Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 They were the first to say that they would prefer to trust all this to people who knew something about education .
2 In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them .
3 On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ?
4 The majority of the responses indicated that they would like to receive these digests on a quarterly basis .
5 But when he surmised the attack was due that night , Tom Ingledew agreed that they would have to sacrifice some fighting capacity on that front — and even some lives — in order to gain the maximum advantage from keeping the sloop as a decoy .
6 It was clear , too , that they would have to do this together .
7 " We had hoped that they would have eliminated that shortcoming from their safety systems .
8 If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract .
9 Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and .
10 The DHAC announced that the exercise would be repeated the following weekend ; although the police warned that they would have to intervene this time , the demonstration went ahead and was extended to forty-eight hours .
11 One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time .
12 After watching them for a while I suggested that they might try to keep most numbers constant and change just one .
13 It is a constant concern that they might have achieved much more if services had been better and that they may regress if services do n't improve .
14 Yet what brought Edward to heel temporarily at least — was a baronial threat that they might have to find another king if he would not keep his coronation oath , which in their minds meant observing the Ordinances .
15 That they may have obtained some of their supplies of ivory from that quarter is suggested by finds of this material at the intermediate entrepot of Bahrain .
16 But they still hold substantial portfolios of international shares and the fear is that they could attempt to sell these , setting off a chain reaction in other financial markets .
17 I have dealt with reasonably intelligent people who have discovered that they could have claimed more money .
18 However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them .
19 Why is it that they should have had more faith ?
20 The researchers warn that they will have to treat many more patients before they can report a cure , and that the expense and difficulty of obtaining bone marrow are likely to limit the number of possible treatments .
21 Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run .
22 Yeah whether or not you whether or not you think it 's been induced by the fact that , that they 've heard what happened in and they think that they can start doing that as opposed to ch as opposed to just saying we 're going to exist by creating
23 Industries want to be left alone so that they can continue to export more than the Japanese .
24 It would appear that they can have had little in common with their trading companions , except in the sale of medicines .
25 The district council actually commented to me that they 'd like to see that entrance opened where that er derelict building is at the top end of Church Street car park , which would be an ideal entrance .
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