Example sentences of "[that] they [vb mod] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there were general laws governing the history of life , it was assumed that they would be revealed by the fossil record . |
| 2 | Behind Lord Denning 's concern to protect these institutions ' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves , and that their integrity would be compromised . |
| 3 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 4 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 5 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 6 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 7 | Where floor joists are built into the part wall , they would have to be cut off so that they would be supported by the new well , completely free from the party wall . |
| 8 | Well the proposals that are made in the in the Committees er report for funding erm seem to us acceptable with the exception of the comment we have already made erm i acceptable in the sense that they would be borne by erm all pension funds in proportion to their the size of their assets and in relation to the size of the er compensation has to be paid . |
| 9 | He tried to pull Caspar with him so that they would be hidden by a tree , but Caspar hung back barking . |
| 10 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 11 | He had not expected that they would be worshipped like gods , but on a world where technological ability excited only minimal interest , all of them were at a considerable disadvantage until they were able to prove themselves against local standards of performance . |
| 12 | Papers ( 1834 ) xxvi 9 , that they would in future allow a person refused admission to appeal to the judges and that they would be bound by their decision : see Holdsworth 's History of English Law , vol . |
| 13 | It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving . |
| 14 | It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving . |
| 15 | Little did they know that they would be stepping into Hunter and Rae Brown 's shoes less than a year later ! |
| 16 | Franco and his henchmen had undoubtedly allowed the monarchists to stand in the hope that they would be discredited by defeat . |
| 17 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 18 | Willmott ( 1966 ) chose to use young Australians and New Zealanders in his research into the activities of adolescent boys , on the assumption that they would be seen by the boys as neutral as far as class and social background were concerned . |
| 19 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |
| 20 | The Jordanian Central Bank governor , Mohammad Said Nabulsi , announced on June 13 , 1989 , that they would be placed into liquidation in an attempt to cut heavy currency speculation . |
| 21 | Fitzroy acquiesced and said that they would be placed in a Reading Room on the following day . |
| 22 | I was assured that they would be covered in the clause regarding ‘ personal items and jewellery whilst away from home ’ for which an extra premium would be necessary . |
| 23 | He trusted that they would be enabled to further the progress already made in rebuilding the domestic stability and economic strength of the United Kingdom and in weaving still more closely the threads which bound together the countries of the Commonwealth or , as he still preferred to call it , the Empire . |
| 24 | A meeting of ministers from the 16 German Länder in Dresden on Dec. 14 , 1990 , discussed the possible imposition of a quota for Soviet Jewish immigrants , but on Jan. 9 , 1991 , Wolfgang Schäuble , the German Interior Minster , announced that they would be handled on a " generous case-by-case basis " . |
| 25 | She sought also to argue that he was in error in failing to decide that she had established a grave risk that they would be exposed to physical or psychological harm or otherwise placed in an intolerable situation if their return were to be ordered . |
| 26 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 27 | Basically , it provided that they would be investing in her rather than letting her buy this or that security for them . |
| 28 | The manager 's first job on the band 's behalf was to negotiate a new deal with Red Rhino , so that they would be presented in a more important light . |
| 29 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 30 | Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries . |