Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may seek to argue that a lesser crime is committed , because they would like the law to be sufficiently flexible to allow the ‘ mercy-killer ’ to avoid facing a charge of murder . |
| 2 | First we must begin to recognise that a very real division is incorporated into the existing structure of housing between the public and private sectors , where the public sector is increasingly just a residual back-up for single-parent families , minority and ethnic groups . |
| 3 | Moderator I should like to move that a full stop be placed after the word commentary and that the remainder of the words in the deliverance be deleted . |
| 4 | ‘ I should have realised that a lovely man like you would never have … ’ |
| 5 | Newton , and others , should have realized that a static universe would soon start to contract under the influence of gravity . |
| 6 | But , in any case , I should have realized that a review of high seriousness like The Criterion , the circulation of which never reached 1,000 copies and I suspect hardly more than 500 , was supported by an intellectual minority whose allegiance did not wane on account of the neglect of a man of whom many may not have heard . |
| 7 | He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd . |
| 8 | You — both of you — must have know that a twin sister could be the saving of her life ! |
| 9 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Titford must have thought that a London in which mobs could go on a looting spree in the City was no place to raise her young daughter . |
| 11 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
| 12 | Put another way , after human slaves have been liberated , then one might attempt to argue that a fair way to decide between competing social policies is to count everyone 's interests and count equal interests equally . |
| 13 | Although one might wish to believe that a profound understanding by teachers of their actions would be the sine qua non of educational action ( Kelly 1982 , Easen 1985 ) , the presence of various forms of teacher-proof materials in use suggests otherwise . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe after I get an album of my own material out — which does sound a lot like Jimi , because I ca n't help it — then I 'll try to take that a step further … maybe where he was going himself , possibly . ’ |
| 15 | Well , a law student might have spotted that a man can not be convicted without the dead body being around . |
| 16 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |
| 17 | I think you could 've , you could 've apacked that a bit , a bit more , to put in the er words of the day , to find out you know what was worrying him and , and what his problems were on that . |
| 18 | I mentioned culture briefly earlier on er I 'd like to define that a little bit better by saying we want a user sitting down in any part of the world to be able to use the product which we develop and feel that it is an accounting application developed for their world and their market place . |
| 19 | Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around . |
| 20 | Lord Denning may have reasoned that a person who is obstructed is likely to use force on the obstructor and harm him . |
| 21 | And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education . |
| 22 | He may have considered that a minority of States should not be able to counteract a general peace settlement , in the nature of a dispositive treaty . |
| 23 | Equally , the landlord may wish to ensure that a yard adjoining a building does not become obstructed by trade empties or unrestricted car parking . |
| 24 | Well actually I feel a lot happier if you say that , because can I actually one of the first questions you asked , which I never got a chance to answer , though Terry did , was which what sort of criteria one would use to say that a Prime Minister 's good and erm I was sort of thinking of that as Terry was answering and I think the thing I came up with is you want somebody who represents , or is sensitive to at least , a very wide swathe of views across the population , but also someone who 's intelligent and caring enough to take into account the minority views , and you want somebody who 's aim is to make most of the people happy most of the time , sort of thing , erm but who 's also prepared to take unpopular steps erm if he believes it 's necessary . |
| 25 | I would like to suggest that a rigid model of permanent placement and of methods of achieving it is no longer appropriate , given the much wider range of needs of children . |
| 26 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |
| 27 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
| 28 | I would have thought that a standard missile would have ensured that a plane it brought down would not have struck the sea with its fuselage relatively intact but in a thousand pieces . |
| 29 | What imaginative job search agency would have foreseen that a champion sheepshearer could become a master garment cutter ( and , later , much more besides ) but Bernard and Laura did . |
| 30 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |