Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 2 | No doubt in due course they would become equally vocal in their complaints about the French , but Thiercelin decided that so far as possible his own behaviour should be above reproach . |
| 3 | While such a set-up would probably be established under the auspices of the Bank of England , the main users in the shape of the institutions envisage that in due course they would take over ownership . |
| 4 | In due course they will arrive in Safra to be offloaded over a beach and thence travel by road into the theatre of operations . |
| 5 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 6 | Once armed with that freedom they might surprise Mr Cash by also seeking membership of the community . |
| 7 | See lot lot of these jobs are done by the tide , say you take a ship now what 's been sunk in the river , at low tide they 'll put the wires underneath , make them fast to the ships and when the tide when the t t tide rise out come the ship , and they can take it where they want to . |
| 8 | To gain the professional certificate they will have to take and pass the Case Study in a subsequent year ; see section 17 . |
| 9 | When taking a train journey women were advised to equip themselves with the largest hat-pin they could find and if travelling by night , or through a tunnel , they were to sit bolt upright , hat-pin clenched between the teeth in case of attack . |
| 10 | " In that case they 'll keep you longer , taking details The queue goes round you . " |
| 11 | In that case they would have had to break the glass . |
| 12 | In that case they would have obtained 50 per cent . |
| 13 | But governments now believe that if they are to tackle new subjects at a European level they must tighten their control . |
| 14 | That is not correct in as much as every individual officer was tasked to an individual action and therefore there was no need to come into that bedroom the area er if they 'd have heard shouting or whatever in that bedroom they would have known not to come into that area because there was obviously a threat in there . |
| 15 | People still think the greatest compliment they can pay you is to say that you look younger than your age . |
| 16 | And in settling what these questions shall be , statesmen have now especially a great responsibility if they raise questions which will excite the lower orders of mankind ; if they raise questions on which the interest of those orders is not identical with , or is antagonistic to , the whole interest of the State , they will have done the greatest harm they can do . |
| 17 | Obviously , all ministers must have reasonable discretion in such matters , but if they depart from a clear , professional recommendation they must have good reason . |
| 18 | While it is acknowledged by pluralists that groups and associations will not all be equal in the political weight they can bring to bear on governments , no group will dominate all the time , and most groups will be able to have their way some of the time . |
| 19 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 20 | They finally reached Marseilles , an enormous distance , particularly when you consider the devious route they must have taken , but were unlucky enough to be spotted by the Vichy French , who were in league with the Nazis . |
| 21 | The effect of failure to resolve a factual problem will vary with the circumstances , but their Lordships need not decide how in this case they would have viewed such failure , seen in isolation . |
| 22 | In this case they can present a different appearance , a host of little tubes combining together into branching twigs or nets . |
| 23 | People always protest against new forms of taxation , and in this case they will protest now when it is threatened , and again next year when half is imposed and half is threatened , and again in 1995 when the full effect is felt on fuel bills . |
| 24 | In this case they will follow anywhere in the Castle to get it back . |
| 25 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 26 | Even as Rachel flitted before us down passageways and galleries , I could feel other presences , as if ghosts hiding in the shadows watched her pass then trailed behind us , looking for some weakness they could exploit . |
| 27 | The House of Lords held that for the directors to have been negligent in taking this course they would have had to have been ‘ cognisant of circumstances of such a character , so plain , so manifest , and so simple of appreciation , that no men with any ordinary degree of prudence , acting on their own behalf ’ would have entered into the transaction . |
| 28 | Notice they are not only given a reason for observing , which , of course , gives their spectator role a frame through which to watch , but there is also a hint of some responsibility they might have to carry — a necessary engagement is then ensured . |
| 29 | For the filmmakers of Anderson 's generation , there was a double frustration : both that there was no vital British cinema they could celebrate as critics , and that the film industry had shrunk to the point where it offered no easy point of entry into the industry . |
| 30 | ’ Then I asked the children to write about some experience they could recall that had something physical about it . |