Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he can produce individuals who will come and have a discussion with him or with me , I bet that we could find somewhere where they could work , especially in a city such as London where jobs in the tourist industry , in the retail trade and in the back-up to that are still available . |
| 2 | The option is to play somewhere where they can arrive at 2.45 and the ground is still empty . ’ |
| 3 | They attacked only where they could do so with overwhelmingly superior numbers ; in danger they disbanded . |
| 4 | As well as challenging the justification for piecemeal projects at a local level , especially where they would affect designated landscapes , we believe we need to develop a strategic overview of transport policy in Wales , questioning the present approach and proposing less environmentally damaging alternatives . |
| 5 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 6 | He 'd brought home some hairs from the cross on the back of a donkey when she was cutting her teeth , and Ma had made a little black silk bag to put them in so they could hang round her neck to keep the funny turns away . |
| 7 | J.B. You know it 's positive discrimination in that and boys will not be allowed in so they can have , you know , an enjoyable night , being girls but not with boys there to say , ‘ oh , yea , you 've got nice legs ’ and all this , so that salves my conscience a bit and I was n't very worried about it , but I wo n't have beauty demonstrations and things in the club 'cause I 'm not going to reinforce the image that boys already have of the girls . |
| 8 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 9 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 10 | The one-to-one teaching usually meant that they learned more and did better than they would have in the classroom . |
| 11 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 12 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |
| 13 | The newcomers will be hoping that the unsettling bid talk will die down so they can set about the more urgent tasks that lie ahead . |
| 14 | The Chief Constable fussed around the Bishop , the press had been shut up , or anyway given a damn sight less than they would have been if it had n't been a priest 's body , or rather , head . |
| 15 | They will be worse for frail , elderly people , for physically and mentally disabled people , and I think people will also be asking the Tory and Liberal Democrat groups why they went for half a million pounds less than they need have done in service provision . |
| 16 | We all agree that small stores are important , but they can remain viable only if they can carry out their trading on Sundays . |
| 17 | Governments can raise tax revenue only if they can identify the activities on which the tax rates apply . |
| 18 | Overseas markets too are affected , for only if they can reach ports at reasonable cost and efficiency can goods be readily exported . |
| 19 | In turn , they will be able to buy only if they can raise the money to bid , which depends on investors ' assessment of the risk and likely return . |
| 20 | It has decided that individual states can refuse imports of waste from neighbouring countries , but only if they can prove that the trade is dangerous to their health or environment . |
| 21 | I want to make it absolutely clear that general practitioners voluntarily choose to run fund-holding practices and are not forced by the Government to do so — and GPs will take that step only if they can see benefits for their patients . |
| 22 | That there will be fierce opposition to such changes is fairly certain , and there will be vociferant arguments against them , and whilst these must be listened to , they must be allowed to have influence only if they can help in the process of bringing into being the new philosophy or religion . |
| 23 | Once , the Harvard training officer allowed a dealer to visit a wealthy businessman who had expressed an interest in picking up Hard Rock Cafe shares , ( as he had contacts there ) but only if they could meet up . |
| 24 | Now there are chairs available for additional speakers so if they would come down it would certainly expedite the business of congress . |
| 25 | Er erm July , er June is erm , according to Chris 's seasonality figures , normally about erm twelve percent higher than the mean , erm so if they 'll take the mean at about , at being about three hundred and fifty , you know we 're looking at a figure of somewhere just over four hundred for July , as opposed to last July which was erm I think five er four hundred and ninety four complaints in the month , so it 's very unlikely that that output figure will continue going up next month . |
| 26 | So if they can do that , they can look up anything . |
| 27 | They might think they 're getting away with it , a lot of people who , who , I mean being unemployed is n't , you tend , people tend to feel devalued and so if they can think oh , they 've put one over on that , on the er , benefit office , then they 'll go and brag down the pub about it . |
| 28 | So so if they can assess my partner on . |
| 29 | So if they can keep you breathing and get your body to produce the necessary antibodies , then they can cure you . |
| 30 | So if they can find a way at working with one another and realizing that this is their life ! |