Example sentences of "that he [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That a language , whatever it be , not repress another ; that the subject may know without remorse , without repression , the bliss of having at his disposal two kinds of language ; that he may speak this or that , according to his perversions , not according to the Law . |
| 2 | He added that he may appoint independent assessors to review the viability of the 10 pits that have already been closed . |
| 3 | If people are nearby , draw their attention to what is going on , so that it 's no longer a case of one to one ; or ridicule the offending performer , pointing out that he may catch cold if he does n't take care ( provided that you feel instinctively confident that such a tactic will not enrage him ) . |
| 4 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 5 | If a horse is very spooky and really does not ever settle down , there is a possibility that he may have defective eye-sight . |
| 6 | But it is perhaps primarily in his assertion that ‘ Il n'y a pas de hors texte ’ ( ‘ There is nothing outside the text/nothing except text ’ ) that he may seem most relevant to literary theory , for in this claim one hears echoes of the principles of a number of the major theories of literature that have emerged in this century . |
| 7 | The answer is partly that the vote in Rhineland-Palatinate , which lies just below Bonn , is now out of the way ; partly that he may regain some of his lost esteem in eastern Germany , where voters are heavily for Berlin ; but not least that Mr Kohl has almost always come back fighting after getting a slap in the face . |
| 8 | The pollutions which escape the field officer 's shroud of privacy are those which are so noticeable that they attract widespread public attention , or those where a complainant is of such status that he may enjoy direct contact with senior staff . |
| 9 | In response to Henry Malt 's letter concerning health hazards relating to art , ( AIM/July 92 ) , there is a book called ‘ The Artist 's Complete Health and Safety Guide ’ by Monona Rossol that he may find useful . |
| 10 | Having acquired a wife , Leslie began to think that he ought to take some steps towards securing our future . |
| 11 | Rob Bettinson , the director , has deduced that he ought to have these images plus disc-jockeys , radio commercials , midwestern hops , but he does n't seem to know why . |
| 12 | Thiercelin realized that he ought to feel annoyed , and up to a point he did . |
| 13 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 14 | But my guess is that he 'll sleep most of the morning and probably wake up feeling much better . |
| 15 | But in the meantime , you can let Jones know that he 'll have some waiting of his own to do . |
| 16 | In order that he might redeem those who are under the law , that he might bring us into his family . |
| 17 | The participant makes a choice to enter make-believe play , a game or drama ( all three require an ‘ as if ’ gloss , although in the game form it is rarely explicit — charades might be the exception ) ; he enters the make-believe play , game or drama with the intention of temporarily ‘ bracketing off ’ practical life so that he might experience this specially contrived ‘ present ’ . |
| 18 | A week later , magistrates gave him bail , despite police fears that he might commit further offences . |
| 19 | Tell him Ellen that he might grow accustomed to it . |
| 20 | In a letter posted shortly before departure , Aveling wrote , half ironically , but perhaps also partly believing the possibility existed , that he might make millions of dollars in America . |
| 21 | All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict . |
| 22 | He acknowledged that ‘ having him loose does raise the potential that he might make more mischief , take to the hills and be very hard to find ’ . |
| 23 | The Exercises were ill-received , and Gassendi seems to have decided that he might make more headway against the Aristotelians by systematically presenting an alternative point of view , rather than by direct argument against them . |
| 24 | The notion that he might make any joke , except an obscene one , I dismissed without a second thought . |
| 25 | That little wanton who had so suited and amused him had all the qualities necessary for a love affair , but none of those he calculated as obligatory in the girl that he might marry some distant day . |
| 26 | A cognac paid for here , a box of chocolates for the Party wife there , a hint that he might fix that plot of land for someone … . |
| 27 | He said that he might acquire new obligations . |
| 28 | Cook , Cook , Cook ! we croaked in deprecatory tones as one by one we crept past him cowed and cold , fearing that he might invent some pretext to detain us … we hurried to bring to his notice the only name which seems to have power in Syria , that famous name of the hydra-headed , the indispensable , the world-wide Cook . |
| 29 | Only the knowledge that he might provide some clue in the mystery of Suzie 's whereabouts held her prisoner . |
| 30 | There is a similar air of gloom in a conversation which Ronald Duncan has recorded ; Duncan suggested that he might use some of the prize money to go abroad and escape from the London winter . |