Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 2 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 3 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 4 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 5 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 6 | If we think about Freud and his influence it is not hard to find out what he wrote and said , and it is easy to guess that it must have been important . |
| 7 | The first duty of the conqueror , he wrote , ‘ is to maintain his domination and to assure that it will last ; everything is good which has the effect of consolidating and guaranteeing it , everything is bad that may weaken or compromise it ’ . |
| 8 | Elrond 's adamant refusal to take the Ring is because he has considered its advantages but is wise enough to see that it would ruin him utterly . |
| 9 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 10 | It was reported in yesterday 's press , however , that North Korea has now agreed to the principle of the nuclear-free Korean peninsula , although it has yet to confirm that it will open up its nuclear installations at Yongbyon and any underground sites to inspection . |
| 11 | McLeish decided it would be a waste of time to suggest that it would have hardly been reasonable for Angela Morgan to expect to inherit a quick fortune from a man of sixty-two . |
| 12 | There is no evidence to suggest that it would have developed more closely along Western lines . |
| 13 | Doetsch found that his synthetic analogue prevented the normal development of the viral infection within the cells , prompting him to suggest that it might have therapeutic potential ( Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences , 1981 , vol 78 , p 6699 ) . |
| 14 | And there is little to suggest that it will improve when China takes over . |
| 15 | If the adventure had to end , no one among the HFS Loans League side dared to imagine that it might end in less than a month 's time in front of a few thousand at Spotland . |
| 16 | It was easy to imagine that it might have been Camelot , like in the picture story-books I 'd read . |
| 17 | She 'd been polite , and he 'd been too quick to imagine that it might signify something more . |
| 18 | Among such factions as may exist in a constituency party one is likely to be dominant , and to imagine that it would consent to the nomination of candidates not numbered among its adherents is scarcely realistic . |
| 19 | It is an even wilder dream to imagine that it would get such a majority that it could escape from being held to ransom by the 25 Members who signed the amendment . |
| 20 | The lesson of history is quite simple : animal experimentation has played a crucial role in many major medical advances and it is reasonable to expect that it will continue to do so . |
| 21 | A legitimate expectation may arise when a government agency , by its words or conduct , leads a citizen reasonably to expect that it will act in a particular way . |
| 22 | Troops committed by Pakistan and Bangladesh left for the Gulf in early September , while on Sept. 18 Argentina became the first Latin American country to announce that it would send forces ; two frigates , a Hercules aeroplane and 450 soldiers left on Sept. 25 , despite opposition claims that this action violated the Constitution and was inconsistent with Argentina 's diplomatic tradition of neutrality in overseas conflicts . |
| 23 | Sun under Solaris 2. x is among the target platforms , which include OS/2 and AIX , and Sun is expected to announce that it will price list the stuff . |
| 24 | It is hard to find much at Comdex and the companion Windows World show that is not NT-related this year , and Tivoli Systems Inc winged in from Austin , Texas to announce that it will develop a version of its product for NT , and brought along enough gear to demonstrate the Tivoli Management Environment for Windows NT in an early form : it says the product will make it easy for systems administrators to manage , configure , change , monitor , and enforce security of NT systems across large networks , and enable systems managers to manage Windows NT and Unix systems , as well as Windows and MS-DOS client machines , from a single , integrated systems-manager 's desktop ; it will start trickling out at the end of the year with a developer 's toolkit , and management applications will follow in early 1994 . |
| 25 | I do not believe that point has been reached ; but it would be disingenuous for me to deny that it could exist . |
| 26 | Meanwhile negotiations between the US government and the Philippines over the future of Clark air base and of Subic Bay naval base remained effectively deadlocked , with the Philippines government continuing to insist that it would take over the bases when the current agreement expired in 1991 . |
| 27 | The remedy could be screening , but in the first instance it is reasonable to hope that it will average out . |
| 28 | By March 19th the ruling Kuomintang had twisted enough old arms in the assembly to ensure that it would drop its plans . |
| 29 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 30 | 8 Make a final check on the photograph before it is taken to ensure that it will do its job . |