Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winnicott observed that such ‘ transitional objects ’ were important , precisely because they may appear to the infant as not fully part of the external world , and therefore not entirely separate from the child 's own body . |
| 2 | Technocrats are ‘ statists ’ who consider that state policies are available to manage all social problems , although in selecting solutions they may lean to the right ( favouring market management and abhorring the inefficiencies of state socialism ) or to the left ( deploring the waste of social resources under capitalism ) . |
| 3 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 4 | Prisoners may complain to the prison authorities or they may complain to the Board of Visitors . |
| 5 | They may lead to the award of a masters ' degree , a postgraduate diploma or certificate , a post-experience diploma or certificate , or a second degree . |
| 6 | Transposons can also be thought of as parasites , although as yet we know little of the harm , or good , they may do to the host cell . |
| 7 | If the night is very cold or the middle of the day extremely hot , they may retreat to the galleries below ground level where the temperature does not vary so much . |
| 8 | Students may complete the course at diploma level , and if they attain a satisfactory standard in the diploma examinations , they may proceed to the masters ' course . |
| 9 | They may occur to the discoverer in a flash of inspiration , as in the mythical story of Newton 's discovery of the law of gravitation being triggered by his seeing an apple fall from a tree . |
| 10 | If any branch is not satisfied with the decision of the branch they may appeal to the Regional Committee . |
| 11 | One may be a reaction to the other , or they may amount to a tacit agreement on both sides that sexual attraction has become a thing of the past . |
| 12 | ‘ I scarcely know whether these remarks are intended as the mere superfluous assertion of an abstract right , or whether they are intended to imply a covert threat , that if the petitioners are dissatisfied with the answer to their application , they may resort to the extreme course of closing that useful place of veterinary education . |
| 13 | Consider the sentences in ( 10 ) with their sequences of verbs followed by adverbs or adverb phrases : ( 10 ) Farjeon clumsily undressed the refugees gazed hungrily into the window the ship was drifting almost imperceptibly to leeward In the last of these three cases nobody would understand the ship itself to be " almost imperceptible " ; in the second sentence , on the other hand , it is the refugees who are hungry ; gazes , whatever they may imply to a sensitive observer , do not experience hunger . |
| 14 | As we have seen in this chapter , however , the newcomers , no matter how monolithic and undifferentiated they may seem to the locals , are composed of a number of identifiably separate urban middle-class groups — commuters , weekend cottagers , holiday-home dwellers , retired couples — among whom the village may vary considerably as a centre of their social activities . |
| 15 | Knowing that these and similar things are being said , in order to commemorate past deeds , so that they may come to the notice of future generations , I have not been able to hide the struggles of the wicked or the lives of those who have lived righteously , even in much uncultivated speech . |
| 16 | They may belong to a minor αβ T-cell pathway in which DN DP transition occurs independently of TCR -β rearrangement or expression . |
| 17 | But if they suddenly have the urge to express their senior status in relation to a new pet in the home they may revert to the age-old manner of doing this , much to the distress of their well-meaning owners , who probably bought the new kitten as a special companion for the older cat . |
| 18 | Granted they may point to the assassination of Marie Drumm in hospital . |
| 19 | Whatever the validity of these observations , they are salutary warnings in moving over-boldly in the direction of student self-learning ; and they may point to the value of ensuring the existence of an adequately supportive learning environment . |
| 20 | Repatriation was not the concern of the embassy , they must go to the British Consulate , a little distance away on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 21 | The significant number of colour photographs , although they must contribute to the price , do add to the information content . |
| 22 | ‘ Borrowers can pay more when rates move up , but they must come to a branch to make a specific request to do so . ’ |
| 23 | Everything they grow they must take to the market to survive , but everything is expensive for them and so they have nothing . |
| 24 | In fact , if the social sciences are really to explain the social world , would it not be wiser to retreat from the demand that they must conform to a single standard of explanation , and allow instead that they may encompass a variety of projects ? |
| 25 | They must conform to the pattern and standard size laid down by the Post Office . |
| 26 | They must stick to the party line , and their Bible must be its manifesto . |
| 27 | He therefore decreed that before either could reproduce they must fight to the death , with the flesh from the loser being fed to deserving men . |
| 28 | They must listen to the voice of the MCC , ’ he said . |
| 29 | They must belong to the period 190–170 B.C. Ben Sira had wandered abroad ( 51.13 ) , and his ideal scribe was a man who had travelled " through the lands of the peoples " and had tested " good and evil among men " ( 39.4 ) . |
| 30 | There was a good number present and the main business of the day required the club to decide on the donations they should make to the women 's section and other charities . |