Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not all want to leave the Soviet Union ( indeed , whatever shape it takes in the future , Mr Yeltsin 's Russia will expect to be leader of the pack ) , but neither do the union 's supporters want to hand back the new economic and political freedoms that they have won . |
| 2 | The statistical techniques of time series analysis ( autocorrelation functions and power spectra ) enabled at least three low frequency components of lymph-node movement to be recognised , though they may not all be active at the same time . |
| 3 | They may not all be required in every report you write , but you must be familiar with their functions . |
| 4 | And whether they 're all compound , they may not all be compound . |
| 5 | Depending on the variety of sounds you had included in your check list , they may or they may not all be the same . |
| 6 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 7 | Some youngsters have protested , claiming that they should not all ‘ be tarred with the same brush ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ They should n't all be gone . ’ |
| 9 | Erm they 'll probably all common off quite a bit . |
| 10 | They could n't all be following me , of course not . |
| 11 | Of course they could n't all be allowed to hide behind the columns of the nave or squat upon the font , and so the stewards took down the barriers and let them flood into my side . |
| 12 | Surely they could n't all have repeated that word in unison , turning their faces towards each other , like a Greek chorus . |
| 13 | They could n't all just reject facts because they offended their sensibilities . |
| 14 | They could n't all be bad and evil . |
| 15 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 16 | But they could not all go , for if the attempt failed , there must be those left to command the main army . |
| 17 | The friends of Montrose who supported the various candidates were very troublesome , for political management required careful and friendly replies , and it was clear that they could not all be given the answers they expected or hoped to receive . |
| 18 | Jannie , Bob , old Harry Stearns , Bill Waddy , Gareth Holmroyd — they could scarcely all be wrong . |
| 19 | Or the fall out about it they could still all three prove . |
| 20 | Nobody working in the mill for they 'd not much to do in the mill . |
| 21 | Even though the specific predictions of Engels might not be endorsed by modern anthropologists they would nearly all subscribe to the general thesis that as political and economic conditions change , so will marriage and the family change , and this conclusion is apparently still seen as shocking . |
| 22 | If the planets had simply been ‘ collected ’ by the Sun in its travels they would not all have similar orbital configurations . |
| 23 | For they would not that burden should be borne all by the crown . |
| 24 | They would n't all have been killed in their beds . |
| 25 | Same sort of thing but obviously th , they would n't those would be a lot nicer there I think . |
| 26 | Yes , they would eventually all go . |
| 27 | What is interesting is that for the first time individual patrols would have radio communication via jeep-mounted No. 11 radio sets , but in the event of breakdowns they would also each take two pigeons . |
| 28 | By Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 , he thought he must have told the admiral that : he was going to destroy that one , and then they would really all be gone . |
| 29 | Then they would suddenly all rise up as one , their great wings sweeping them rhythmically over the water , their legs stretched behind them , thousands of them flying above that great lake . |
| 30 | Leith got started on her work , doubting very much that they would so much as catch a glimpse of their new ‘ colleagues ’ , but she had to smile at his quaint terminology for the higher ranks . |