Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely , this section does not mention modification of childbearing patterns among the measures that may serve this goal , while expressly stating that : " Sustained reductions in fertility have generally been preceded by reductions in mortality . |
| 2 | Very recent taxonomic observations , though , have identified a population of pigs in northern Kenya and Somalia that may match this description . |
| 3 | A stratagem that may solve this problem is to give short-acting insulin alone before the evening meal and intermediate-acting insulin at bedtime ( Tattersall & Gale , 1981 ; Francis et al , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | That ought to make this situation easier to bear . |
| 5 | Brothers and sisters , I say to you that the message that must leave this Conference is one that says to all trade unionists , we will fight any oppressive legislation used against us . |
| 6 | In a critical discussion of Carol Gilligan 's work in moral development ( Gilligan , 1982 ) , she notes that Gilligan 's methodological principles , in particular the aim of listening responsively with receptiveness and humility , supply an example of the kind of approach that might fulfil this aim . |
| 7 | We therefore sought clinical and pathological features that might test this concept and help us identify risk factors for the development of RP . |
| 8 | As a result of my inexperience , am I missing the simplest attention to detail that could prevent this imbalance ? |
| 9 | While monkeys are not normal elephant food , it is conceivable that such an event could occur ( or at least , it is hard , at the current state of the art , to envisage a reasoner that could reject this possibility without rejecting other , similar ones incorrectly ) . |
| 10 | And so I was the one that used to take this lunch to father . |
| 11 | Any floats that would exceed this length are then indicated on the screen so that you can adjust them if you wish . |
| 12 | As one of my hon. Friends pointed out today , it is typical that , when finally pushed into a corner and forced to be specific , the Leader of the Opposition picked for unqualified Labour party support the one area of European Community policy that would cost this country . |
| 13 | She stopped abruptly , and Belinda thought it was because she had been about to say something outspoken that would betray this afternoon 's confidences — ‘ A wife like Belinda , ’ or ‘ Someone to share your house and your life , ’ but when Faye did speak again her tone was not the breezy cover-up that Belinda had expected . |
| 14 | A system was needed that would trigger this breakout and yet allow the consumer to open the can , pour the beer and see the familiar surge in the glass . |
| 15 | the company believes that it is in a position to provide a product or service that would satisfy this demand profitably . |
| 16 | In 1982 the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales asked for a new Religious Education programme that would reflect this thinking . |
| 17 | I thought of it as a sanctuary , and something more as if there were some magic property in the room itself that would stop this happening , if only I could reach it . |
| 18 | Certainly if we 'd see something that would do this afternoon , or New Drove today , that 's fine . |
| 19 | Tonight he 'd take their condescension without argument , he thought , more confident by the day that something was coming that would rock this Tower to its foundations . |
| 20 | In order to realize the potential of the large amount of software of this nature , we need a system of ‘ minimum documentation ’ that would allow this material to reach a wider audience . |
| 21 | The policies that he stands for — of high taxation and centralised control — are the policies that would drive this country to ruin . |
| 22 | Remembering that impulses arriving at a synapse can be either stimulatory or inhibitory , it is easy to imagine wiring diagrams that would have this effect . |
| 23 | It is the left that has espoused the causes of sexual and racial equality with enough vigour to persuade the establishment that action needed to be taken ( a host of anti-discrimination measures and laws ) , but without the power to make the sort of widespread social change that would render this sort of fussy , bureaucratic measurement unnecessary . |
| 24 | He remembered that he was being extremely clever and extraordinarily subtle about all of this , and that it would be subtlety that would win this war . |
| 25 | In the case of information relating to er say client A which is obtained by the auditor while auditing client B , the auditor ought as a matter of sound practice normally to use the information to make further enquiries for the purpose of the audit of A. These interpretations have been set out more fully in the statement of auditing standards and the professional guidance issued by the auditing practices board that will accompany this legislation and as matters of courtesy to the house er Madam Deputy Speaker , I ask that a copy of that be placed in the library . |
| 26 | If , in the above specification , we replace ‘ doing X ’ by ‘ being different from typical members of the group ’ , we have a mechanism that will explain this behaviour . |
| 27 | Richard Randall , defending , said : ‘ It was just one moment that will effect this man and his family for the rest of his life . ’ |
| 28 | It only remains to devise a film that will encode this experience in false colour . |
| 29 | By studying regions of the proteins the proteinase cuts , they have come up with a small molecule that can block this scissor action . |
| 30 | Conversation dries up , strain and tension increases and relatives will say that they know that the only thing that can break this living and extended nightmare is the death of the person whose bed they are sitting round , but ‘ What a dreadful thought to have . ’ |