Example sentences of "[prep] thing [that] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , that sounds as if it 's the sort of thing that ought to happen . |
| 2 | OK , on paper it all sounds like nausea-inducing stuff , the kind of thing that would cause any self-respecting Popkid to pack up his T-shirts and join the next peace convoy out of town . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing that would influence you , of course , ’ says Caroline , ‘ but the prospects would be quite good . ’ |
| 4 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 5 | It was just the sort of thing that would amuse a man like that . |
| 6 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 7 | So , so being desirous of the truth would be the sort of thing that would |
| 8 | First , context suggests the sort of thing that might be said ( the crash was on a border , so the question of which side of the border something will happen on is appropriate ) . |
| 9 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 10 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 11 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 12 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 13 | As you say it 's the sort of thing that might appeal to people because then they can go and look at their poster . |
| 14 | In part it 's down to S&M mainstream fashion ; in part to the rise of interest in all forms of body art ; in part to the fact that gays are turning to it as a form of safer sex ( hardly the sort of thing that should be criminalised ) . |
| 15 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 16 | Well joking apart that 's the sort of thing that could happen to kids and er you you know you wonder why parents let them out . |
| 17 | Morals began to lose their meaning and people said anything that came into their heads , the sort of thing that used to appear in books as a row of stars or be written down on slips of paper and handed to judges in court . |
| 18 | That 's the kind of thing that will get to you and make a difference in eight months of being in a popular band with a lot of money . |
| 19 | Few primary schools are likely to match the example of Meadowfield Comprehensive School in Sheffield that raised £80,000 by accommodating conferences for the City 's Area Health Authority and its Training and Enterprise Council but it 's an example of the sort of thing that can be done with imagination and energy . |
| 20 | That 's the sort of thing that can really upset people . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't think it 's the sort of thing that can be explained unless you can understand it without explanation . |
| 22 | But that 's the kind of thing that can happen , cos y people are n't aware . |
| 23 | I suppose it depends on the family but trying to envisage an average family , on thing that would immediately come to mind erm is probably security . |