Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might prefer to accept that rather than face the horror of the idea of her husband , the King of Scotland , being thrown into a pit among commoners . ’ |
| 2 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 3 | Would he want to know that everywhere one turned in this Golden Age of the future , there was war and violence and man 's dreadful inhumanity ? |
| 4 | The tenant will , however , need to ensure that too wide a use will not have adverse consequences on rent review . |
| 5 | If the clause is the main unit of encoding then we would expect to find that almost all clauses in the speech corpus Beattie analysed should contain pauses , particularly in initial position . |
| 6 | I do not yet know in what form this particular section will be published , whether as a foreword or as an interpolation into the body of my work , but I can begin to see that even here I can make something triumphant out of necessity . |
| 7 | In the opposing camp you will find the dyed-in-the-wool sceptics who can not even begin to conceive that perhaps there is something in it . |
| 8 | You would marvel to know that even in that locality Sectarianism has raised its voice . |
| 9 | You might like to know that apart from COED CYMRU , the summer edition will feature articles on the WTB 's Tourism 2000 review , the Shell Better Britain Campaign , development pressures on the countryside , environmental education , opencast coal , an up-date on Carmel Woods , fresh thinking on forestry , and the effects of transport on the environment . |
| 10 | EDMA will campaign to ensure that only the highest standards are applied in deciding the criteria for the planned EC eco-label on detergents . |
| 11 | well I think erm , the short answer is that I ca n't erm , erm provide the parties with any time on Friday , er , the case , this case has already some what over run it 's estimate , which has put pressure on the commercial judge as it is , there 's gon na be even more pressure on Friday , erm , I 'm afraid to say the , that the complexities of this case as such that I can not erm begin to think that even if we started at ten we would erm , necessarily finish within the hour , I have difficulties starting at ten o'clock anyway , I think we 'll simply have to erm , put the matter off , off until Monday morning I , Mr ca n't attend I really do n't think that I can erm put it off er any longer than that |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting that sometimes she 's a little hard to understand . |
| 13 | ‘ I would like to think that eventually there will be a game there each Sunday morning , ’ he told the Herald this week . |
| 14 | Well , I 'd just like to think that maybe we have thought about it , you know . |
| 15 | But yes I 'm sure you can be a missionary in Harlow and I 'd like to think that maybe I could erm increase that work and maybe have an afternoon a week where I could talk to people about God , but I think there 's not really time in a ten minute surgery slot . |
| 16 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 17 | Would the Minister like to clarify that now , or would he prefer to wait for his PPS ? |
| 18 | ‘ Would you like to say that again , perhaps a little more loudly this time ? ’ he said witheringly . |
| 19 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 20 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 21 | You do n't want to leave that behind , do you ? ’ |
| 22 | I do n't really want to leave that like |
| 23 | But I may want to recognize that just as well as that . |
| 24 | You must 've found that very tiring , did you ? |
| 25 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 26 | Oh you may not have , you may have gathered that like anyway . |
| 27 | ‘ I might have guessed that too many cooks … ‘ |
| 28 | Lili must also have realised that here was thin ice : thin ice over deep waters . |
| 29 | Readers of Dornford Yates will not have forgotten that somewhere outside Pau was The House that Berry Built . |
| 30 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |