Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 2 | The tenant should endeavour to ensure that all reasonable and normal risks are covered by the landlord 's insurance . |
| 3 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 4 | If the landlord will not accept the amendment , then the tenant 's adviser should seek to ensure that any dispute about the rent is determined by arbitration rather than by an expert . |
| 5 | Since statements are seen in part as a form of protection for the child , we must seek to ensure that all who need this protection have it . |
| 6 | I should like to urge that those persons particularly charged with drafting speeches and statements on United States policy have this problem brought to their attention , so that in any listing of Asiatic countries in whose freedom the United States maintains a continuing interest , Korea may always be included . |
| 7 | I should like to think that such rights will be dealt with speedily . |
| 8 | Parents bored with the endless repetition of nursery rhymes should pause to consider that this monotonous activity may be giving their children a head start in their education . |
| 9 | One is that we should try to ensure that all parts of a measure are debated . |
| 10 | You must try to remember that some people are normal . |
| 11 | We must try to ensure that present and future generations of Stirling students are able favourably and frequently to reminisce about their days [ and nights ! ] on campus , for many years to come … much to the annoyance of their own children . |
| 12 | Whether we ignore the inner planets , or assume they add a tiny contribution to the overall effect , the key dates that come out of the analysis are the same — and I should have made that clear in the article . |
| 13 | I should have imagined that this lay more in your field than mine . |
| 14 | On page 27 of the last issue of Credit Management , the footnote should have said that individual voluntary arrangements account for 13 per cent ( not 1 per cent as was printed ) of personal failures . |
| 15 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 16 | reporting accountants should have to confirm that all firms have undertaken an ‘ expense of time ’ calculation and budget for the following year ; |
| 17 | Leith afterwards supposed she should have realised that that state of affairs could not go on indefinitely without someone getting hurt . |
| 18 | We should have realised that this was a sign of things to come . ’ |
| 19 | In accordance with section 67 the item was properly included in the bill but the bill should have stated that this item had not yet been paid . |
| 20 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 21 | The Government should have learnt that better than anyone . |
| 22 | " Perhaps I should have let that precious mother of yours catch you sneaking back into the house . " |
| 23 | Fool , he should have known that that was his one chance to strike , and make known his mettle , and assert his right once for all . |
| 24 | She should have known that that stupid receptionist would inform Fernando , to save his own skin , no doubt . |
| 25 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 26 | Mr Justice Brooke ruled that Northumberland health authority should have specified that three staff were necessary . |
| 27 | I do not expect shame from Ministers , but I should have thought that all the Ministers present , and all the others who might come in later , would be a little wary about pressing this matter . |
| 28 | 1 should have thought that that was the punishment , not the education , though God knows there are plenty around who think of education that way . |
| 29 | I should have thought that that lesson was clear . |
| 30 | I should have thought that good sense would dictate that someone who opposes every measure begins to lose credibility . |