Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet nobody could suggest that Bacon 's works are ‘ popular ’ .
2 While nobody would suggest that Uruguay , for example , might represent easy opposition for Robson 's players the likely alternatives in the second phase are alarming .
3 Nobody would argue that Britons in the decade 1982-1992 enjoyed living standards that 1930s world champions , Benny Lynch and Jackie Brown , would have regarded as being beyond the average working man 's reach , yet this period of comparative prosperity produced 11 British world champions : the greatest number per decade in British boxing history .
4 Nobody will deny that point-to-pointing is a dangerous sport , but everything possible should be done to minimise the risks , and to cut the numbers of those competing in any one race would surely be a major step in reducing the chances of a serious accident .
5 Nobody will believe that governments are likely to intervene when exchange rates move toward the edge of their bands .
6 But nobody can argue that boxers should not be given the fullest possible information on the long-term risks they run .
7 Nobody can say that depressions were something peculiar to the 1930s .
8 ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of .
9 To take two able junior ministers at random , no-one could claim that Peter Lilley , the son of a personnel officer , or John Redwood , whose father was an accounts clerk , belonged in the patrician old Tory party .
10 Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared .
11 Sometimes , it is true , they must have been little more than what Marc Bloch described as ‘ l'endroit où on passe ’ ; but one may presume that efforts were made to drain long-distance roads and keep them clear of obstruction ; and kings and princes in several countries regarded the main roads as their roads .
12 Such a one may feel that Pound 's ‘ writing off ’ of England , his abandonment of her — physically in 1920 , in imagination some years earlier — was abundantly justified , to the extent indeed that it was not so much his justified rejection of her , as her unjustifiable rejection of him .
13 One may think that Tolkien was rightly pushing towards a clarification of his ‘ mythology ’ .
14 Extending the parallel with heroin one may say that addicts can be cured by the use of external force , and often they have to be , though their co-operation certainly helps .
15 One may imagine that bishops would rush to ordain him to make the point .
16 Here one may note that while , eventually , it was France who not only defined Vietnam but also the character of Vietnamese resistance , it can also be argued that in the impact of the first two revolutionary events of the 2Oth century experienced in Vietnam , the inspiration came from Asia itself .
17 As an index of the difficulty , one may note that linguists frequently oscillate between assigning notions like presupposition , illocutionary force , truth condition to sentences or utterances , although important theoretical consequences follow from the choice .
18 Based on Kodak 's experience , one should expect that 40% to 60% of ideas should be lost during the first two stages , with the idea originators having screened themselves out of the process as a consequence of the feedback they received through the review process .
19 More important one should realize that attempts at accommodation between the two new Republics , French and Vietnamese , were taking place not between two sovereign states but between two political forces in the same country , each in the throes of revolution , each unwilling to concede sovereignty to the other .
20 One should add that Buckley takes the Christian myth for granted , as backdrop to the discourse .
21 From the very start , one must realise that WordStar for Windows 1.5 is meant to be more than just a word-processor , but is perhaps more aptly billed as a document processor .
22 However , one must realise that religion , law , rule and learning were fused together in the consciousness of the eighth and ninth centuries .
23 One must assume that Chloe intends to launch a new fragrance based on the stench of rotting vegetables .
24 One must hope that Maxwell will be well enough to assume the role next week , but meanwhile the company is to be congratulated on replacing him with so sterling a performance by this seasoned professional .
25 ‘ Their wealth has secured them a place in New York society — and one must admit that Mr Barnet is a very presentable man , though somewhat offhand .
26 To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done .
27 One must fear that Marianella was in their hands for 10 or 12 hours …
28 To put these actions into perspective , however , one must remember that enclosures were by no means complete .
29 Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end .
30 One must remember that Galileo was part of the Renaissance , the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century .
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