarked , ‘ the trouble is some of these directives look as if they may take until the 21st century to be adopted let alone implemented ’ . |
| 5 | The Bridge of Ice may be used to move friendly troops into hand-to-hand combat , in which case they may fight from the following combat round and count as charging in the first round . |
| 6 | If any branch is not satisfied with the decision of the branch they may appeal to the Regional Committee . |
| 7 | ‘ I scarcely know whether these remarks are intended as the mere superfluous assertion of an abstract right , or whether they are intended to imply a covert threat , that if the petitioners are dissatisfied with the answer to their application , they may resort to the extreme course of closing that useful place of veterinary education . |
| 8 | But if they suddenly have the urge to express their senior status in relation to a new pet in the home they may revert to the age-old manner of doing this , much to the distress of their well-meaning owners , who probably bought the new kitten as a special companion for the older cat . |
| 9 | New mothers are so terrified of their babies getting cold that they may run into the opposite danger . |
| 10 | In other words , they may win within the established system but it does not get them very far if they are not carrying the people with them in a popular crusade for change . |
| 11 | He says they ought to jump in the nearest river ! |
| 12 | Repatriation was not the concern of the embassy , they must go to the British Consulate , a little distance away on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 13 | Most of the ‘ energy ’ ideas are based on dowsing results , but until these can be cross-referenced with physical monitoring they must remain on the wilder shores of the subject . |
| 14 | Now , their lustre faded , they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there . |
| 15 | Bernhard believes that they must rank with the other famous low level heavy bomber raid of the war , The Dambusters , Don MacIntyre , when asked if he thought the low level attacks were dangerous , replied , ‘ Yes , but it was dark at the time ’ . |
| 16 | They must interact with the outside world , and networks of computers are the way to do it . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Wales will not know the countries they must meet in the qualifying stage of the 1995 World Cup until next month . |
| 18 | If teachers are to assume a greater role in the control of their own organisations a far wider range of knowledge and skills is required than if they are to remain ‘ in the classroom ’ — they must move from the restricted to the extended approach . |
| 19 | Analytical methods used for the determination of ingredients should be stability indicating — i.e. , they must differentiate between the active ingredient and possible decomposition or degradation products . |
| 20 | Inevitably this assault had to mean trouble for some of their own folk , since they must drive through the outer ring of Scots to get at the enemy — the cost which had caused Ramsay momentarily to hesitate . |
| 21 | Theirs is not an unhappy lot — even though they must contend with the customary appellation of " chicken dropping " . |
| 22 | To pursue political objectives seriously , they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own . |
| 23 | The registry office could n't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day . |
| 24 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 25 | And we 're going to take some perfectly ordinary facets of life and try to address them in terms of what they should mean to the Christian believer . |
| 26 | They should go to the Royal Bank of Scotland , which has a branch in Head Street , Colchester , and fill out a pay slip for account number 11386303 , quoting their team reference number . |
| 27 | The Official Solicitor 's report is particularly relevant because , although made for the limited purpose mentioned above , it is the report of an independent guardian ad litem which makes clear that all the children are opposed to any suggestion that they should return to the foster mother and her ‘ family . ’ |
| 28 | A stout woman , whom Petion had spoken to a moment ago , indicated that they should sit on the scraggy cushions situated around the walls . |
| 29 | But what is it that persuades artists ( music hall or oils ) , comedians , actors , deep think-ers , burlesque queens and ‘ significant novelists ’ that they should contribute to the political debate ? |
| 30 | I do think , however , that there are still prevalent many gross misconceptions of what universities do and what they should do in the modern age : and it may be that some of these misconceptions still drift about the corridors of the Department . |