Example sentences of "what they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they may not have realised is that that message conveyed itself to the American public ! |
| 2 | It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’ |
| 3 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 4 | But what they 'll probably do is sell those before they actually reach their premium . |
| 5 | But , it 'd be one thirty seven so what they 'll probably do is |
| 6 | Wha , what they 'll actually do er they 'll suspend your A A membership now for |
| 7 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 8 | Constitutions thus both liberate and bind ; they provide for a framework of ordered freedom within a set of rules which prevents both majorities and their elected representatives from doing what they might otherwise wish to do . |
| 9 | Faculty chairman Peter Wyman told ACCOUNTANCY : ‘ We are very concerned that the Revenue has started to use some of the anti-avoidance legislation to stop people doing what they might legitimately do to try to minimise their ACT problem . ’ |
| 10 | What they might not want , of course , is trees . |
| 11 | Seldom can a Committee of Inquiry have been told more firmly what they had to do , and what they might not do . |
| 12 | And what I 'm looking for , Coffin thought , is what they might not remember , the little details , the sequence of small events that might shift Ted Mosse into a different perspective . |
| 13 | But what they ca n't stand is that I hate them when they do n't behave in their own way . |
| 14 | and see if he can do something , well he 's in the , that , I should imagine he knows what they can earn and what they ca n't earn . |
| 15 | Guideline 21 : Tell children what they should do , as well as what they ca n't do . |
| 16 | What they ca n't do is upgrade everyone automatically — the cost would be too great . |
| 17 | The public like to come and see what they ca n't do . |
| 18 | So ba but what you are , but what you are telling , what you have told me is that erm there is , there is erm work being done to try and get people compensation in addition to what they would normally get |
| 19 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 20 | If a person is prevented from doing what they would otherwise intend or desire to do , or if they are coerced into doing what they would not otherwise want or desire to do , they are not acting autonomously . |
| 21 | It can be used to obtain responses from pupils beyond what they would otherwise achieve . |
| 22 | This has the effect of reducing both public expenditure and the budget deficit below what they would otherwise have been . |
| 23 | This may have had an effect on the conversation : first , in respect of the content , which may have been different from what they would otherwise have talked about , and secondly in that the girls may have tried consciously to use " Jamaican " . |
| 24 | The concept of enforcement involves — as the word implies — the use of force , compulsion : one man 's right is enforced by others being compelled to do what they would not have done of their own free will . |
| 25 | What they would not accept was that vain and dreadful C.P. Snow , whose appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology was as insulting to the scientific community as it was to the Labour Party . |
| 26 | One of the most useful things we can do is to find out from people what they would really like to happen and try to facilitate this . |
| 27 | Whether that would be in China or another country depended on the unknown factors of what they would actually find overseas and the outcome of developments in China . |
| 28 | The Lollard rising of Sir John Oldcastle in 1414 had no social aims ; indeed the rebels do not appear to have had any programme at all , beyond a vague idea of seizing the King ( without any very clear idea of what they would then do with him ) . |
| 29 | The nutter is acceptable in that he demonstrates to other fans what they should not do , and provides living proof of their own propriety . |
| 30 | The positive heuristic , that aspect of a research programme that indicates to scientists the kind of thing they should do rather than what they should not do , is somewhat vaguer and more difficult to characterize specifically than the negative heuristic . |