Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] [adj] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 2 | Consistency with the argument presented earlier would seem to demand that such a couple should enjoy all rights and privileges available to a ‘ married ’ couple . |
| 3 | An unexpressed term can be implied if and only if the court finds that the parties must have intended that term to form part of their contract : it is not enough for the court to find that such a term would have been adopted by the parties as reasonable men if it had been suggested to them . |
| 4 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 5 | It is important to remember that such a campaign would be conducted against the background of the economy moving back to full employment , and therefore of an increasing range of job opportunities for school-leavers . |
| 6 | Would it be heresy to suggest that such a committee need not be composed entirely of educationists and should not be composed entirely of specialists in curriculum development . |
| 7 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 8 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 9 | It seems most unlikely that the testator had any intention of this sort ; and it is pointless to assert that such a decision would have been impossible in a legacy , since the whole context — a disposition charged on a non-heir — is one in which a legacy could not have functioned . |
| 10 | It would be an oversimplification to reduce the complex ideology of the movement to the positions of a minority within it , or to assume that such a viewpoint will necessarily prevail . |
| 11 | This is not to say that the overshadowing mechanism is not operating here or to deny that such a mechanism may be responsible in other cases for observed acquired distinctiveness effects . |
| 12 | But it was essential for the beneficiaries to insist that such a policy should not be stultified by plunder , wanton destruction , reckless deployment of military force and general contempt for the welfare of the provincials . |
| 13 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 14 | Since then the sea defences have been built up to ensure that such a disaster will not strike again . |
| 15 | None of us , however , is naive enough to believe that such a buy-out will necessarily succeed in every case . |
| 16 | But the fact that we should now have come to believe that such a society might be both possible and desirable is certainly interesting . |
| 17 | It is difficult to believe that such a mechanism could have predicted the success of a full size lift . |
| 18 | Looking back afterwards , Florrie found it hard to believe that such a tragedy could have arisen from such trivial , everyday circumstances . |
| 19 | It is important to recognise that such a circumstance may have significant psychological implications for the self-images of the individuals concerned : not only do they have less than everyone else , but they may feel and see themselves as different — less significant , less integrated , almost outside the mainstream of society . |
| 20 | The problem then arises , even if the court is prepared to consider that such a term should be implied , as to what is the period of time that should be considered reasonable . |
| 21 | It is important to appreciate that all a neurone can do is to transmit impulses at varying frequencies . |
| 22 | Indeed there may be reason to think that such a dichotomy can not for ever persist . |