Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [modal v] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an upwave was due , it was inevitable that thee would be bad debts , and Money Advice would be needed to help . |
| 2 | I , I mean I , I , I w I could n't say that I would be happy being in the house all the time . |
| 3 | I 'm worried that I could be developing agoraphobia . |
| 4 | How odd that I should be nine cents adrift |
| 5 | She pulls over on to the hard shoulder , gets out , opens the boot , gets out the spare tyre and the jack , jacks up the car , takes off the old wheel , puts on the new one , lets the jack down , puts it and the wheel back in the boot , closes it , gets back in the car and drives on , knowing that she will be fifteen minutes late . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that old Sir David only died last year — just before my own father — and I realise that she must be worried sick about poor Owen . |
| 7 | I sometimes think that you would be happier working somewhere else ! ’ |
| 8 | Ideally , your contract will provide that you will be guaranteed receipt of the same sum net of UK tax if you unexpectedly have to pay that tax . |
| 9 | We pray for the nations of the world ; O God , help us to lessen the tensions between nations , so that our many resources and gifts may be diverted to the alleviation of human suffering and injustice , and that we may be better stewards of Your many gifts to us . |
| 10 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 11 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 12 | In the New Forest their appointment is now regulated by the New Forest Act of 1949 , which provides that there shall be ten verderers in that Forest : the Official Verderer appointed by the Queen , and four others by the Forestry Commissioners , the Minister of Agriculture and others , together with five elected by the Commoners . |
| 13 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 14 | The elections of 1906 and 1910 had shown the danger to the Unionist party from a Liberal-Labour alliance on class lines ; the budget of 1909 had shown how far that alliance might threaten the social base on which Unionism itself rested ; and the encroachments of the syndicalists suggested that there might be dangerous forces yet to be released . |
| 15 | One can also consider the possibility that there might be black holes with masses much less than that of the sun . |
| 16 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 17 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 18 | But if if a lot of schools opted out could you imagine that there might be one school that was famed for its computer excellence , and another school famed for its musical excellence , and you might have different specialist kinds of schools , not quite as dramatically delineated as I have suggested , but that would be the balance of interest in these different schools and would that be healthy ? |
| 19 | Ideally he should have indicated to them that there might be other reasons for failing to reply , other than guilt . |
| 20 | Besides , he was beginning to guess that there might be other games , and if so , he would like to know . |
| 21 | I do not think it wrong for a man to open his eyes , look around him and consider that there might be other roads upon which to travel . ’ |
| 22 | There was always the possibility that there might be other places , beyond the limits of the known , which were inhabited by the unnatural monsters of fable . |
| 23 | It occurred to me that there might be other readers who also ran the program and were confused with the results they obtained . |
| 24 | The facts of political geography are alone sufficient to suggest that there might be many occasions when the Duke of Aquitaine found himself at odds with the Taillefers and the Lusignans . |
| 25 | Never does it occur to him that there might be good reason to dispute his proposals . |
| 26 | He began to tell her about Letty and then about the astonishing story that there might be another member of the family tucked away in Scotland . |
| 27 | Reports from secret intelligence sources had indicated that there might be another strike against Royalbion . |
| 28 | She was in love , she thought he was in love with her and yet she was concerned that there might be another woman hovering in the background . |
| 29 | Three were fear , desire for profit , and the assumption that there might be more quietness and better justice under the English than under Arran 's rule . |
| 30 | Noting that there might be more roles for AI techniques in maintenance management Squadron Leader Tim Grant , successfully applied for a Defence Fellowship to survey potential applications . |