Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horse that is returned to the paddock after working may only visually check that its normal companions are there , even if they are some distance away , before starting to eat the grass . |
| 2 | She was coldly angry now that he should so calmly assume that what he desired was there for him to take . |
| 3 | Thus the very concept of totalization , distinguished from totality , must always be refused its prospective closure , for if ‘ History continually effects totalisation of totalisations ’ ( I , 15 ) it must necessarily also mean that by definition it can never be absolutely totalized . |
| 4 | They find new ways of sharing what resources there are , whether collaborating in local policing or working with health authorities or whatever it is and I think they form the base for renewal of politics because we have to recreate politics for localities upwards and here , just finally chancing my arm , I must just frankly say that I am not clear that over-large amalgamations of unions will be much more helpful than over-centralized government bureaucracies . |
| 5 | Madam deputy speaker , before I sit down I should also just mention that there is a a European dimension to this issue as in November nineteen ninety two the Vice President of the E C commission , Sir Leon Britton , sketched out some general proposals for community legislation in response to the B C C I affair . |
| 6 | First note that if you argue that , you must now logically think that the disadvantage has gone : prime-borrowing rates in Japan have risen to over 8% , roughly level with those in America . |
| 7 | The criterion of historical effectiveness must almost always mean that their history has to be ignored to give space to explain that of bigger and more effective nations . |
| 8 | we must no longer say that the self perceives , thinks , or loves , or that it has a perception or thought or an emotion . |
| 9 | On the other hand , we might somewhat irreverently say that ex post settling up — in the form of a higher probability of honours ( knighthoods etc. ) than in private industry — provides some compensation . |
| 10 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 11 | The difference of level now would be that of a hierarchy of functions and sub-functions within a single language , though one might still plausibly maintain that the above sequence beginning LIFT-RIGHT-LEG was the translation of WALK in that system . |
| 12 | This might not only reduce the number of vexatious appeals but might also perhaps ensure that the appellant took the trouble to attend the hearing , even if only to collect his 2 . |
| 13 | While we might indeed readily hypothesize that these individuals were generally less likely than Ballymacarrett people to be subject to the pressures of their personal networks and more likely to be subject to a less localized outside influence , it is hard to suggest dimensions on which a number of looseknit networks , which differed greatly from each other , might be systematically compared ( but see 5.7.4 for an account of Bortoni-Ricardo 's study of rural immigrants to a Brazilian city ) . |
| 14 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you push me down again , ’ she warned quietly , ‘ you might very well find that you have a tiger by the tail . |
| 16 | In the case of a defendant who uses words , a person can hardly fail to be aware of what he is saying , although he may possibly not know that what he is displaying ( if it be a book ) contains offensive material of which others are aware but he is not . |
| 17 | His Mum and Dad would wonder why it was open but they 'd most likely think that they had forgotten to lock it . |
| 18 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 19 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 20 | He 'd long ago decided that if you spent all your time listening to what people actually said , you 'd never have time to work out what they meant . |
| 21 | God could so easily say that , too , but he does not ; he negotiates from a basis of weakness which becomes for us the power of God unto salvation . |
| 22 | She could only now assume that Life had served him badly in some way , at least in his own opinion . |
| 23 | I do n't know if I 'm going to , lets see what else is on , Jagged Edge is on I might watch that instead , oh god its still time , I could , yes I think I could just about give that a wide enough berth |
| 24 | They 'd probably better check that the whole place is n't falling down and I 'm afraid they 'll want to see Maggie , but I 'll get rid of them . |
| 25 | ‘ I think we 'd both better forget that today ever happened . ’ |
| 26 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I could take a barrister 's brief for arguing that up to , say , 1985 the squeeze was a necessary remedy for the rather free expansion which had taken place in the 1960s , and early 1970s , ’ says Sir Eric , ‘ but I do n't believe I could even theoretically argue that it has been justifiable since then . |
| 28 | It could equally well mean that it has simply been mislaid . |
| 29 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 30 | We could then plainly see that the fault was in a ‘ purl ’ stitch , so the faulty needle has to be on the main bed . |