Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | said that they would want the basic rate increased by more than 2p , 40 per cent . |
| 2 | This is recognised in the Law Commission Working Paper No 85 ( 1983 ) in relation to self-assembly furniture where it was said : The goods would , of course , have to be in a condition in which they could be assembled , and if they were sold without adequate instructions it is unlikely that they would meet the required standard of quality . |
| 3 | With England discredited , the Protestants were in a much weaker position ; from Mary of Guise 's point of view , there was now no particular reason to suppose that they would upset the old order . |
| 4 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 5 | When the British came we thought that they would lift the Moslem yoke from off our backs . |
| 6 | All too often they are accused of exploiting cats to satisfy the competitive urges of the exhibitors , and it might be imagined that they would favour the de-clawing operation to facilitate the handling of cats when they are being judged at shows . |
| 7 | Immediately after the sinking of HMS Sheffield , the Royal Navy changed its policy and reprogrammed all Abbey Hill computers in the task force so that they would recognise the lethal Exocet missile as foe rather than friend . |
| 8 | Gemmill and Dickens argue that such tests examine both the validity of the model and the efficiency of the TOM and that they would have the following implications : |
| 9 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 10 | He had mentioned that they would have the full story on Saturday and that had changed Patrick 's mind for him . |
| 11 | They thus combined , in a frustrating way , a lack of precision and argument with an expectation that they would become the mandatory cornerstones of classroom practice . |
| 12 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 13 | On Feb. 24 Klaus 's supporters , announcing that they would use the working name Civic Democratic Party , confirmed that they would follow the draft statute approved on Jan. 12-13 . |
| 14 | Pray that they would know the gentle touch of our Lord in their lives in the coming days . |
| 15 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 16 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 17 | The best time to see the Lakes he felt was not necessarily high summer , and he recommended people to come at all times of the year so that they might appreciate the great torrents of water after rain and misty light on cloudy days . |
| 18 | This in turn reduced the maintenance costs of removing and replacing 200 flying hour cassettes from their positions , which by this time were required to be near the tail of the aircraft in order that they might have the maximum chance of surviving impact forces in a crash . |
| 19 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 20 | And it says , now when the apostles , who were in Jerusalem heard that Somaria had received the word of God they sent them Peter and John , who came down and prayed for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 21 | So when they hear this , the apostles back in Jerusalem , they send Peter and John down to Somaria for this special purpose that they might pray for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | Notice also that Peter and John did not pray that God would give them the Holy Spirit they prayed that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | In verse fifteen , when they came down they prayed for them , that they might receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 24 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 25 | But there may be reasons to think that they may reject the null hypothesis of speculative efficiency even when the latter is in fact true . |
| 26 | Any information available soon after a crash is avariciously pounced upon by both journalists and lawyers , and exploited to the full in order that they may derive the maximum benefit for their own particular ends . |
| 27 | It is abruptly open to question , this idea the doctors hold in secret , that they must wield the special power ; because if the power remains unused , then it will become unmoored , and turn back against their own lives . |
| 28 | As Cobbett had noted in 1822 : ‘ Society is in a queer state when the rich think , that they must educate the poor in order to insure their own safety . ’ |
| 29 | This , in short , means that they must enter the political arena . |
| 30 | It is for this reason that sociologists have often assumed that they must respect the professional psychologists ' judgement in these matters , and so have treated Freud from their viewpoint as unscientific and unusable . |