Example sentences of "they [vb infin] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how would they explain the recent experience of one of our hack 's friend . |
| 2 | Only if would-be parents fully understand about mental handicap can they make the right sort of rational decisions when faced with these circumstances and face the situation with a true sense of proportion . |
| 3 | Neither in Germany nor in the Habsburg empire did they make the slightest difference to the way in which foreign policy was decided and carried out . |
| 4 | Is it that would they make the same kind of comment to one of their male students , like ‘ that 's a nice jumper you 've got on ’ , something like that ? |
| 5 | How could they cover the sensible , everyday clothes of Philip Doyle ? |
| 6 | But why do n't they want the stable lads to know what weights ? |
| 7 | Without the services of their women , how would they survive the day-by-day attrition of factions and envy and corruption and ambition , the quotidian burden of poverty and grind and illness ? |
| 8 | Would they survive the surgical cut I was contemplating ? |
| 9 | Only then will they win the middle ground , and only then will they give their policies a chance to persist when they have moved out of office . |
| 10 | Nor do they know the complete genetic formula of any animal . |
| 11 | Culley and Jackson did n't know one another , did they know the same thing . |
| 12 | If the Everton board - and remember they have given no indication of doing so - were to replace Howard , would they promise the new manager money ? |
| 13 | For example , in stimulating the development of community formularies , or in setting indicative budgets , do they take a broad view of cost ( beyond the price of the medicines themselves ) and do they consider the relative effectiveness of medicines ? |
| 14 | The next question is , could they enjoy the great outdoors without actually camping ? |
| 15 | The final stage of class consciousness and class solidarity is reached when members realize that only by collective action can they overthrow the ruling class and when they take positive steps to do so . |
| 16 | Do they demonstrate the main point of Thomson 's discussion ( i.e. the diverse but inter-connected nature of the revolution ) ? |
| 17 | And how many , did they do the whole estate or |
| 18 | ‘ These figures do not include uncollected VAT , nor do they show the unrecovered sums due to non-payment of poll tax . ’ |
| 19 | Do they remember the remote past better than the recent past ? |
| 20 | Only then did they see the great livid gashes that no man could have inflicted raked along both Ranks . |
| 21 | Would they look the same ? |
| 22 | To what extend would they understand the western methods of book promotion ? |
| 23 | Service occupations are not restricted to the service industries , nor , as indicated above , do they constitute the total workforce of service industries . |
| 24 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 25 | First , an existing management problem — how do they provide the best possible for those already in residential homes ? secondly — a development problem — how to use valuable resources — staff and buildings in the future . |
| 26 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 27 | Only then can they set the appropriate level of interest rates . |
| 28 | Run by the parishes or by groups of parishes , workhouses never produced an output which even repaid the purchase of raw materials , nor did they meet the vaunted secondary objective of training the poor in the " habits of industry " . |
| 29 | How did they keep , how did they stop the flaming thing from snaking them all , you know ? |
| 30 | Even if teachers are involved do they have the requisite skills ? |