Example sentences of "they [modal v] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and one of them may decide that he was going to another job anyway , you know , and he would leave and somebody else would be brought in and what have you . |
| 2 | He need not return them to the seller , who if he wants them must come and collect them , section 36 . |
| 3 | Two shipwrecked men in a boat have only enough food for one , so that one of them must die if the other is to live . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , to ‘ protect ’ them might mean that they ended up with no jobs at all . |
| 5 | Mike Pumfrey had wondered whether the two of them might sit and talk things over in the two easy chairs stained , dusty , pre-war relics , that squatted capaciously in the far corner of the study . |
| 6 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 7 | No one reading them could conclude that the Agency would allow anyone to suppose industrial co-operatives were in any way exempt from commercial discipline . |
| 8 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 9 | None of them could play or sing in tune , and Charlie , who fancied himself on skins , had no real idea of rhythm . |
| 10 | The most ambitious of them could see that the largest gains were to be made in politics , and to politics they turned . |
| 11 | He spoke with awe and fear in his voice , and as if he believed that only Minch herself among all of them could know and understand what might be in Men 's minds . |
| 12 | Funnily enough , none of them would drink and drive or not wear a seatbelt . ’ |
| 13 | So the moment the shout was heard , one of them would rush and then try to provide what was wanted on the instant . |
| 14 | Interchanging them would mean that instead of having an electron " here " and an electron " here " I had an electron " here " and an electron " here " . |
| 15 | Anyone looking at the two of them would think that they were lovers . |
| 16 | Sometimes , some of them would try and be clever and just step off the pavement . |
| 17 | They formed a great circle round the very centre of the site , where most eagles had died , and long lines across the moor , pointing to the north , south , east and west , that all who saw them would remember that man and eagle should be as one . |
| 18 | They are now mothers with the responsibility for a child , and some of them would maintain that it is their baby that has given them the determination to do something more with their lives , however hard this may be . |
| 19 | Each time he tried to overtake , one of them would signal and pull out . |
| 20 | Often one of them would faint and be left prostrate until the end . |
| 21 | Pete 's guess was that everybody in the valley knew something about her by now , and nearly all of them would know that she was staying in his house . |
| 22 | Neither of them would know until his death , for instance , that he had a godson . |
| 23 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |
| 24 | In abstract they may admire and be excited by them , but their day-to-day preference is for women who want to please them and do n't make too much of a fuss . |
| 25 | They may grieve or worry for a while , but will work towards improving their situation , first by acceptance , and eventually coming to view the set-back as an impetus for change and growth . |
| 26 | Sandwiched between the sufferers and the directors or managers of the institution in which they work ( or overwhelmed by the pressures of survival if they work on their own ) they may expect or be expected to carry and solve the burdens of both . |
| 27 | The testator hints that if they do a good job they may expect as their reward that their sons will be made over into their power . |
| 28 | They may scoff and call them Yob and co , but the revolution that these firms have brought to the legal market is probably here to stay . |
| 29 | Other Acts of Parliament merely grant local authorities powers , which they may choose whether or not to use . |
| 30 | To start unravelling stress ‘ from the bottom ’ they may invent or seek a range of tension-reducing activities , which we might group into two categories , those that relax softly and gently , and those that involve a more vigorous release . |