Example sentences of "they [modal v] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the process of renewing their legitimacy they may at the same time uphold general labour rights . |
| 2 | Claims may not include mesne profits as they may in the High Court , but are confined to claims for non-payment of rent . |
| 3 | As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings . |
| 4 | It seems fatuous to condemn companies like this for functioning as they must in the industrial and political context in which they find themselves . |
| 5 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 6 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |
| 7 | They could see that there were problems presented in the work of Davy or Faraday ; and if they were lucky they might in a later course see the problem solved , only as ever to raise more . |
| 8 | The issue never addressed is the level to which interest rates should be reduced to enable British industry to compete effectively , let alone give it an edge over the rest of the industrialised world — probably because they have not reached such a level for decades ; nor is there reason to hope they might in the foreseeable future . . |
| 9 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , we can not blame the system altogether , as many people do n't think ahead and make the provision they could for a reasonable income in retirement . |
| 11 | So they drank it , and ate what they could of the unprepossessing fare , conscious of the hostile gaze of the stuffed fish in the corner . |
| 12 | United were unlucky on Saturday … nothing they could about the first Lincoln goal … a blockbuster … from Baraclough … |
| 13 | United were unlucky on Saturday … nothing they could about the first Lincoln goal … a blockbuster … from Baraclough … |
| 14 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 15 | They slotted them in as best they could on the flat seat backs . |
| 16 | Well the servants three servants are given one talent and their master tells them to erm do with it what they could in a certain space of time and he would reward them . |
| 17 | Both men started to dress , taking it in turns to wash as best they could in the small sink perched on the cell wall . |
| 18 | Nor can they reduce the burden of government debt by inflation , as they could in the 1970s , because the abolition of capital controls prevents it . |
| 19 | A row of limp , blank faced figures sat in front of the windows , begging what they could from the steady stream of shoppers . |
| 20 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
| 22 | Into the less cerebral atmosphere of a detective novel it is likely , too , that you will find opportunities for scenes of action , and that they will seem less like seized-on injections of pep-up dope than they would amid the logical probings of the puzzle story . |
| 23 | Yes , I think you would find that everywhere people will crowd into especially post-impressionism , which is Van Gogh , etc. , more than they would into an avant-garde exhibition . |
| 24 | This means that students then have the chance to present themselves as they would at a working audition , and this is often quite a good place to attract attention . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ said Milton , ‘ I have to admit that if you 're very old , short-term solutions must carry more weight than they would for the middle-aged . |
| 26 | We like the green landscape , the simple food , the reserved people , and our children do n't wilt in the heat as they would on the Amalfi coast . |
| 27 | Together they would from a longitudinal engine . |
| 28 | Likewise , in certain regular grammatical re-formulations the parts of an idiom may behave as they would in a transparent expression : thus we have a leg-pull , formed on the same pattern as hand-shake . |
| 29 | Another problem arises from the form of the inscriptions ; most are lists of short , terse statements — objects , numbers and dedicatees — and many of the words are proper names , so it is possible to make false interpretations without the errors becoming apparent subsequently , as they would in a longer and more connected text . |
| 30 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |