Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his fiancee may think that all time not allocated to necessities such as work should be spent together . |
| 2 | You may think that all this is not required , but you are wrong : good feedback prevents error . |
| 3 | You may think that all 300dpi page printers would produce the same quality of image but this turns out not to be the case . |
| 4 | The Minister may think that that is a strong expression , but I use it carefully . |
| 5 | Some hon. Members may think that that is unfair , but I believe that car owners whose vehicles have been taken would think differently . |
| 6 | You may think that this risk is remote for major sovereign borrowers , but it has happened in the past . |
| 7 | Now you may think that this is an article promoting poor workmanship , it is not . |
| 8 | On the first appearance of a wage claim , [ the government ] whispers to the nationalised undertaking to stand firm — even though the undertaking may think that some concession may be reasonable . |
| 9 | Some may think that these are just nice debating points , and that they bear little relationship to what actually happens . |
| 10 | You may think that thick and thin Ethernet differ in size , but the main difference between them is the ranges they can cover : a thick Ethernet cable can be 500m long , whereas its skinny relative can only manage 150m . |
| 11 | And , beyond that , we ought to see that some of the latest European music is only ‘ fascistic ’ in ways that are almost the opposite of male triumpalism . |
| 12 | In sexual abuse cases where leave is sought for the child to be interviewed by an expert the court may stipulate that all interviews be recorded on video tape as advocated by Douglas Brown J in Rochdale Borough Council v B W , A K and others ( 1991 ) cited above , a wardship case involving allegations of ritual abuse . |
| 13 | Where an assessment involves interviewing the child about matters which are central to the case the court may stipulate that all interviews be recorded on video tape . |
| 14 | Once again we may stress that any attempt to describe syntax by assessing the logical possibilities of combination of the " type " meanings which words and other lexical items may have in the dictionary will simply launch us into the wrong enterprise . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that those who live in rural areas ought to know that that is what the Liberal Democrats have in mind ? |
| 16 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 17 | And although they 're facing out of the wind now , you ought to know that this is n't the usual wind we get here . |
| 18 | In which case we may predict that this craft activity was on a small scale producing no concentrated evidence . |
| 19 | They may consider that many forms of non-consensual sexual intercourse are not so grave as to be labelled rape . |
| 20 | Somewhere inside you may know that Super Ex is a stick you have created to beat yourself for imagined inadequacies . |
| 21 | My right hon. Friend may know that one of my constituents , Bruce Harris , is in charge of the mission called Casa Alianza . |
| 22 | The idea is that we may know that some pleasures or pains have a generally high or low degree of purity or fecundity without its being practicable on a particular occasion to specify and evaluate specifically the precise further pleasures or pains which are likely to ensue from them . |
| 23 | Those of you who have read my papers in Nature may know that these are now known as Briant Bodies , and fall into four distinct groups , which I have labeled Alpha , Beta , Gamma and Delta . |
| 24 | I imagine the wages for housework people must think that any work by women in the unions is a waste of time . |
| 25 | This is something which the government has learned how to do , so I must think that this is highly motivated politically on their part , given the way in which the difference between public information and conservative party political propaganda is becoming a blur to . |
| 26 | But plans , such as Australia 's aim of 20 per cent cuts in carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2005 , mean that everyone should make that 20 per cent cut in the emissions they generate , directly and indirectly . |
| 27 | However , we should emphasize that this stalemate is highly unlikely . |
| 28 | We should emphasize that visionary leadership is not always synonymous with good leadership . |
| 29 | A sequence of six lines with the same rhyme are given to Dame Sirith as , initially , she professes her conventional goodness and innocence to Wilekin : ( " I am a holy woman ; I know nothing of witchcraft but with almsgiving to good men I sustain my life each day , and offer my paternoster and my creed that God should help those in their need who help me my life to lead and should grant that all should go well with them … ) |
| 30 | Despite the two serious drawbacks to this strand of Kane 's theory , the non-existence of a pure gene pool and the uselessness of purely physical attributes without intellectual characteristics , I must stress that many modern black sportsmen hold theories which seem to harken back to their slave heritage . |