Example sentences of "they [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Failure to observe them may result in the withdrawal of occupational sick pay and/or statutory sick pay . |
| 2 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 3 | The letter " 0 " has many lines of symmetry though all of them must pass through the centre of the letter . |
| 4 | The garden for them should feel like an extra sitting room , gnat-ridden perhaps , damp occasionally , but an important overflow of living space . |
| 5 | The founding brothers never entrusted anything to paper , fearing that rituals and their interpretation of them might fall into the wrong hands . |
| 6 | Secondly , the triangular relationship between the UK , the USA and the European Community will be examined in order to assess how civil aviation between them might develop in the near future . |
| 7 | The original band of brothers in the primal horde were excluded from sexual intercourse with any women by their father , and they formed a group , based on homosexual feelings , to perform the act that no one of them could do as a sole individual , namely , to kill their father . |
| 8 | The trust said the prices would generally amount to about two-thirds of their market value and those who could not afford to buy them could rent through a housing association . |
| 9 | The slightest move by either of them could result in the encounter of a foot or , worse still , the brushing of knees . |
| 10 | Either one of them could walk through the door into the hall and end this angry and unhappy meeting . |
| 11 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 12 | The aunts would reply indignantly that they only wanted to help , whereupon Addy would shout from the kitchen that if either of them could cook worth a damn perhaps they could be something other than a bloody nuisance . |
| 13 | As of the end of June 1991 at least six of these statutes were undergoing the process of appeal which would almost certainly bring them eventually to the Supreme Court , where any of them could serve as the occasion for the reversal of the 1973 landmark abortion rights ruling , Roe v. Wade . |
| 14 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 15 | It is clear that neither of them could call on the personal loyalty of the royal servants in the duchy . |
| 16 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 17 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 18 | A It is unfortunate that you have used only ‘ common ’ names , as some of them could apply to a number of species . |
| 19 | Some of them used to come to the Accademia and to me they 're still welcome if they want to come and speak . |
| 20 | This was now attempted , but I got nowhere near finding out , because none of them would estimate over the phone . |
| 21 | To answer them would go beyond the scope of this book . |
| 22 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 23 | ‘ Shelley was elevated to the Bible this morning , ’ one of them would whisper to the other , but they were fond of Mabel and would never hurt her . |
| 24 | They derive their strength from the realization that not to abide by them would make for an unworkable constitution . |
| 25 | But the attempt to hold them would lead to an even bigger crisis between president and legislature . |
| 26 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 27 | She knew what results in work a given number of them would produce in a given space of time . |
| 28 | They dumped his body outside the Hizbollah 's offices with a note saying that the rest of them would die in a similar fashion if the three diplomats were not released . |
| 29 | Together they had three children , all of them would die in the fire . |
| 30 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |