Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun sg] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 2 | He did n't know how high a temperature they could take before they went into shut-down , and he supposed he would n't get a chance to record his findings if he did pursue the experiment to the end . |
| 3 | I can see that in such a case they might make a gift of paintings or other works of art for tax reasons , for example , and would n't care if they were sold or not . |
| 4 | By such a route they might escape from the niches of their birth , and gain access to something better — to better weapons , possibly to some real food different from synthcake and synthgruel . |
| 5 | Indeed , they may provide an alternative to timber in justifying the economic sense of allowing forests to stay put , because without such a reason they will be chopped down . |
| 6 | It 's a hundred a week they 'll have to do , per team . |