Example sentences of "[vb past] that it [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also maintained that it would be impossible to hold fair trials so long after the alleged crimes had been committed . |
| 2 | He was sitting in a chair — we were all having our picture taken — and I mentioned that it would be good if he could stand with us , so we could all be together . |
| 3 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
| 4 | He also realized that it would be chaste , that he would never physically consummate this love and that was fine . |
| 5 | A slow smile spread across his face as he realized that it must be Ace with the Marines . |
| 6 | His father suggested going to the Home Office , but then agreed that it would be futile as it was probably implicated . |
| 7 | When he insisted he needed a holiday , I agreed that it would be lovely to lie in the sun and swim in the warm Mediterranean , but I could not agree that it was an urgent need . |
| 8 | My Lord the the final matter is , my learned friends and I agreed that it would be proper for there to be a further interim payment er in the sum of twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 9 | As it happened Acheson was in Paris when the cable arrived ; the Embassy replied with the unanimous opinion that it would be a serious mistake to deliver the memorandum ; and Acheson , having seen the correspondence , agreed that it would be inappropriate at the time . |
| 10 | More significantly in 1993 the Committee recommended that it would be sensible for all drinks in the UK to be taxed equally , according to their alcohol content . |
| 11 | When the British government sold its last stake in BP in 1987 , the oil firm realised that it might be vulnerable to a bid , so it began to strip itself . |
| 12 | When , towards the end of 1985 , we merged with our sister bank to form Britain 's first nationwide 850-strong branch network , we realised that it would be important to develop name awareness throughout England and Wales . |
| 13 | Sean decided to take the money because he realised that it would be difficult to live with no money . |
| 14 | At the first meeting of the committee which I attended the secretary announced that it would be necessary for members to disclose their interests , meaning thereby that they should declare with what companies and organisations they were involved . |
| 15 | The Law Commission admitted that it would be difficult to cope with this , and the UCTA does not do so . |
| 16 | However , some argued that it would be difficult to include the voluntary and direct grant colleges in such a body and that national planning would thereby be more complex . |
| 17 | Some people argued that it should be possible to run down the existing hospitals almost entirely , replacing them by short-stay psychiatric units at general hospitals and long-term care within the community . |
| 18 | Presumably you also believed that it might be possible to negotiate some form of multilateral disarmament in the region ? |
| 19 | For a long time , I believed that it would be possible to overthrow the Irish regime by English working class ascendancy … |
| 20 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 21 | In order to make it suitable , Minto believed that it would be necessary to build on at least two extra rooms . |
| 22 | On the other hand , many commentators believed that it would be disastrous for the Republicans to nominate Reagan encumbered as he supposedly was by three disadvantages : his lack of experience of national office , his age and , most importantly , his identification with the extreme right of his party . |
| 23 | It would have been wrong to propose abolition , and in any case no member of the Commission in fact believed that it should be illegal for a parent to spend money on a child 's education . |
| 24 | Mrs Shephard said the unemployment figures were ‘ a glimmer of hope ’ but added that it would be foolish to build too much into one month 's statistics . |
| 25 | He added that it would be wrong in principle to reopen cases where settlement had already been made . |
| 26 | I am convinced that if the hon. Gentleman were ever in a position of responsibility in the House — the likelihood of which is becoming increasingly remote — he would also find himself advised that it would be foolish to put before the House proposals which in a few weeks or months might fall outside the law . |
| 27 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 28 | In the House of Commons , Clement Attlee reiterated that it would be impossible for Britain ‘ to accept the principle that the most vital economic forces of this country should be handed over to an authority that is utterly undemocratic and is responsible to nobody ’ . |
| 29 | She had started to look for another job , as it seemed that it would be possible to sell the shop within the next few weeks . |
| 30 | It seemed that it might be possible to relate the variation in the polymorphism to slug density in the Henfaes field . |