Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 2 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 3 | " Perhaps I should have let that precious mother of yours catch you sneaking back into the house . " |
| 4 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Swindon Town 's run of success nearly came to a stop at Luton on Wednesday night … you must have heard that favourite football cliche about there never being an easy game … it was one of those for Town … they missed Glenn Hoddle 's influence and never settled against a Luton side that need the points just as badly to save themselves from relegation … |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But , surely , he must have known that German sprint star Katrin Krabbe was banned after being positively tested for Clenbuterol ? |
| 9 | Indeed , pupils should come to realise that biased sources are often very valuable to the historian in revealing the attitudes and values of people in the past . |
| 10 | We must learn to recognize that environmental capital is just as much capital as man-made capital . |
| 11 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 12 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We decided to begin our search in the deep midwaters on the basis of the results mentioned above , even though , at first sight , biological considerations might have suggested that inshore waters were more promising . |
| 15 | Amongst other things , this ought to help to ensure that co-operative R ventures are favoured relative to co-operative D ventures . |
| 16 | In any case , wings which could have lifted that huge body would have been far too cumbersome when diving . |
| 17 | Or they could have sold that controlling interest to someone else — heaven help us ! |
| 18 | ‘ They certainly seemed to be enjoying themselves , ’ she said ; ‘ you 'd have thought that young man Danny had just won a Grand Prix instead of driving round a dodgem track . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , the vendor may attempt to argue that sufficient warranties are implied by statutes , such as the Sale of Goods Act 1979 , to obviate the need for warranties . |
| 20 | You may have noticed that recent issues of NOTES have given people with visual impairments the chance to have NOTES on a DOS text file on computer disk , to use with aids such as screen magnifiers , synthetic speech generators or electronic braille . |
| 21 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 22 | You may have noticed that social class is defined : |
| 23 | In the previous exercise you may have discovered that social class V had between 150 and 250 per cent as many stillbirths as social class I. Using Minitab instruction IRAN , create a column of random data in the range 150 to 250 . |
| 24 | The fact that precious metals have so often been minted to serve as coins may serve to emphasize that precious substances are by no means confined to the summits of ecclesiastical or temporal power , even if their most prestigious manifestations were formerly concentrated on these . |
| 25 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | However , they would like to confirm that other guitarists are being considered to replace him . |
| 28 | The New York office would like to know that little item of information , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 29 | Who now would dare to say that Standard English has any ultimate authority ? |
| 30 | In such cases , the district treasurer would have argued that financial control over the hospital remained with the traditional departmental budgets . |