Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has claimed that statutory controls would ‘ stifle new developments and new jobs in the Highlands and Islands and raise costs when we face tough competition from efficient producers in Europe and elsewhere ’ . |
| 2 | Although Digital has never put a figure on the number involved in what it terms the downsizing of its operations , the company 's president , Robert Palmer , has said that those figures would not be out of line . |
| 3 | He says research has shown that many people would be incapable of driving safely over long distances in the early afternoon even after one drink . |
| 4 | Our other research has shown that some adults would prefer not to take up a full-time course and so lose the income from a full-time job . |
| 5 | We would never have produced such alternatives because experience has shown that enormous pressure would be placed on the auditor to move something in or out of normalised earnings . ’ |
| 6 | Valerie conducted a survey of parents in the village and has found that 30 children would definitely want to attend the school , and another 26 have expressed an interest . |
| 7 | They further suggest that regional planning would limit any unconstrained growth arising from operating what is essentially a reimbursement system . |
| 8 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 9 | One afternoon in late October we heard on a local radio station that someone , claiming to speak for Islamic Jihad , had phoned to announce that two Americans would be executed . |
| 10 | Indeed , social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution . |
| 11 | This might simply be the expression of a natural hauteur , or even of a Puritan dislike for self-revelation ; he also seemed to fear that other people would " take advantage " of him but , more importantly , there is a sense in which he felt threatened by the personalities of others — as if he might be invaded by them . |
| 12 | At first , he 'd worried that Amber Epipheny would be jealous of him , and wondered whether she 'd confront him about the matter . |
| 13 | The one who was born Greek and fluent , had lost his baggage , presumably in transit in London , and wanted action , and seemed to think that young Erlich would do the needful . |
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| 15 | He is understood to feel that compulsory sales would break up historic estates . |
| 16 | In any case , wings which could have lifted that huge body would have been far too cumbersome when diving . |
| 17 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 18 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |
| 19 | The compilers of the BMA code of practice for the safe use and disposal of sharps must have thought that many practitioners would be unable to comply with universal precautions because the code suggested that gloving decreased manual dexterity . |
| 20 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 21 | For example , in Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 ( CA ) , such an instruction is necessary only where the accused might have thought that ordinary people would regard his conduct as honest . |
| 22 | One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility . |
| 23 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 24 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 25 | There was no evidence that the defendants were aware of the existence of those whom their conduct offended , although the court said that there was evidence from which the magistrates were entitled to infer that the appellants ‘ must have known that other people would be likely to be present . ’ |
| 26 | Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) . |
| 27 | We might wish to say that any accountant would produce the same set of accounts from the same data . |
| 28 | Most liberals , if asked in 1979 what would be the effect of a rise in unemployment to well over 3 million would have predicted that democratic government would be made impossible . |
| 29 | I could never have expressed that wish so long as my father was alive , for I had been trained to think that such sentiments would hurt him . |
| 30 | Although the two systems of government differ in a number of key respects , sufficient similarities exist to suggest that further work would be justified . |