Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He may have some dreadful secret in his past that he wants to confess to you — something that may shake you to the core . ’ |
| 2 | We may be meant to think that time is simultaneous , in a way that may owe something to the simultaneity propounded , ‘ perhaps ’ , in Eliot 's Four Quartets , where ‘ History is now and England ’ ; or that it is cyclical , a turning wheel , with human depravity paling into insignificance as the wheel turns into modern times . |
| 3 | In examining these conflicts and changes the particular aims of the researchers are to : elucidate the changes that occurred in the UK defence science and technology system in the 1980 's and to analyse their dynamics and interactions ; ii identify and examine the assumptions about the future being made by firms and governments to guide their current decision-making in this area ; iii consider whether clear and stable structural trends are emerging , and the factors that may influence them in the 1990's , including the transition to a single European market ; iv establish a better framework for assessing contemporary developments in defence technology policy and their consequences for other areas of science and technology policy . |
| 4 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 5 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 7 | Many people start their marriages wondering how many affairs their partner has already had , and wondering if they can compete with the possibilities that might threaten them in the future . |
| 8 | She was becoming less interested in any tittle-tattle he might purvey that might help her with the case than in himself . |
| 9 | I 'd be lucky ter get anybody that could match 'er in the kitchen . |
| 10 | Anything , anything would make death tolerable , she thought , anything that could admit something of the grand somewhere , and not this small cramped sitting room , this domestic duplicity , this pouring of cups of tea , these harshly unaltered faces . |
| 11 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 12 | ‘ Secret people , ’ she said , ‘ who do not seem to have any business that could take them into the forest . ’ |
| 13 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 14 | she could n't understand how , she said oh she said and , and a couple of channels that used to drive her up the wall . |
| 15 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 16 | By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 . |
| 17 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 18 | What norms did people learn that would blind them to the obvious ? |
| 19 | In the next chapter I will try to increase the order in our neck of the woods a little further by explaining how people are trying to fit together the partial theories I have described to form a complete unified theory that would cover everything in the universe . |
| 20 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 21 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 22 | So in small Japanese firms average tenure may be higher but only one in six men have the 20 years or more of tenure that would place them on the higher parts of their wage profile . |
| 23 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |
| 24 | Their common concern was the chaos that would unleash itself on the city if a radioactive cloud from Hinkley Point was carried by the prevailing wind . |
| 25 | The national brewers , whose attitude to staff and tenants would bring a blush to the face of the average Victorian mill owner , object to new legislation that would deprive them of the right to evict tenants and their families at a moment 's notice . |
| 26 | And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ? |
| 27 | None of the 70,000 English , Scots , Irish , and Anzac troops expected the reception that awaited them , and the rain of death that would greet them from the machine-guns of the Turkish 9th Division , hidden in the hills above . |
| 28 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 29 | Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night . |
| 30 | Elsewhere there are some uneven and four-square passages which prevent one 's subscribing to a view of this work that would equate it with the successors Benoliel names . |