Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 2 | " Will you love me for ever and ever , So that nothing will sever this love ? " |
| 3 | At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily . |
| 4 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 5 | There 's a lesson here for the BBC or for any television organisation — and it 's important that everyone should get that lesson right . |
| 6 | The Detailed Spectrum Investigation process is intended to ensure that everyone should derive maximum benefit from the limited radio spectrum resource . |
| 7 | While we all think that everyone should have unlimited access to public areas , we have to live in the real world and accept that all sports and hobbies are controlled in some way or other . |
| 8 | Comfortable seating should be used , set out in a circle so that everyone can see each other . |
| 9 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
| 10 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 11 | ‘ I should imagine that you are worried — worried that I might cause some sort of scene , humiliate you in front of this jetsam . ’ |
| 12 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 13 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 14 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 15 | He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life . |
| 16 | There is only one thing to say about the Home Secretary 's speech : I have heard more intellectual contributions from Lord Waddington on the subject , and I never believed that I would make that statement about anyone holding the office of Home Secretary . |
| 17 | Eventually she believed my protests that I would prefer Filipino fare ; it appeared — embotedo , lumpia , bulabula — all in a toasted sandwich . |
| 18 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 19 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 20 | What on earth made me imagine for even one second that I would have enough strength to confront Luke ? |
| 21 | I knew before I went that I would cry that day , but I thought it would be because he was standing in front of me , not because he was n't standing in front of me . |
| 22 | I think that I would like those considerations borne in mind by Mr when he 's doing his report , and I 'd like us to have a very open view about what we do with the County Farms . |
| 23 | You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I 've got . |
| 24 | You 'd think with my connections at the National Gallery , Washington , and the Virginia Museum and Yale that I would know more people in the field , but I just do n't . |
| 25 | But having read them , it is first of all possible that I may have some queries on them . |
| 26 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 27 | If he stims me much more , I know that I may seek such stimming again , however unwillingly . |
| 28 | What I said to the other group , partly because they had a , an hour before the lecture is that I 'll use next week with them , as , as an introduction to the poetry of this period . |
| 29 | One option might be that I 'll produce some slides . |
| 30 | ‘ In my lifetime , it 's unlikely that I 'll see that sort of system — the one which currently is being dismantled — back in place and in good health . |