Example sentences of "and [that] [pron] [modal v] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Among the generally positive replies was a negative one , stating that these lists always contained and perpetuated errors and that we would be better off accumulating a vast , unwieldy library of pertinent papers .
2 There is no question , of course , that we make use of relational or " polyadic " predicates of the most diverse types , and that we would be hard put to it to express what we wish to express without them .
3 So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful .
4 Are we a children of God and that we will be as not yet been made known but we but we know that when he appears we shall be like him .
5 The recognition that children have their own ideas about phenomena , and that they may be very different from their teacher 's ideas , has important implications for teaching and learning .
6 It is a complex if naive set of attitudes , including the beliefs that human beings have free will , that they must be strictly disciplined by restrictive rules , and that they should be harshly punished if they break the rules or fail to respect authority .
7 They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it .
8 If you see him , can you let him know that it 's 091 224 1671 , and that I should be in tomorrow evening until around 7:30
9 They responded by giving the general area a few desultory squirts with their foam , but informed me the place was a total loss , and that I should be fully content with having got out of it alive .
10 It was equally clear , however , that an amendment to abolish capital punishment would be moved in the course of the proceedings of [ sic ] the Bill in the House of Commons and that it would be strongly pressed by a substantial number of Government supporters .
11 He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night .
12 I just thought that the war would be fought far away , like the one in Abyssinia , and that it would be over in a few days , or weeks at the most .
13 It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence .
14 At present , many residential homes for adults run by local authorities have over 25 residents , whereas it is felt that no residential homes should have more than twenty-five places and that it would be much better if the average size was much lower .
15 But he 's not prepared to … take advantage of me because he knows that I 'm inexperienced and that it would be too important to me .
16 He maintained that treatment should be carried out in the gentlest possible way available and that it should be both speedy and lasting .
17 It is I would suggest similarly evident that P P G seven expects most new development in rural areas to be directed to rural villages and small country towns and that it should be sensitively related to existing settlement patterns under the historic wildlife and landscape resources of the area .
18 For the strictly limited purpose of deciding whether Ward J. 's decision should be affirmed or reversed , it suffices to say that an appellate court should always be slow to reject a trial judge 's findings of fact , he having had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses , and that it should be even slower to do so if any findings which it would be minded to substitute would lead to the same result .
19 IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum .
20 Over recent decades , there has been growing recognition that communication based on people 's background , culture and basic knowledge is a critical component of any development project , and that it must be systematically planned , budgeted for and evaluated .
21 I am sure that we can build on that and that it will be ever more successful .
22 Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ?
23 In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right .
24 He informed them that Stella had not only had her appendix , but also her gall bladder removed , and that he would be home in time to attend to the next horse trek arranged for Saturday .
25 He said good-night to Evelyn quickly and that he 'd be back after breakfast in the morning .
26 They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner .
27 The problem was that Kier had friends in the town council and , as Campbell pointed out , ‘ my eneemys here have wrote to My Lord Grange ; if the man is sett at liberty I begg it may be by y[ou]r interest , and that you 'll be so good as write me so , for it will do me service in this place ’ .
28 ‘ I think when you first go into the Home , you 're frightened because you think you 'll be treated possibly as a cabbage or just somebody who ca n't do anything for themselves and that you may be completely dependent on people and you want to be independent .
29 If you let your debtors get away with not paying or late paying you are only hurting your own image by letting it be known that your credit control is open to abuse and that you can be financially pushed around .
30 Accordingly , I am invoicing you for £75 ( and Vassar separately for £75 ) on the understanding that the tapes will be used only for this joint research and that you will be separately and jointly bound by the conditions of the contract , a copy of which is attached .
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