Example sentences of "[adj] [that] he [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Home Office officials indicated that , in the absence of new evidence , Mr Waddington would make it clear that he would be unable to take any initiative . |
| 2 | It could also prove too great a hurdle for Mr Gould , a well-known Euro-sceptic , who made clear that he would be pressing for Labour to rethink its economic policy and to advocate realignment of the pound within the European exchange rate mechanism to enable it to put forward more positive policies on industry and employment . |
| 3 | Instead , at a press briefing , he made it clear that he would be looking to private benefactors to come to the rescue in extreme cases , and pointing to the successful purchases of ‘ Portrait of a lady with a squirrel and a starling ’ by Holbein for the National Gallery ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.1 ) and Canaletto 's ‘ The Old Horse Guards , London , from St James 's Park ’ by Andrew Lloyd-Webber ( see The Art Newspaper No.19 June 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | It was clear that he would be getting married very soon . |
| 5 | The Dalai Lama should be congratulated on the great honour which is to be bestowed on him , and the Prime Minister or the Foreign Secretary should make it clear that he will be warmly welcomed when next he is able to visit London . |
| 6 | Mitch 's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire . |
| 7 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 8 | He felt guilty as he thought of Maeve 's sweet face , and embarrassed that he should be so powerfully attracted to a woman dedicated to God . |
| 9 | They were afraid that he would be unhappy about their success , because he had wanted to be a writer himself . |
| 10 | She was , however , very much afraid that he would be angry with her . |
| 11 | A girl who is very tall for her age may fear that she will go on growing at the same rate indefinitely , while a boy who is shorter than his mates of the same age may be afraid that he will be permanently undersized . |
| 12 | It was odd that he should be there . |
| 13 | It was possible that he would be detained and interned for the duration of the war which now seemed only hours or days away . |
| 14 | ‘ Then it is possible that he will be planning to spend some time in Tbilisi . |
| 15 | But it would be absurd that he should be able to plead the jury 's verdict in the first trial as a bar to the second . |
| 16 | It was absurd that she had n't guessed straightaway and absurd that he should be standing in a telephone booth somewhere , talking about a queue forming . |
| 17 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 18 | She said she was grateful that he could be a real gent when he tried . |
| 19 | ‘ You did n't think it strange that he would be prepared to go to Marseilles to deliver these engine parts ? |
| 20 | He does not consider it necessary to examine the patients who consult him , and he seemed unaware that he might be failing to detect serious conditions , symptoms of which a patient might erroneously have associated with diet . |
| 21 | A spokesperson for Cope told NME : ‘ It 's ironic that he should be released ( from his contract ) at a time when he 's at his creative peak and his work is more popular than ever . |
| 22 | He would miss her when she 'd gone , certainly , and it was not impossible that he might be driven to drink away his grief , resulting in one of his rare fits of violent temper . |
| 23 | It is appropriate that he should be the one with the empty belly addressing his friend . |
| 24 | ‘ When I took over in 1990 , Nigel only had one cap and I was n't absolutely convinced that he would be an integral part of the team . |
| 25 | ‘ And it 's now made Jamie even more convinced that he can be one of the best . |
| 26 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 27 | How do you know she 's left you ? ’ asked Pascoe , still suspicious that he might be listening to the self-deceiving euphemism of murder . |
| 28 | A sensitive pilot could then be so confused that he would be unable to respond logically to the situation , particularly if it happened at night or in cloud . |
| 29 | It was unthinkable that John could be dead , but it had been unthinkable that he would be held for this long and it had happened . |
| 30 | But she was afraid , of her own wild reaction to him , acutely conscious that he would be utterly merciless in taking advantage of it as long as he had no respect for her . |