Example sentences of "[pron] that [vb mod] [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay I that would have been okay in that particular case but you did come back to it as benefit , you say we have n't seen you for such a long time that was a not just look at your policies but to put a , a face to the name so I can become your point of reference |
| 2 | Erm you had friends everywh , in all sorts of places , you did n't dally , shall we say , in some of them that might have been a bit smelly . |
| 3 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 4 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
| 5 | A huge , icing-covered cake with a welcome-home message from airport staff greeted the plucky youngster on her arrival and she quickly tucked into the tasty treat — something that would have been impossible for her just a few months ago . |
| 6 | Fifteen hundred pound if he was prepared to put a deposit down or something that would have been fifteen hundred quid . |
| 7 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 8 | And gradually , the King 's hand relaxed , and his bearing , and lastly his face , across which flickered indistinct and curious emotions : of relief and annoyance , of affection and something that might have been shame . |
| 9 | The flush was still there , and in his voice something that might have been an appeal . |
| 10 | She stared , and said something that might have been a question or a rejection . |
| 11 | A sound , the barest whisper of something that might have been a moan , rose in her throat . |
| 12 | Within one eye socket of the indeterminate monstrosity behind the wheel something that could have been an eye popped loudly and viscous yellow fluid streamed down the corpse 's ravaged face . |
| 13 | A crash or a motoring conviction was viewed as unlucky , rather than something that should have been avoided . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 15 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 16 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 17 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 18 | I knew that Vecchi 's reason for shooting Mahoney was something that must have been worrying Mr. Bonanza . |
| 19 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 20 | The historian 's first and final duty , however , remains the explanation of the world that was , rather than the one that might have been . |
| 21 | We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 . |
| 22 | His film , Kwietniowski straightforwardly claims , is one that would have been approved of by Noel Coward 's unconscious . |
| 23 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 24 | The better they get , the better they could have been ; and no one likes to leave a past behind him that could have been better . |
| 25 | My judgment rests upon the view that the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 26 | ‘ the plaintiffs had quite enough compulsion upon them from the terms of the Act itself , apart altogether from anything that may have been said or done by officers of government . |
| 27 | In other words , the subconscious was working in an expanding way , trying to think of anything that might have been overlooked . |
| 28 | Duncan got in the cab and searched for anything that might have been left . |
| 29 | This requires bravery — to go against the ‘ safety first ’ approach — but , paradoxically , it is possible under LMS , and working with the governing body , to structure schools and their management in ways very different from anything that would have been possible before . |
| 30 | It mattered to him that the people of the south were of ancient lineage , far beyond anything that could have been imagined by the Americans he had known in New York , back in the Tens and Twenties . |