Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] they [modal v] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 2 | Never once had it crossed Jasper 's or Bert 's mind that they might be refused . |
| 3 | During April he was obliged to withdraw two bills ( one of which changed voting rules in regional elections ) and to postpone another for fear that they would be defeated . |
| 4 | Behind Lord Denning 's concern to protect these institutions ' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves , and that their integrity would be compromised . |
| 5 | The IWC has said that there is no scope for slaughtering minke whales for fear that they might be driven into extinction . |
| 6 | Wilson had no time to miss him and his family or her other gentleman , who had joined their party , before the Brownings were back , similarly propelled by the fear that they might be trapped because of war . |
| 7 | There was a nationalist fear that they might be confined to an internal Northern Ireland settlement , but this has been denied . |
| 8 | Or , as is much more likely to be the truth of the matter , evidence of the parents ' fear that they might be depriving the child of some advantage if the ritual is omitted . |
| 9 | It is nevertheless through their ideal functioning that they must be understood . |
| 10 | The new standards demand that by 1998 at least two per cent ( 40,000 ) of all new cars must emit no smog-producing gases at all , which means in effect that they must be powered by electricity . |
| 11 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 12 | The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line . |
| 13 | Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ . |
| 14 | They have the advantage that they can be calculated for most countries in the world . |
| 15 | Matrices have the advantage that they can be added together and multiplied by scalar quantities ; further the concepts of determinant and trace are available to aid computation . |
| 16 | We will discuss here two different methods which have the advantage that they can be combined into a more comprehensive system . |
| 17 | Environmental manipulations have the considerable advantage that they can be used in wild populations , and they are also relatively quick . |
| 18 | Solid state transducers have the important advantage that they can be used in the ambulatory patient and are becoming readily available . |
| 19 | It is to no-one 's advantage that they should be homogenised . |
| 20 | Franco and his henchmen had undoubtedly allowed the monarchists to stand in the hope that they would be discredited by defeat . |
| 21 | And Queen 's hope that they will be joined by other top quality players who are currently studying at the university but play with other club sides . |
| 22 | If the Indian population of the Siberian crane does become extinct , then captive-bred Siberian birds will be released into the Common crane 's breeding grounds , in the hope that they will be guided back to India when the Common cranes migrate . |
| 23 | In Maggie 's heart there had always been a prayer that they might be reconciled . |
| 24 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 25 | Earlier in his essay on the rule of law Oakeshott had suggested that to deliberate the jus of lex is ‘ to invoke a particular kind of moral consideration : … the negative and limited consideration that the prescriptions of law should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility capable of distinguishing between the conditions of ‘ virtue ’ , the conditions of moral association ( ’ good conduct ’ ) , and those which are of such a kind that they should be imposed by law ( ’ justice ’ ) ' . |
| 26 | They still have discretion to determine whether it is long-term or short-term profitability that they should be striving to achieve and discretion as to how to go about realizing that goal . |
| 27 | Both need our help , but the help that they should be given is by their own Government , by the full implementation of resolutions 706 and 712 . |
| 28 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |
| 29 | The overall economic objective of a production department in the chemical industry is to produce chemicals of sufficient quality and in sufficient quantity that they can be sold at a profit . |
| 30 | They will always be eligible bank bills and not true trade bills and their nomenclature in this context can only be described as a kind of shorthand and corresponds to the requirement that they must be drawn for transaction not capital purposes . |