Example sentences of "[pron] that [adj] [noun] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have in my memory a feeling that we had satisfied ourselves that international law would be obeyed . ’ |
| 2 | It was quite clear to me that 260,000 people would be reduced very substantially and that for every person who was made redundant in British Steel , seven people were affected — another three in the family , plus the people serving that family in the shops and in other ways . |
| 3 | What about if I suggested to you that some people would think that being anti-vivisection was in bad taste , how would you answer the point ? |
| 4 | I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment ! |
| 5 | It is something that many people would not like to see , but there is no question that a high proportion of animals which are shot will carry lead shot for a while , will die after a long period — in many cases days or weeks — and there is a substantial amount of suffering when this happens . |
| 6 | Do n't feel insecure about it — your intuitive rapport with the wild world is something that many people would give their eye- teeth just to touch . |
| 7 | There are two main reasons ; firstly , most native speakers of English find an ‘ all-strong-form ’ pronunciation unnatural and foreign-sounding , something that most learners would wish to avoid . |
| 8 | Typically , his history takes the form of establishing a concept of something that chronological history would assume had no history , for example , madness , or sexuality . |
| 9 | Not one that bleeding hearts would approve of , no doubt , but we , as the committee , were absolutely within our rights to sell off what we considered to be unnecessary stocks of wine in order to allocate the money to members ’ more urgent needs . ’ |
| 10 | Yet the fact that many primitive peoples regulate interpersonal relations with a fair degree of predictability and humanity , without the help of a centralized political system , is one that most anthropologists would now endorse ; however , unlike Engels , they do this without pointing out the political implications of such an observation . |
| 11 | If he has evidence that any official in the Welsh Office in any way said to anybody that this grant would be made , he had better provide it . |
| 12 | Commentators claimed that Mubarak was enraged and embarrassed by Iraq 's invasion , after he had announced in late July [ see p. 37632 above ] that Saddam had assured him that Iraqi forces would not move into Kuwait . |
| 13 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 14 | Harry could see the realization dawning on her that small talk would be wasted on this guest . |
| 15 | She was going to say ‘ industry ’ , but it occurred to her that this admission would come oddly from an expert on the Industrial Novel . |
| 16 | This might seem like a horrifying amount to spend in eight months ( and it would have been a lot more were Caterham 's labour rate not a reasonable £20 an hour ) , but you have to remind yourself that five services would last the average Caterham owner until 1996 . |
| 17 | At the same time , it often seems well nigh impossible — especially for the tyro or greenhorn — to visit a museum and learn anything that serious educators would agree to describe as significant or ‘ worthwhile ’ . |
| 18 | They told us that many customers would be ready to pay £30 more for a washing machine , say , to get it from someone who would have the payments collected weekly from their homes , simply because that fitted into the pattern of their normal use of credit . |
| 19 | It seems to us that this approach would not work where the ideas are essentially novel or controversial . |