Example sentences of "[that] [det] [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrialists do not want to return to Labour party policies because they know full well that that would mean Front-Bench Labour Members taking decisions instead of them . |
| 2 | Smallholder agriculture has led to the concentration of people being three times that that would support shifting cultivation in some areas . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that that would provide low-cost homes , a welcome boost to the housing market and reduce housing benefits ? |
| 4 | now that that 'll become clear but just just |
| 5 | Employers have a statutory duty to provide a safe workplace and it 's only a matter of a judge 's interpretation to decide that that should include mental as well as physical health . |
| 6 | Both breweries are now up-to-date and efficient plants , and it can be assumed that neither will require extensive re-investment for some years yet . |
| 7 | It is an important part of the market as at present constituted that market makers be able to deal freely with each other so that each can eliminate undesired surpluses or shortages of stock arising from past or prospective business with clients . |
| 8 | Under the Treaty of Rome , it takes only a majority of EC members to launch a constitutional conference that obliges heads of government to talk about central powers that some would call non-negotiable . |
| 9 | Ignore , for the moment , the fact that many modern word-processors can check your spelling , punctuation and grammar , and that some can suggest alternate words or phrases when your ideas dry up . |
| 10 | Environmentalists fear that this might mean softening water standards — which have proved something of a bane to the UK . |
| 11 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |
| 12 | However , they conceded that this might prove expensive and not particularly effective in the battle against dishonesty . |
| 13 | Todor ( 1980 ) predicted that this would hold true for other tasks mediated by the language hemisphere and he therefore required his subjects to carry out a sequential motor task . |
| 14 | Deng Xiaoping hoped that this would satisfy conservative critics wary of reform and keep in check any unhealthy tendencies among the younger generation . |
| 15 | The State Agricultural Society of New York hired an entomologist , Asa Fitch , in 1854 to study the life history of insects in the hope that this would suggest new methods of control . |
| 16 | Priority was to be given to walking , not only because it was felt that this would give disproportionate environmental benefits and would aid access to public transport , but it would recognise the dominance of local movement by foot transport . |
| 17 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 18 | Labour Minister Carlos Torres y Torres acknowledged that this would leave minimum wages well below the necessary minimum for subsistence , estimated at 87,000,000 intis ( approximately US$270 ) , but stated that any further increase would raise inflation and bankrupt small businesses . |
| 19 | One obvious way out was to charge richer patients a fee , but the hospital governors feared that this would deter charitable donations . |
| 20 | And even if a protectionist Power were to exclude British goods from some newly developing market , it was ‘ mercantilist superstition ’ to believe that this would do permanent damage : |
| 21 | European overlordship , however , was to prove incompatible with the notions of Arab nationalism that had been growing since the end of the nineteenth century ; and it was no surprise that this would become apparent first in the most advanced country in the region , Egypt . |
| 22 | It has rejected the use of punitive taxes to discourage proliferation of company cars , on the grounds that this would increase private ownership of older and less efficient vehicles . |
| 23 | The specifics are n't clear , but the contextual indications are that this would include American art from say , Pollock to André , not to mention a range of contemporary work on commodification stemming from Warhol . |
| 24 | I heard recently of a case where a director nearing retirement was advised to restrict his salary and pay higher dividends , purely on the grounds that this would save national insurance contributions . |
| 25 | During those meetings it was emphasised by all participants that a great deal of work would need to be done in the translation of medical textbooks , and that this would take considerable time . |
| 26 | It was hoped that this would reduce independent expenditure and thus overall spending . |
| 27 | The company recognised that this would put extra pressures on staff . |
| 28 | The largest faction in the civil war , the Somali National Alliance ( SNA ) of Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid which claimed control of two-thirds of Mogadishu and of most of southern Somalia , continued to object to a larger UN presence , arguing that this would undermine Somali sovereignty . |
| 29 | FOE claim that this would allow politically-controversial options to be buried . |
| 30 | NOTE Some people deliberately restrict their intake of fluid , thinking that this may prevent urinary incontinence . |