Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 2 | Normally he hated making speeches , and liked to prepare one week in advance so that nothing could go wrong . |
| 3 | With Tom Russell at the wheel she instinctively knew that nothing could go wrong . |
| 4 | And then , just when the Direktor was congratulating himself that nothing could go wrong , Gesner refused to take it any more . |
| 5 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 6 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 7 | " Will you love me for ever and ever , So that nothing will sever this love ? " |
| 8 | At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily . |
| 9 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 10 | " To be honest , even when we had a girls ' training week at Inverclyde it was almost on the schedule that everyone would get legless on one of the evenings . " |
| 11 | There 's a lesson here for the BBC or for any television organisation — and it 's important that everyone should get that lesson right . |
| 12 | The Detailed Spectrum Investigation process is intended to ensure that everyone should derive maximum benefit from the limited radio spectrum resource . |
| 13 | While we all think that everyone should have unlimited access to public areas , we have to live in the real world and accept that all sports and hobbies are controlled in some way or other . |
| 14 | Comfortable seating should be used , set out in a circle so that everyone can see each other . |
| 15 | Although there are girls who talk glibly of how they intend to reach the top of the women 's professional game by the age of 25 , and from there move on to marriage and a family , the Solheim Cup served as a salutary reminder that no-one should expect quick results . |
| 16 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 17 | ‘ Only that I ought to ask some of my old friends , people like Madeleine Corley , if I could be allowed to join them , but … |
| 18 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 20 | ‘ I should imagine that you are worried — worried that I might cause some sort of scene , humiliate you in front of this jetsam . ’ |
| 21 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 22 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 23 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I said in court that I might see 200 such challenges if I attended four games in a week — and I stand by that . |
| 25 | That I might report all this to him ? ’ |
| 26 | Was it right for me to assume that I would remain senior partner until retirement ? |
| 27 | Erm however , if it could be made clear perhaps with an extra paragraph in the explanatory memorandum that I would welcome that . |
| 28 | It is only in such circumstances that I would feel assured that the matter had received consideration at the highest level and that there was no risk that the criminal law would be impeded . |
| 29 | He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life . |
| 30 | I told her parents that I would make sure she was all right . ’ |