Example sentences of "[adj] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moscow authorities are making it quite clear they 'll decide who does what in the city and not the Kremlin . |
| 2 | ‘ Our social workers felt it was a waste of time going for public law orders because the girls had made it clear they would flout them , ’ said assistant county secretary David Spicer . |
| 3 | lord justice beldam made it clear in this case that the insurer had made it clear they would indemnify the defendant . |
| 4 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 5 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 6 | Another theory could be that their eyesight is so exceptional that when the water is clear they can fill their stomachs in a very short time and are therefore , for most of the time , not hungry and ignore anglers baits under these conditions . |
| 7 | For if they pitch fares too high they could drive away even more passengers . |
| 8 | One of its great strengths is to show how many of the traditional values help people make sense of the world around them — no matter how irrational they might seem to outsiders . |
| 9 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 10 | Neither we , nor they knew just how flexible and responsive they 'd have to be . |
| 11 | If he was n't careful they would get on to the subject of the motorway . |
| 12 | If they are left entirely unqualified they can do more harm than good to family relationships . |
| 13 | Carp feed on anything edible they can find , animal or vegetable . |
| 14 | This obligatory military involvement , though a burden which some clergy would willingly have evaded , was for others doubtless a proud duty or welcome excitement ; not many of those assembled actually saw battle , but their association with this medieval ‘ home guard ’ must surely have blurred the distinction between clergy and laymen , with ambiguous and some unfortunate results : more popular they may have been , but equally more vulnerable when sentiment turned , as it did , against both war and the clergy . |
| 15 | They 're being served up by British Rail on an Inter City service , and if they prove popular they could become part of the regular travelling menu . |
| 16 | Well I think it would be a change it 's when they 're when they 're when they 're jacket would be wet they would have another |
| 17 | And if they get too wet they will wrinkle . |
| 18 | However suicidal they may feel , there is a lifeline ; a sympathetic listener on the end of a phone 24 hours a day . |
| 19 | They 'd probably better check that the whole place is n't falling down and I 'm afraid they 'll want to see Maggie , but I 'll get rid of them . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll do that all too easily . |
| 21 | Afraid they 'll clap her away , I imagine . ’ |
| 22 | Because what we do n't have is people turning up to work because they 're afraid they 'll lose their job during these recessionary times . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll have to agree to a change of day , or it 'll be cancelled . |
| 24 | Tightening her lips as though afraid they might widen against her will , she then found she could n't bear the ensuing silence . |
| 25 | I 'm just afraid they might forget . ’ |
| 26 | Those who formulated the rules for admission to the College , who were afraid they might deter men from coming forward to train for membership of a still infant profession , limited the requirement for admission to an ability to read and write well — quite a severe restriction at the time — plus personal recommendation . |
| 27 | Parents are now having second thoughts : ‘ I 've heard people saying they would n't have chosen to put their children in school , but their friends were going for it and they were afraid they would miss out , ’ she said . |
| 28 | ‘ My impulse was to pick them up and hug them , but they are so frail I was afraid they would break . |
| 29 | Afraid they would come after me , that Harry would be punished on my account ; that worse might befall Daisy and I not there to help … |
| 30 | But I was afraid they would shoot at me again , and anyway I was grateful for their kindness in giving me food and drink , so I did not move . |