Example sentences of "[that] a [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , and others , recommend that a sample should be obtained after one hour for both routes and are pleased to receive one at all , for it immediately involves the medical microbiologist in the care of the patient , and close cooperation is important . |
| 2 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |
| 3 | What Mr Laycock is suggesting is that a proposal will significantly improve or |
| 4 | This means that a proposal must be circulated among various sections and departments that will be affected by the proposal , with much discussion and correction ensuing . |
| 5 | Survey advice — a surveyor may recommend that a purchase should only go ahead — often on an old property — if certain building work is done . |
| 6 | Remember that a ski ca n't skid in powder because the wall of snow at its sides prevents it . |
| 7 | This was applied in Dixons Ltd. v. Roberts ( 1894 D.C. ) where it was held that section 14 did not catch a trader who gave a false indication that a refund would be given on any goods purchased , if within seven days the customer was able to buy the same products locally more cheaply . |
| 8 | As for those who already receive High and do n't want another copy , or those ex- Mountain subscribers who just do n't want High , then one can only hope that a refund will be available . |
| 9 | This implies that a share should sell for PE o times its earnings per share if it is fairly priced . |
| 10 | He said that his government attached the highest priority to restoring the health of the economy , and promised that a budget would be introduced within a month and that dialogue with the IMF would continue . |
| 11 | The three properties can be explained on the assumption that a synapse will be potentiated if , and only if , it is active at a time when the region of dendrite on which it terminates is sufficiently depolarized . |
| 12 | I knew he was Greek , that he loved me because I was my mother 's child , and that a Greek will put family above every other consideration . |
| 13 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 14 | It is likely that the next session will be decisive and that a curator will then be elected on a temporary basis : the appointment to direct the Visual Arts sector for the 1992 and 1995 Biennales can not be confirmed until the Executive Committee , whose mandate has now expired , has itself been completely renewed . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman has not taken into account the £280 that a couple will have received this year because of the so-called flat-rate £140 poll tax reduction . |
| 16 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 17 | They suggest that a couple should be allowed to get divorced after one year without having to attribute blame for the split . |
| 18 | What it has still largely ignored are the psychological repercussions , both of the realisation that a couple can not conceive — the guilt , the anger , the envy of others — and of the effects of keeping hope alive by a long series of treatments . |
| 19 | The coexistence of these two problems means that a choice must be made between an expansionary or contractionary budget depending on the government 's preference : higher employment or stable prices . |
| 20 | A fair number of countries indicated that a response could be given within three months . |
| 21 | The only difference is that a scheme might , as mentioned above , enable the bidder to save stamp duty . |
| 22 | The fact that a scheme could be contrived that made it a working possibility for the majority of the disabled to acquire a motor car of their choice and to finance the purchase , including insurance and repair , from the allowance , was a staggering revelation to economists and particularly to the socialists of the time who regarded private enterprise as the kiss of death . |
| 23 | There is no requirement to identify the other person but this may be advantageous in certain circumstances , e.g. when suspected that a defence may be used that there was no other person . |
| 24 | I have founded my judgment upon the grounds which I have already expressed , but I do not wish to be understood as thereby negativing the proposition that a defence might be set up on the alternative basis mentioned by Willes J. In my opinion this appeal should be allowed . |
| 25 | The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract . |
| 26 | Above all , it is a fundamental principle of English law that a contract can not be varied unilaterally . |
| 27 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 28 | The owner of the horse , realising his value , and that a king would pay a handsome price for him , offered him for sale to King Philip II of Macedonia for the enormous sum of thirteen golden talents . |
| 29 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 30 | ‘ What wants yon knave that a king should have ? ’ he demanded . |