Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hence , when money wages are rising , workers may , rightly or wrongly , credit such rises to unions and hope that by beginning or continuing to support them they will do as well or even better in the future ’ ( Bain and Elsheikh , 1976 , p. 64 ) . |
| 2 | It 's their duty to find somebody they can convict of Maurice 's murder . ’ |
| 3 | In his absence , the judge told the jury of 7 men and 5 women that they were about to discover something they may find interesting . |
| 4 | Later on , whenever our friends on a visit happened to meet him they would ask : ‘ Is he really a vicar ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ To catch it they would need to go in the opposite direction first to Thornaby station , where parking is limited . |
| 6 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 7 | They often work out-of-uniform , giving expert advice free of charge , to anyone who wants to know what they can do to prevent crime . |
| 8 | ‘ We certainly do n't want to alarm anyone , but it is important for people to know what they can do in advance to prepare their homes against damage . ’ |
| 9 | If change is treated at the large-scale level , teachers , non-teaching staff , governors and parents can not deny the consequences of local financial management : " Pushing management decisions — for instance , about staffing complements and who should be appointed and dismissed — down to the schools will make it extremely important to know what they will do with their new-found power " ( Maclure 1990:9 ) . |
| 10 | It is important to establish empathy with patients who have visual problems in order to discover what they might find helpful , and what is required for independence to be maintained or regained . |
| 11 | To extrapolate what they might say about women 's experience under patriarchy on the basis of comments about the reading material they choose is quite a leap . |
| 12 | I think they 'd say that they 'd like to see an officer in a car because they do n't see anybody , what they really mean they want to see somebody they can talk |
| 13 | He prefers simply to place the issues before them , and allow them to make their own moral decisions and to choose what they might want to do . |
| 14 | A coastguard said : ‘ People are trying to nick everything they can lay their hands on . ’ |
| 15 | A coastguard said : ‘ People are trying to nick everything they can lay their hands on . ’ |
| 16 | you 've got your copies of it , if you , you happen to tear one they can give you another copy like that . |
| 17 | I 'm a bit worried about that song , if Chas ‘ n ’ Dave get to hear it they might declare a fatwah . ’ |
| 18 | Armed with their set of personal educational objectives , doctors are in a much better position to identify what they can learn from their day to day work . |
| 19 | After that , they broke in and began to steal whatever they could carry away — little things at first , like crockery and silver , but later on the furniture went as well . |
| 20 | THE villagers listened patiently as a very senior policeman tried to persuade them they could do without their village bobby . |
| 21 | If the police wish to detain him they must place him under arrest . |
| 22 | I think if they really want to do it they should go ahead and do it because it 's not going to get any easier . |
| 23 | To call someone a nutter , however , is not to use what they would see as a term of abuse . |
| 24 | I 'm going to use what they can give me and try and make them look good . |
| 25 | The danger for Leeds was that as they began to over-extend themselves they would become exposed at the back , where they are at their weakest . |
| 26 | It 's not a bad place , but erm I think in common with a lot of other universities , well , all universities , some of the excitement , enthusiasm has gone , because people no longer have the chance to do what they would want to do . |
| 27 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 28 | I suggest that we do the usual thing of passing that one round so that if anybody wants to read it they can read it . |
| 29 | Even though you quite like their records they 're all dull old spuds and you just have to interpret what they 'd say if they were literate . |
| 30 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |