Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being able to tile or overlap windows within applications is a nice convenience but have you ever wished that you could do the same thing with separate applications on the desktop ? |
| 2 | Such ‘ notepad ’ machines are currently being introduced into the market , and it is expected that they will become an effective alternative to keyboards in applications where handwriting will prevail . |
| 3 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 4 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 5 | The King was , in a sense , the guardian of this agreement , and it might have been expected that he would remind the party leaders of it . |
| 6 | She had half expected that he would deflect the question . |
| 7 | After all , it was expected that he would become a priest , like James . |
| 8 | King Hassan went to Washington on a state visit , when it was expected that he would discuss the question of a revised voting list for the Western Sahara . |
| 9 | Since the student is describing a series of very simple events which he has just been watching , it might be expected that he would produce a highly fluent and error-free description with no hesitations . |
| 10 | Nobody has claimed that it can clear the infectious organism , HIV , from a person 's system . |
| 11 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 12 | From the north-east side of the island Captain Ferzenaar also reported that he could see no less than eleven other minor centres of activity , which were either emitting small columns of steam , or occasionally ejecting dust in small explosive bursts . |
| 13 | Of course there is no possible denying our need for people so educated that they may fill the jobs that are at present unfilled , or offered to people from other countries , because of our own shortage of skilled and competent technologists . |
| 14 | They probably have never even considered that they could have an accident and damage the glider . |
| 15 | It would n't be fair to suggest that most users of desktop publishing systems were unhappy with the quality of their page printer 's output — more that they have realised that they can improve the quality still further by going to a bureau . |
| 16 | It was arranged that they would take the horses down to the railway sidings where there was enough light from the warehouses to school in the evenings , and Biddy would come twice during the week and once at the weekend , for two hours each time . |
| 17 | It was arranged that they could hold the ceremony in front of the band stand following which they danced their favourite dance together . |
| 18 | It was arranged that they should get the express train from Hanover in order to open at the Folies-Bergère on the very evening of their arrival . |
| 19 | It had been arranged that she should make a regular weekly visit in order to vaccinate all new puppies , do an inspection of all the animals already there , and be on call for any emergency . |
| 20 | Edouard made enquiries , and finally arranged that she should get the place of her choice , Norland College in England , which had trained generations of nannies . |
| 21 | Luckily he had some friends at the University and it was arranged that he would open a shop there and become ‘ Mathematical Instrument Maker to the University ’ . |
| 22 | It was arranged that he would take a few days ' supply of stoma bags with him and he was given a list of equipment he would require . |
| 23 | It was arranged that he should open the discussion with a statement of this and other views . |
| 24 | Do you actually mean that you want this if that case were proven that you would want the regional shopping centre in the new settlement ? |
| 25 | It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country . |
| 26 | I should , of course , have guessed that it would do the opposite . |
| 27 | IN 1916 when evening classes began in Russian it was intended that they should serve the commercial interests of the people of Nottingham . |
| 28 | It was intended that he should enter the medical profession but for financial reasons this became impossible , and when only seventeen he joined the office of the district superintendent of the line of the London and North Western Railway at Euston . |
| 29 | Old friends would not want to know us , perhaps frightened that we would become a burden upon them . |
| 30 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |