Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Even the chairman of the National Westminster bank has conceded that they should look at that issue .
32 Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely .
33 The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time .
34 The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 .
35 Mr. Wakeham : I agree with my Hon. Friend that most of his suggestions will form part of the solution though I think that the House would be reluctant to depart from the view that it should rise at 2.30 on Fridays .
36 We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular .
37 Its adaptability means that it can survive at high altitudes , in semi-arid areas , and in rocky areas as well as in forests .
38 This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time .
39 We 've both become victims of Private Eye and I know that he would laugh at some of the things they 've said about me , and I 'd do the same to him .
40 " Mr. James Christie intimated to the Meeting that he would move at next meeting that the Members get up a Flower and Vegetable Show sometime during this season . "
41 He asked Molla Gurani about the protocol of the seating arrangements , whereupon Molla Gurani replied : " The most fitting thing for Gurani is that he should serve at this feast and not sit . "
42 He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run .
43 She refused to believe that anyone could start at that age ; she 'd been sixteen when hers had started .
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