Example sentences of "and [noun pl] they [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further problem is that in most cases the witnesses ’ recollections of the events may have been biased by descriptions already given in interviews with the police and discussions they may have had with others . |
| 2 | Having discovered that if he took cinchona or Peruvian bark , from which quinine is derived , he developed the symptoms and signs of intermittent fever ( malaria ) , and knowing that cinchona was an effective treatment for malaria , Hahnemann went on to experiment with other substances in use at the time to see what symptoms and signs they would produce . |
| 3 | It is the job of those responsible for managing that plant and that technology to be thinking furiously what the next step is , and what changes and improvements they can see , because if you are not doing this your competitors will . |
| 4 | They think , perhaps , more in terms of what knowledge and skills they would hope to find in a secondary school entrant rather than of those one might expect from a child who had successfully completed a primary school course . |
| 5 | They visited all the factories and shops they could squeeze into their brief , allotted time and the highlight of their visit was a Silver Anniversary Ball when 700 people gathered at the leisure centre near Deeside , Queensferry . |
| 6 | Motability can provide the names of professional organisations who can assess the needs of the disabled person and advise them whether or not they are capable of driving and what sort of car and adaptations they might need . |
| 7 | Like big monsters and chariots they will become the target of every bowman and war machine that can fire at them , so it 's no use sending a Pump Wagon out on its own as it will just get shot up . |
| 8 | On mountain flanks within 5° of the South Pole they cover less than 1% of the ground ; on damper coastal flats and uplands they may spread to 15% cover or even more . |
| 9 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 10 | She took a great interest in the kitchen garden too , and calculated with pleasure how many greengages and damsons they would have , how many cherries and pears and strawberries . |
| 11 | Acknowledge your audience 's status through using language they can understand , and ideas they can identify with . |
| 12 | They usually incorporate internal steel members for extra strength , and because of the relatively large cross-section of the various stiles and rails they can make an appropriate replacement for many older-style houses with timber windows . |
| 13 | Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village , and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions . |
| 14 | ( 10 ) Because members of the Panel executive and the full Panel are often seconded from merchant banks , stockbrokers , firms of solicitors and accountants they may have to excuse themselves from dealing with any case which involves their employing company or firm . |
| 15 | They are possessed of a handful of skills and attributes which many of the rest of us lack , such as numeracy , and a general ungullability , and ( presumably ) a penchant for cryptography , so that they can actually penetrate and comprehend the tortuous laws and regulations they must administer . |
| 16 | It is pointed out that more manpower in R&D will be needed to cope with the additional design changes and modifications they will produce . |
| 17 | And painters and joiners they would have themselves . |
| 18 | Both self-employed , and having the required skills , the two set about raising the £150 they would each need to pay for the journey as well as the tools and materials they would need . |
| 19 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
| 20 | ‘ For one thing we 've hardly seen Tara and , for another , we do n't know what kind of spells and enchantments they might have strewn about . ’ |
| 21 | Serious RP gamers tend to be the sort of nylon misfits who have no social life and can afford to spend the best part of a month mapping out Narnia-esque landscapes and jotting down all the facts and clues they can glean from meeting a variety of talking mushrooms and jovial trolls . |
| 22 | But for some rebels and waverers they will become ‘ redundant ’ to the party organisation . |
| 23 | Humans are all Yahoos , and Yahoos they will remain . |
| 24 | But to commuters and shoppers in Manchester , already used to the avenues of poles carrying overhead power lines and the herringbone-brick trackbeds in the streets , trams they are and trams they will remain . |
| 25 | In working clothes and boots they would have walked through , but they were wearing Sunday white stockings and thin shoes which they did not want to ruin . |
| 26 | They strip the leaves and often the bark off all the trees and shrubs they can reach . |
| 27 | With his teachings and observances they could sing and dance , laugh and exult before God — as David did of old , as other psalmists did , as Miriam the prophetess and Moses himself did in his own Victory Song over the Egyptians . |
| 28 | ‘ But when the pair of youse has got enough sense you can fight them off for me and all the damn priests and nuns they 'll bring along with them . ’ |
| 29 | They had to keep the river streams all flowing and if there was any deluge of rain and stones they would have to keep all the pools in good order and they would |
| 30 | He already visits Aycliffe junior and infant school where he helps the pupils make bird and bat nesting boxes and hopes they will start a School Club , along with Woodham School and Longfield Comprehensive , in Darlington . |