Example sentences of "to [pron] they [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 2 | The RECs can generate electricity on their own account but are strictly limited in the extent to which they can do so . |
| 3 | The extent to which they will do so , of course , depends on their personal attraction to the ideals of the Convention and the jurisprudence of its court . |
| 4 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 5 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 6 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 7 | Their measure of their health status was related to what they could do , rather than to the presence of current disease or conditions . |
| 8 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 9 | When the time came there was not much doubt as to what they should do . |
| 10 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 11 | P. A friendly person , someone who is good to session with , someone who can appreciate someone else 's skating and not to judge them as to what they can do but also who they are and how they are . |
| 12 | When you are talking about 12,000 children , many only young teenagers , there is a limit to what they can do for themselves and the help of the aid community is obviously vital . |
| 13 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |
| 14 | While ‘ real consciousness ’ might be what people in a given group actually think , it does not necessarily correspond to what they will do or how they will respond to changes either in their situation or in the information they have . |