Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panel will try to assess the recruit 's ability to remain impartial and courteous even under pressure and their ability to keep any strong opinions they may have from influencing the advice process . |
| 2 | We provide a full sailing programme with rescue cover at least six hours a day ; we do n't allow sailing in strong winds without rescue cover , so if level 5 sailors ( can carve gybe ) wish to sail outside normal hours they must arrange alternative rescue cover . |
| 3 | With differing or conflicting values they would often be pulling in different directions and pursuing incompatible goals . |
| 4 | If they have adequately emotional words they can be used . |
| 5 | Some sufferers have been known to jog themselves literally to death , despite being told by doctors of the specific risks they would incur by taking further exercise . |
| 6 | It is sometimes argued that the additional costs of disability are offset , to some extent , by the more limited range of social activities they can engage in , which produces cost savings for them . |
| 7 | Where the English partners of these enterprises are carrying on their practice as English solicitors they will be bound by the Overseas Practice Rules 1990 as well as by the local laws of the countries in which they operate . |
| 8 | In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets . |
| 9 | For a few minutes they would wander along the rails and then , suddenly , as though seized with panic , they would hasten back to the safety of the group they had left . |
| 10 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 11 | In the same product lines where foreign investors generally specialize , national firms do not necessarily behave differently and in some cases they might promote the direct use of less labor . |
| 12 | In some cases they may be diametrically opposed . |
| 13 | In some cases they may appear to be in conflict . |
| 14 | In some cases they may explode or manage to throw off enough matter to reduce their mass below the limit and so avoid catastrophic gravitational collapse , but it was difficult to believe that this always happened , no matter how big the star . |
| 15 | In some cases they may worsen the situation for market participants by reducing liquidity in an unanticipated way which offsets any benefits arising from a closer " fit " to investment needs . |
| 16 | In some cases they may not wish to . |
| 17 | In some cases they will be able to participate as employers . |
| 18 | In some cases they could be tried only by their own national courts and cases had to be remitted to Smyrna or Ankara or wherever it was . |
| 19 | Leo Castelli notes , ‘ Collectors do n't give art away only to save taxes , though dealers will surely lose some objects they would have gotten otherwise . |
| 20 | They lead to a formal , didactic , teacher-centred approach , they operate with devastating force upon teachers newly trained in ‘ activity methods ’ , but in the tough , bleak conditions which obtain in some schools they may well represent the only possible alternative for a struggling teacher to adopt . |
| 21 | But what I 'm saying is some schools they might be here seventy five days out of a hundred but for twenty of those |
| 22 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 23 | Be wary also of shops flogging any old trainers they can get their hands on . |
| 24 | It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas . |
| 25 | Often the reaction to other foods is only temporary — if they are eliminated from the diet for a few months they can be eaten again without difficulty . |
| 26 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |
| 27 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 28 | And in some organizations they would not be working for us any more |
| 29 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 30 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |