Example sentences of "that they [modal v] have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was becoming increasingly clear to the Prussians that they would have great difficulty in making their eastern possessions a financial success : the only way to make the eastern marches profitable was to exploit the poor natural resources to the limit and develop industrial capacity . |
| 2 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 3 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 4 | The origin of these substances did not suggest that they would have magical or mystical properties , and so began to dispel ideas that psychotropic drugs had any metaphysical significance . |
| 5 | There is no economic reason why they should be divested unless it can be shown that they would have synergistic benefits from being combined with SBUs of a different type from those possessed by the group that currently owns them . |
| 6 | He told them that they would have three options . |
| 7 | Looking through the booklet the head had given them , I guessed that they would have some difficulty making sense of it . |
| 8 | The Admiralty were also well aware that the Air Council would oppose a naval bid for Polaris , and that they would have most of Whitehall on their side . |
| 9 | four strategic plan making authorities in Lothian would be ineffective , inefficient and more expensive — and there is a danger that they would have different priorities and perspectives ; be parochial ; together , not meet the land needs of a growing region ; spread specialist staff thinly — perhaps there is post 1986 Met District evidence to support this ; |
| 10 | I was intrigued to find that they might have two or even three broods in a summer , and that the elder chicks sometimes stayed around in the nest after the younger ones had hatched . |
| 11 | Nor did the fact that the defendants had a direct financial interest in securing a sale of Vertigo constitute a breach of fiduciary duty since the contract of agency envisaged that they might have such a conflict of interest . |
| 12 | Now and again , he could be militant : when Lady Astor gave a speech in which she suggested that ex-servicemen should wear arm bands to warn people that they might have venereal disease , my father shouted her down and called her an ex-chorus girl . |
| 13 | In whichever way the results of an assessment are communicated , it is reasonable to assume that they may have important implications for the way in which the child is dealt with in the future . |
| 14 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | The experiential approach therefore tries to get pupils in communication with the depths in themselves so that they may have some idea of what that is like for other people , as well as helping them to be more truly " present " in what they are studying . |
| 16 | The explicit extension of the abstract convention then includes the proposition that both sides must be heard , but it does not include either the proposition that they must have equal time or the contrary proposition that the party with the more difficult case must have more time . |
| 17 | At the time it had seemed that they shared so much that they must have some mystic chain binding them together . |
| 18 | He says that they must have more staff and investment in the system . |
| 19 | The offspring have to be able to reproduce in their turn and this means that they must have sufficient food and space in which to breed . |
| 20 | The most that can be said is that they must have selectional restrictions which are satisfied by the selectee . |
| 21 | But he also reminded scientists that they could have greater influence by lobbying their local MPs . |
| 22 | Rover bought Brayman 's shares so that they could have total control . |
| 23 | And the longer they dealt with it , the more aggravated our members could become on a shop floor , or that they could have additional disputes you know , on their hands , because of the fact that the dispute or the , the problem had lasted so long . |
| 24 | Nick Stone felt exhilarated with running , and though he was hungry , and vaguely thinking of beans on toast , he encouraged Lou to slow down , so that they could have more playing time together . |
| 25 | Although he mistrusted the policeman , he realized that they could have both died if the Citation had crashed . |
| 26 | While the media perceived test-tube fusion to be a solution to the world 's energy problems , it was the possibility of these cells being an intense source of neutrons , and probably of tritium too , that meant that they could have significant military application . |
| 27 | Because I do n't think wages for housework is the same thing as saying that when women have to give up their jobs when their kids are little , or if there are n't no nurseries , that they should have bigger family allowances , that is n't the same as saying wages for housework , is it ? |
| 28 | Accordingly , the subjects should get more ‘ choosy ’ with higher values of a or lower values of k , in the sense that they should have higher reservation values . |
| 29 | I am concerned that they should have all the help that they can get . |
| 30 | Pupils are reminded that they should have all books , calculators , kit etc named and that they should not leave their bags near the Vennel Gate . |