Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb mod] be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no idea that I would be in this area . |
| 2 | erm I 'm sure that I could be of some help to them |
| 3 | But I 'm sure there will be a simple explanation — ’ Concern clouded his eyes ‘ — Mr D'Arcy , do you seriously think that I could be in any danger from these people ? ’ |
| 4 | I almost believe that I could be like this . |
| 5 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 6 | I do n't think even Rainbow is so obtuse that she can be in any doubt as to her visitor 's ultimate intentions . |
| 7 | Now , however , she felt that she could be of some help . |
| 8 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 9 | Please pray that you 'll be with each one of us and that we 'll enjoy today with grandma and all the different things we 'll do . |
| 10 | The ‘ hidden message ’ is that you could be like that too , if you ate X 's yogurt . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope , sir , ’ he said , not noticing the pun , ‘ that we may be of some assistance to you in your stay in the region . |
| 12 | I do not think that we should be against such moral principles . |
| 13 | But unless we have another child we have been told that we will be in this place until she is 13 . |
| 14 | David Morgan , presenting the donation for the bank , said : ‘ I 'm delighted that we can be of any assistance . ’ |
| 15 | Even if we are assured that the creatures in question are not in any pain , some people will prolong the argument either by insisting that they must be in some sort of distress , or by claiming that even if they are not overtly suffering , what is happening to them is cruel and unwarranted exploitation . |
| 16 | Not that it would be at all necessary , she reassured herself as she felt a sudden burst of fright . |
| 17 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 18 | I hope you will agree with me , therefore , that it would be in all our best interests to let the police into our confidence on this one . |
| 19 | It is an additional requirement of the religion , that it shall be in some logical form which can be accepted by all kinds of people , from the academically minded who need to be satisfied with its innate sound reasoning , to those who are prepared to let faith take over where the tedium of logical study is not wanted or not within their individual capacities to undertake . |
| 20 | Yes and one can imagine that it might be like that , but of course the women that we meet at university are those who have become scientists very often . |
| 21 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 22 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 23 | His acceptance of the condition was made with an easy mind — he did n't feel that distributing a newspaper , even a banned one , would be considered a particularly heinous offence for a young girl , and anyway he could not imagine that he would be in any danger himself if he admitted knowledge of the basket 's contents . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for South Ribble ( Mr. Atkins ) says that he will be among those abolished , but he has already abolished himself — there has never been such a secret and silent Minister for Sport . |