Example sentences of "they [modal v] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may as a result lack the confidence to raise a concern about child sexual abuse despite government advice following the inquiry that the possibility should be considered in the differential diagnosis of many physical conditions . |
| 2 | The point is if taxpayers have entered into arrangements to seek to avoid TA 1988 , ss739 and 749 ( the two ugly sisters ) they must as a matter of proper form check to see that there is no tax liability under general principles and no tax liability under one or other of the sections contained within Part XV of TA 1988 . |
| 3 | People who think they 're being persecuted always think people are paying them a great deal of attention so they come to believe that they must in a sense be very important people , ’ he said . |
| 4 | One reason why students do n't do as well as they should at A level is that they ca n't express themselves . |
| 5 | If development ceases , the pupils will not benefit as much as they should at a time in their education which will never be repeated and one which therefore could never be made up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would , of course , be far fetched to compare the plight of the French fighting the Japanese in Vietnam with that of the Polish Home Army who had been destroyed fighting the Germans in Warsaw in 1944 although , in one respect at least , the failure of the proximate military power to lend assistance meant that others , who were more responsive to the plight of the Poles and the French , did what they could from a distance to help . |
| 11 | These changes introduced by 12 year-old children are precisely the type of text feature which Marshall and Glock found to be essential if poor readers were to learn all they could from a passage . |
| 12 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 13 | Treasure Trove laws do not apply to fossils any more than they would to a lump of raw gold or a precious stone imbedded in rock . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Of course they would for a start , I have n't done anything , all that sort of business , but he was extremely good and I think the reason that he 'd got admissions quicker than we did , was partly by virtue of the fact that he was the boss of the department . |
| 16 | Together they would from a longitudinal engine . |
| 17 | Residents should be able to live as far as possible as they would in a home of their own . |
| 18 | At extremely fast tempos this lilt is lost and they even out as they would in a funk or fusion context . |
| 19 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Erm and I guess they will to a degree . |
| 23 | Lack of awareness of the world around you , and a mind which has no ideas of its own , will show up to greater disadvantage in direct comparison with your fellow interviewees than they will in a one-to-one interview . |
| 24 | Here the parachutes are of a different design , less easily guided and the team land on or as near they can to a four hundred metre line from two thousand feet . |
| 25 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 26 | They can in a matter of milliseconds make a transition from the liquid state to a ‘ weak solid ’ state with solid-like properties . |
| 27 | It is not as efficient as either in their own fields , but performs very much better than they can in a situation where a significant enquiry facility is necessary and where the data is frequently processed sequentially . |
| 28 | Yes and Forest have got to find a better route to goal than that and we 'll find out whether they can in a few moments . |