Example sentences of "that we [modal v] [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 2 | A joy for all seasons , a haven for blackbird and robin and a screen between ourselves and our neighbours that we might go about our separate business unobserved . |
| 3 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 4 | He even realised that we might slide off him when he accelerated , and provided us with a vine , like a rope , to hang on to . |
| 5 | None of us can conceive that we might die before our parents . |
| 6 | The answer is that we can gamble on their occurrence and their nature by so arranging matters that we might profit from them . |
| 7 | Pray that we 'll listen to you . |
| 8 | It 's a case of balancing the short-term costs to the long-term benefits that we 'll see to our soil in this country . |
| 9 | Be with them in peace so that we may remain with our family and children in peace . |
| 10 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 11 | When Jesus receives news that Lazarus is ill , Thomas urges everyone back to the sick man 's home in Bethany , ‘ that we may die with him ’ . |
| 12 | It may be impossible for the apes to master a code that we would translate into our own terms . |
| 13 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 14 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 15 | We reached an agreement with BOC under which it could provide the welding hardware that we would sell with our robots . |
| 16 | We understand that planning permission from Edinburgh District Council will need to be granted , and that we shall consult with yourselves over some of the details , such as the design of the area adjacent to Boathouse Bridge . |
| 17 | As my hon. Friend said , we have substantially increased the area covered by green belt in this country , and I welcome this chance to make absolutely clear to any planning applicants thinking of trying to develop green belt land that we shall stand by our commitments . |
| 18 | Generally , art criticism connected with mixed and group exhibitions is commentary from outside , so that we shall return to them , with only this brief mention here , in the next chapter . |
| 19 | As its provisions will be beneficial to many people , I hope that we shall deal with it expeditiously . |
| 20 | The nightmares and perception of strange smells that we shall see in our more modern writers were as prevalent in mediaeval times : ‘ He dremyth dredful dremes of derknesse and ferdfull to se , and of stynkynge sauoure and smelle . ’ |
| 21 | I was going to suggest that this is er , I mean I 've made a note of this question , that we ought to return to it next time |
| 22 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |
| 23 | then I think that we ought to comment on it but if we are doing media response |
| 24 | One of the most important messages that we must give to everyone in our country is that we have in place proper , fair and effective policies to deal with the unprecedented flow of asylum seekers . |
| 25 | This does not suggest , I must warn you , that we must dwell on our sinfulness and the holiness of God . |
| 26 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 27 | ‘ This means that we must concentrate on our most worthwhile projects to make sure that the things we do in the future are profitable at $19 a barrel . |
| 28 | We were representatives of so many branches of sciences that we used to speak of ourselves , in a jocular way , as a British Association , in miniature , for the amusements of science . |
| 29 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 30 | When we arrived at Jaipur my father told us that he had sent for us so that we could go with him tiger-shooting . |