Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proposed that we should test things by the evidence of our senses . |
| 2 | He said that he and two other members of staff tried to restrain Mr Dodd who shouted that he would kill Mr Maguire . |
| 3 | Alf Morris , the Labour Party 's spokesman for the disabled , promised that it would increase pensions above the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | Karrimor 's project development engineer demonstrated that he could do shoulder high kicks just as easily wearing with its 20kg load as without . |
| 5 | James maintained that he could issue dispensations from the provisions of this Act by the royal prerogative , an opinion which was upheld by the judges in the test case of Godden v. Hales in June 1686 , although it required a purge of the judicial bench to achieve a verdict favourable to the Crown . |
| 6 | The star , who is 55 today , joked that he would treat wife Jenni to the slap-up meal . |
| 7 | I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I could n't day in any other way — things that I had no words for . |
| 8 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 9 | Just under two-thirds , 63% , agreed that they would use training to prepare themselves either to tackle a new enterprise or to intensify an existing one . |
| 10 | Stephen agreed that they must tell Mrs Blakey . |
| 11 | London agreed that he should offer AFPFL improved terms of entry into the Council . |
| 12 | Before he left for Nassau the Cabinet agreed that he should reject offers made by McNamara for Britain to continue the Skybolt development on a fifty-fifty cost-sharing basis with no guarantee that the US would buy the weapon in the end ; or to buy the lower-performance US Hound Dog missile for her V Force . |
| 13 | Rather more docile than when she had entered , Frau Nordern agreed that she would give notice , ample notice , more than enough notice to make sure that they had the room and raised her glass in salute as the manager beamed on Erika and then withdrew to welcome the first of his evening guests , stout , prosperous looking men in heavy dark suits : officials , with their wives . |
| 14 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
| 15 | An EC Commission report delivered to EC governments on Oct. 9 recommended that they should take measures to restrict illegal immigration and to harmonize procedures on asylum and that the situation of legal immigrants and genuine refugees within the EC should be improved . |
| 16 | He had remained well until June 1992 , when he developed generalised lymphadenopathy and his doctors recommended that he should start zidovudine . |
| 17 | When George Wigg asked my view about this , I recommended that he should urge Harold Wilson to oppose any such investigation and I drafted a letter which Wigg suggested Wilson should write to the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Although one can understand the Opposition having difficulty with their own Back Benchers , I never expected that they would have difficulty with members of their own Front Bench . |
| 19 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 20 | Moreover , on July 28 Turkey announced that it would refuse permission for the use of Turkish bases to launch allied attacks against Iraq . |
| 21 | On Feb. 11 and 25 , Kuwait announced that it would allocate £660,000,000 ( $1,320 million ) towards UK war costs and F5,000 million ( $1,000 million ) towards French costs . |
| 22 | One high street retailer , Comet , announced that it would offer refunds to people who bought its own-brand and other manufacturers ' models which failed the Government tests announced on Monday . |
| 23 | On Jan. 26 Saudi Arabia announced that it would commit $13,500 million to US costs for the first three months of the war . |
| 24 | In a letter received by the Agence France-Presse news agency in Bonn on April 13 the extremist Red Army Faction ( RAF ) announced that it would cease attacks on leading economic and government figures in return for the release of some of the longest-serving RAF prisoners . |
| 25 | Argentina announced that it would resume relations with Pretoria before the end of the year . |
| 26 | On Sept. 14 Japan announced that it would provide $2,000 million to the frontline states , $600 million of which would be sent immediately . |
| 27 | At the same time the company announced that it would spend £225,000 on installing a special air filter in the factory . |
| 28 | The next day , Pakistan announced that it would reciprocate India 's gesture . |
| 29 | In March 1977 the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) announced that it would target asbestos as one of the 15 substances to receive priority attention under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 . |
| 30 | In 1988 the Japanese giant bought CBS records for $2bn and last week it announced that it would take control of Columbia pictures . |