Example sentences of "[that] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Her fear was that it would stop in the tunnel .
2 He placed it so that it would shine into the right-hand corner of the wall by the fireplace .
3 In January Czechoslovakia announced that it would press for the withdrawal of 75,000 Soviet troops from its territory by the end of 1990 .
4 The Libyan government instead emphasized in a Foreign Ministry statement of March 26 that it would co-operate in the implementation of Resolution 731 , that the UN and the Arab League should work towards a " political solution " to the dispute , based on international law and the UN Charter , and that it would accept the forthcoming verdict by the International Court of Justice in the Hague ( ICJ ) .
5 that it would contribute to the regional greenfield land supply .
6 On Aug. 6 Islamic Jihad issued a statement saying that it would send within the next 48 hours " a special envoy " with an extremely important message to Pérez de Cuéllar .
7 Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class .
8 It was Mr. Newman 's submission that the matters to which regard should be had in the present case were ( 1 ) the lapse of time between the commission of the alleged offences and the request for extradition , and ( 2 ) the fact that the accusation against the applicant was contrary to the interests of justice , in that it would lead to the trial of the applicant in Sweden on the basis of the record of Price 's evidence , despite the fact that Price had subsequently retracted that evidence in this country in so far as it implicated the applicant .
9 Libya , Sudan , and Iraq supported the coup , saying that it would lead to the restoration of " international balance " .
10 Always during this period the same paper was used , although a rumour that it would change at the next sitting was constantly promulgated by dealers who had once cheated , to discourage others from doing likewise .
11 On the same day the Egyptian government made it clear that it would remain within the coalition even if Israel were to retaliate against Iraq , while a somewhat more ambiguous Syrian statement allowed the inference that a limited Israeli response , proportionate to the Iraqi attack , need not have adverse consequences for Syria 's participation in the coalition .
12 This glider looked sturdy enough , but he could n't be certain that it would return to the ground safely .
13 Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings .
14 Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings .
15 Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ?
16 The Progressive Democrats ( PD ) , the junior coalition partner with six members of parliament , had announced on Nov. 2 that it would vote against the government on the motion , tabled by the Labour Party .
17 While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces .
18 I refer , for example , to the Welsh health common services authority which , under the leadership of Brigadier Peter Crawley , decided that it would locate in the bay rather than at Merthyr Tydfil or some other place along the A470 — or even at the refurbished BBC studios building at Gabalfa , which is where we all thought that authority would go .
19 The move follows an announcement by British Coal after the recent energy review that it would offer to the private sector pits it no longer wanted to operate .
20 Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong .
21 Even so , our model of heroin ‘ epidemics ’ suggested that the rate of growth of the Wirral ‘ epidemic ’ was slowing up , and that it would peak during the late 1980s .
22 But this was limited to the eastern half of the county since the Lord Lieutenant , the Duke of Richmond , felt that it would interfere with the traditional authority of the magnates , and local opinion in the west deferred to this view until 1856 .
23 excluded judicial review on the ground that it would interfere with the exercise of a managerial function .
24 Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that .
25 Among such factions as may exist in a constituency party one is likely to be dominant , and to imagine that it would consent to the nomination of candidates not numbered among its adherents is scarcely realistic .
26 The principal remaining air link for Baghdad had been Iraqi Airlines flights to Amman , Jordan , and Jordan stated that it would comply with the mandatory resolution ; it remained illegal to open fire on civil aircraft .
27 During the election campaign the PCCh , which was not legalized , had announced on Nov. 9 , 1989 , that it would work for the victory of the presidential opposition candidate ; the former secretary-general of the PCCh , Luis Corvalán , who had returned to Chile on Oct. 12 after 13 years in exile , had made a similar declaration .
28 The Law Society announced today that it would appeal to the Court of Appeal against the Divisional Court 's refusal of its application for a declaration that the Lord Chancellor 's proposed standard fee scheme was unlawful .
29 A lawyer for the Brotherhood said that it would appeal to the High Administrative Court .
30 The government said that it would appeal against the decision which it called a " wilful violation of the law " .
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