Example sentences of "[noun sg] that he [modal v] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
| 2 | If the hon. Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) had any confidence that he would be in government , he would know that the Bill would provide him with the power to decide when to establish the council . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're so efficient , ’ she replied , wishing for a moment that he could be on her side . |
| 4 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 5 | At the back of her mind was the thought that he might be with someone else . |
| 6 | She glared at him , hating the treacherous little ache in her heart at the thought that he might be in league with Harry Martin . |
| 7 | ‘ To have intercourse with a woman who is not your wife is , even today , not generally considered to be a course of conduct which the law ought positively to encourage and it can be argued with force that it is only fair to the woman and not in the least unfair to the man that he should be under a duty to take reasonable care to ascertain that she is consenting to the intercourse and be at the risk of a prosecution if he fails to take such care . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He noted with satisfaction that he would be in mid-Atlantic on his sixtieth birthday:an apt metaphor , perhaps , for his own condition . |
| 10 | Having decided with your client that he should be at a particular exhibition or trade show , you will embark on a number of activities . |
| 11 | Although they never said it , he knew their bitterness stemmed from the fact that he would be in charge of the operation . |
| 12 | Though he declined to say who he thought would win tomorrow , one gets the impression that he will be in Scotland 's corner , remembering that if they do win they will head for Twickenham and possible Triple Crown glory . |