Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But proving the necessity of crime requires more than showing that some things that were formerly criminal are now important parts of healthy social life ( even if we were to accept that we can objectively determine what constitutes healthy social life ) . |
| 2 | The clear implication was that , eventually , their full demands would be met and in the meantime the Unionists had been obliged to accept that they could no longer rule with total disregard for the feelings and aspirations of Derry 's Catholics . |
| 3 | Life is killing us moment by moment , and until you are humble enough to accept that you will never be truly aware . |
| 4 | It is frustrating to know that they can still , if they wish , punch the button marked ‘ Excess ’ . |
| 5 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 6 | My dearest Victor , I am so happy to know that you will soon be home . |
| 7 | We want you to know that you will always get a fair deal when you book with us . |
| 8 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 9 | Nigel had got her measure enough by now to know that he would never be allowed to insist on anything , so he approached the subject carefully . |
| 10 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 11 | , I just want you to know that I shall never change , but I also want you to allow me to come home now and again for a few days . |
| 12 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 13 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 14 | And what most of the analysis misses is that reports such as this will accelerate the process , persuading those that do n't want to downsize that they will soon have little alternative as vendors put mainframe lines onto care and maintenance . |
| 15 | How silly I was to trust that you would always love me ! |
| 16 | We were both shocked to discover that he could neither ride nor walk , and was lying on the grass , waiting for us . |
| 17 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 18 | It pleases me because I was afraid music was being pushed out by computers — and I was chuffed to find that I could still ‘ work ’ the pedals after more than 50 years ! |
| 19 | The present unsatisfactory state of the law relating to VAT could mean that VAT paid by the tenant may not be recoverable , and therefore the tenant should consider amending such a provision to provide that it will only pay VAT on such sums where it is first presented with a valid VAT invoice in the tenant 's name . |
| 20 | Also , his experience of the frequently inept English resistance doubtless caused him to guess that it would eventually weaken to the point where he would be accepted as king . |
| 21 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 22 | Frankly , it is not an adequate response for Labour Members to pretend that they can somehow keep the market for coal at its present level . |
| 23 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 24 | Yet it did not require much imagination to see that it could only be one thing : the so-called " rice-water " fluid from a cholera patient , which Dr McNab claimed was so deadly . |
| 25 | Not that he had minded in the least , for if he had a daughter as rich as Gemma and a fellow like Tristan Gage were to come along he 'd take all the necessary steps himself to see that she could never be cheated . |
| 26 | In this way we may be able to see that he would both agree and disagree with the Archbishop 's statement . |
| 27 | He urged her to acknowledge that she could quickly end the dispute by allowing it go to arbitration . |
| 28 | In Paris , Sally would insist , she 'd starve , and Walt used to claim that he 'd never be able to write anything good enough for acceptance by a commercial publisher . |
| 29 | A phone call will always be made to confirm that you would still be willing to come to any particular meeting . |
| 30 | I began to realize that I would probably — hopefully even — end up in my dotage , still playing Joyce from a wheelchair in a Home for Distressed Thespians . |