Example sentences of "[vb pp] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mossy , a little like Sean Walsh , would have wished that the kitchen and living quarters of the Hogan household were more separate . |
| 2 | Phillario has already wished that the rain would sweep Mira away , and now Corydon is intent on getting rid of weeds . |
| 3 | Many times Louisa had wished that the woman might weep as her husband had done , might permit something deeper than care for her creature comforts to reach her . |
| 4 | Speaking at a recent Financial Times conference on financial reporting in the UK , Nigel Stapleton of Reed International , chairman of the 100 Group 's technical committee , disclosed that the ASB had received about 100 responses to its draft proposals issued last April . |
| 5 | The business meeting disclosed that the BDDA had survived the first year successfully , but that its formation had not been greeted with enthusiasm by the deaf and dumb of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | The report disclosed that the Ministry of Agriculture monitoring programme for the lake had been seriously inaccurate . |
| 7 | A month ago its chairman Paul Torday , a former Northern CBI chairman , disclosed that the cost of its defence amounted to £653,000 . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) . |
| 9 | The Saturday Evening Post scoop was relayed to British newspapers which quoted from the article and disclosed that the head of MI5 was Sir Martin Furnival-Jones . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , it has been disclosed that the Queen Mother was entertaining guests within a short time of leaving Aberdeen Royal Infirmary . |
| 11 | They said Nicola had been found brutally stabbed to death in her office although neither newspaper disclosed that the murder weapon was a pair of scissors . |
| 12 | ( ’ Subjective' here has nothing to do with ethical subjectivism ; it is generally supposed that the existence of this subjective obligation is an objective fact . ) |
| 13 | It is supposed that the ratio between the actual and predicted hospital mortalities , a value known as the standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) , can be used to compare ICUs , but the following example illustrates the problem . |
| 14 | Only the most starry-eyed optimist could have supposed that the Union of the Crowns and then , at last , the Act of Union in 1707 making the two countries one would somehow bring immediate peace in a region with such memories . |
| 15 | It is often supposed that the steam does something because it is steam . |
| 16 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 17 | Bohr therefore supposed that the electron had to occupy a circular orbit whose angular momentum took one of the discrete values |
| 18 | I would have supposed that the question in Reg. v. Lawrence was whether appropriation necessarily involved an absence of consent . |
| 19 | I would have supposed that the question in Reg. v. Lawrence was whether appropriation necessarily involved an absence of consent . |
| 20 | Contrary , however , to the view of Lord Roskill in Morris , Lawrence was a case in Parker LJ 's view very much concerned with appropriation : " I would have supposed that the question in Lawrence 's case was whether appropriation necessarily involved an absence of consent . " |
| 21 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 22 | Culyer and Brazier ( 1988 ) described the Enthoven model but argued that ‘ since it is usually supposed that the competition for contracts would not be restricted to NHS institutions we prefer the term ‘ provider markets ’ to the more usual ‘ internal markets ’ ’ . |
| 23 | It might be supposed that the loss of his ships , with Grágás his flagship among them , was the greatest single blow that a sea-lord such as Thorfinn might receive . |
| 24 | Rayleigh and Jeans , who did their calculations by different methods , had both supposed that the energy seeped in and out of the black body in a perfectly continuous way . |
| 25 | In the example here it might plausibly be supposed that the age of the pupils might well influence attainment or otherwise modify the effect of the causal factor . |
| 26 | Their administrators had too readily supposed that the pleasure of kicking a ball across a stretch of grass was an acceptable substitute for the real danger and excitement of a raid . |
| 27 | It has been traditionally supposed that the language presented to learners should be simplified in some way for easy access and acquisition . |
| 28 | Traditionally it was supposed that the teacher 's authority to inflict punishment on a pupil derived from the implied delegation of parental authority . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |
| 30 | It must be stressed that the Vehicle Watchdog is not a burglar alarm . |