Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With their broader streets and freshly painted houses they might appear to be so , but , as Engels remarked , those streets were often unpaved and lacked a sewer , the paint was bound to fade within a decade , and their apparent solidity of build would then be revealed as no more than that of bricks laid end to end . |
| 2 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 3 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 4 | It 's basically offering people erm rather than becoming members they can become a supporter for five pounds a year of the Green Party for which they get three shortened up beat newsletters and this week it was two sides of A four . |
| 5 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 6 | Originally , the kitchen was dark and narrow , but the architect who helped with the structural changes suggested that if the living room and the kitchen swapped places they could have a large kitchen with French windows opening on to the garden . |
| 7 | I mean most companies would rather the four centimetres or whatever over a or and says that says things they 'd like to hear , than have erm than have say er which basically |
| 8 | The developers told councillors they would pay £3.5m to create an infrastructure for the settlement , between Hurworth and Neasham . |
| 9 | The concept of continuing professional development has been fostered by the Board of Fellows in its recent work and members should now keep records of all their reading , lectures , seminars and conferences attended in order to support applications they may wish to make in due course for upgrading to fellowship . |
| 10 | Chris always ends his visits by asking children not to disturb or try and touch snakes they may find in the wild . |
| 11 | Even if we ca n't provide exactly what they want , we can provide ideas they can adjust for their particular model . ’ |
| 12 | Meanwhile , business in Hungary and the Czech and Slovak republics is going very well , Turner says , because their respective governments have told firms they must get their financial systems up to Western standards . |
| 13 | Christmas is an ideal time to build up the collection by treating your nearest and dearest to video gifts they can enjoy all year round . |
| 14 | The only really bad cosmetic point on the whole guitar is that the switch is held in place by big , cheapo dome-headed screws , instead of the small , black , countersunk ones they should have been . |
| 15 | But the council now says it 's made Castlemeads safe and it 's told women they must start using it again . |
| 16 | ‘ They realized what complete idiots they 'd make of themselves , ’ said Nigel complacently . |
| 17 | No matter how well an organization 's strategic actors perceive leadership issues and pursue solutions they must secure organizational dominance and consensus , or at least obedience , for their goals . |
| 18 | You can only suggest ways they might go about it and provide what help you think they might need . |
| 19 | Get out of town … police tell travellers they must move on . |
| 20 | Occasionally when using cervical reintegration to treat patients they may start to cry , or even feel faint or sick , and afterwards experience a sense of relief . |
| 21 | But he warned businessmen they must work harder to make British industry more competitive . |
| 22 | Krimsky 's labours in the archives adds a voyeuristic titillation as people are quoted directly , sometimes saying things they might wish to forget . |
| 23 | Yeah , the uni er the uniform branch turn up to investigate a crime and if they find fingerprints they will get what 's known as a scenes of crime officer to take the fingerprints off the wall , yeah ? |
| 24 | This display of aesthetic preference is not absolute , but probabilistic : given a choice between two colours that we know from learning experiments they can distinguish reliably — purple and blue , for example — the bees will choose their favourite , purple , only 70 per cent of the time rather than 100 per cent . |
| 25 | If I ask questions they 'll wonder what I 'm up to but you can wheedle information out of them in general conversation . ’ |
| 26 | Turner ( 1984 ) notes the hypocrisy of excluding disabled people from these professions , stating : ‘ How can we tell patients they can lead normal lives when we do n't allow their peers to become our colleagues ? |
| 27 | Or is it women who are calling the shots — weary of living up to men 's fantasies , preferring instead to watch actresses they can identify with , both physically and emotionally ? |
| 28 | Maybe if she and Julie did n't have such tiring , exhausting jobs they might have more time to concentrate on the culinary arts . |
| 29 | If two adults are playing roles they can adopt quite a confrontational stance , challenging the children to act as mediators . |
| 30 | Technocrats are ‘ statists ’ who consider that state policies are available to manage all social problems , although in selecting solutions they may lean to the right ( favouring market management and abhorring the inefficiencies of state socialism ) or to the left ( deploring the waste of social resources under capitalism ) . |