Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [modal v] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The poor schoolmaster must live his life in a glass cage and do nothing that would scandalise the parish ! ’ frank grumbled . |
| 2 | There was nothing in natural knowledge that , in Pemble 's words , could ‘ set straight the wryed and distorted image of God in us ’ ; nothing that might assist the soul in achieving its sanctification . |
| 3 | For Adrian Hop there 's nothing that can ease the pain of the loss of his daughter but perhaps he says she wo n't have died in vain . |
| 4 | If we quarrel if we have a good punch up and all that between us and them that would suit the other side right down to the ground . |
| 5 | Relaxation was impossible to him : not just because he was a superb ‘ detail ’ man looking into absolutely everything that could affect the outcome of a race , but because he was by nature a thoroughly driven and often neurotic man . |
| 6 | Erm the unstable bladder was present more often amongst our obstructed group although erm this was not something that would distinguish the obstructed patients from the non-obstructed . |
| 7 | Before , the highest pinnacle of achievement would have been to make something that would change the world . ’ |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 9 | It had to be something that would give the prospective punter some idea of the staggering depth and scope and thoroughness of Henry 's work . |
| 10 | Alternatively , Ho may simply have been waiting for something to turn up , something that would tip the scales one way or the other in the situation that was neither peace nor war . |
| 11 | This would be a Council of Ministers with majority voting being permissible on a ‘ limited field of discussion ’ , but this would still be something that would lack the reality of supranationalism . |
| 12 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 13 | So if we can do something that may trick the would-be burglar into thinking there 's someone in , then he may well go somewhere else . |
| 14 | He paused , searching his mind for something else to say , something that might move the emphasis away from himself . |
| 15 | Neither of them could afford to get mixed up in something that might involve the police . |
| 16 | Something that will make the walls dissolve . |
| 17 | The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system . |
| 18 | It features main bearing caps that do n't have to be individually matched to the block — something that could make the production process of any engine much easier . |
| 19 | There 's something missing , something that could change the whole slant of our investigation . |
| 20 | We have something that could enrich the quality of your life for many years to come … |
| 21 | His meaning was clear , and she knew the choice before her was a momentous one , one that might change the whole course of her life . |
| 22 | well , and he 's the one that 'll make the decision I think cos he 's got hold of the money . |
| 23 | They rang on Saturday morning to say the repair to the tractor 'll be three thousand and that 's the only one that 'll take the big plough . |
| 24 | The SSC is designed to probe those high energies , and thus to make possible the creation of a grander theory , one that would contain the standard model but also surpass it . |
| 25 | In their advertising these firms represented their service as one that would relieve the anxiety of owing so much to others — borrowing from a single Peter to pay pressing Pauls ? |
| 26 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 27 | Within no time at all , the directly elected mayor of some industrial town or city in the north would spot that if he came along with imaginative ideas for raising standards and delivering services , he would get support , he would be the one that would claim the credit and the central government would be proud to let him have it . |
| 28 | Ay and by heaven , one that will do the deed |
| 29 | The registered motion path type is potentially one of the most interesting , and also the one that will cause the most problems . |
| 30 | Honeywell says that the agreement is a long term one , and that it also plans to use Apple 's next generation Macintosh — the one that will use the PowerPC RISC processor , in future generations of the Electronic Library System . |