Example sentences of "[that] it [modal v] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there was little doubt that it would happen , and that this revolution will change the world . |
| 2 | And my grandmother said that it would happen . |
| 3 | What I did not realise at the time , but discovered later , was that Mrs Singh had no idea that transfer next September had been suggested — she expected that it would happen straight away . |
| 4 | But they all arrived at different times , because Frith made sure that it would happen so . |
| 5 | He had never dreamed that it would happen to him . |
| 6 | Just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 7 | er just praying er just praying that it would happen for her . |
| 8 | One way to express the answer is that it might happen by ‘ chance ’ . |
| 9 | They commemorated that earlier tragedy with a premonition that it might happen again . |
| 10 | And nor is there now , he might have added , because William was obsessed with the idea that it might happen again ; that it might be happening now , the next chance encounter between the marmot and the rat — or whatever their modern equivalent . |
| 11 | Obviously the owner of the cottage had never been burgled and did n't really believe that it might happen ; there was a new-looking bolt at the bottom of the kitchen door that had n't been shot . |
| 12 | We shall take into consideration the possibility that it might happen , but it would be dreadful if it did . " |
| 13 | As for the family they 're still frightened and they 're scared that it might happen again . |
| 14 | What Gunn means by this is , I think , that everyone realises the risks but yet we all feel a tendency to delude ourselves of any possibility that it might happen to us . |
| 15 | It was an impressive sight , and one that frightened me a little at first , just because it was such a huge change and I was worried that it might happen to the island sometime . |
| 16 | McCowan LJ held that : The history of the interpretation of the 1861 Act shows that , whether or not the word " maliciously " appears in the section in question , the Courts have consistently held that the mens rea of every type of offence against the person covers both actual intent and recklessness , in the sense of taking the risk of harm ensuing with foresight that it might happen . |
| 17 | You had an idea that it might happen ? ’ |
| 18 | They never dreamt that it could happen cos she was n't in the risk age group or anything , it just never crossed their minds that it might happen and they were totally well they just did n't know what to think . |
| 19 | Another explanation of the self-cure phenomenon as it occurs in the field is based on the observation that it may happen in lambs and adults contemporaneously and on pasture with insignificant numbers of infective larvae . |
| 20 | I mean , do the other do these things happen in cycles and tha you know , is it possible that it 'll happen again on a greater scale ? |
| 21 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 22 | ‘ But that it should happen to me ! |
| 23 | That it should happen here , it made a cage inside a cage . |
| 24 | locally er there is no as far as I know no , no requirement that it should happen except the desire of the Home Secretary to strengthen his control or his influence in , in these bodies . |
| 25 | Believe totally that it will happen . |
| 26 | There is no certainty that it will happen but it is possible that the deaf people of this country and of other EC countries stand on the threshold of a breakthrough in their fortunes . |
| 27 | I think first of all Chairman , the point about the Airport 's Policy Consortium that er it is relevant erm , er perhaps you realise the whole purpose of , the risk of debt of the Airport 's Policy Consortium is to actually push er development from Heathrow to Stansted and I would say that it will happen , that 's what they are trying to do . |
| 28 | But it it 's sods law that it will happen there is n't a lady there behind the bar . |
| 29 | ‘ The point is that it will happen anyway , ’ says Ditton . |
| 30 | There is still quite a lot of opposition , so I do n't think it 's , it 's a certainty , but I would certainly very much hope and believe that this is the will of God for the Church and that , that it will happen . |