Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] they [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 2 | This involves helping pupils so to develop skills of reflective thinking that they can be generously affirming of others without losing their own footing . |
| 3 | This is because such inferences often arise wherever features of the context do not actually block them , with the result that they can be easily confused with the permanent aspects of the semantics of the expressions involved . |
| 4 | If users find the technical quality of the system to be low , they are unlikely to welcome it , with the result that they will be disinclined to use it . ’ |
| 5 | Never once had it crossed Jasper 's or Bert 's mind that they might be refused . |
| 6 | Behind Lord Denning 's concern to protect these institutions ' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves , and that their integrity would be compromised . |
| 7 | During April he was obliged to withdraw two bills ( one of which changed voting rules in regional elections ) and to postpone another for fear that they would be defeated . |
| 8 | Wilson had no time to miss him and his family or her other gentleman , who had joined their party , before the Brownings were back , similarly propelled by the fear that they might be trapped because of war . |
| 9 | Or , as is much more likely to be the truth of the matter , evidence of the parents ' fear that they might be depriving the child of some advantage if the ritual is omitted . |
| 10 | The IWC has said that there is no scope for slaughtering minke whales for fear that they might be driven into extinction . |
| 11 | There was a nationalist fear that they might be confined to an internal Northern Ireland settlement , but this has been denied . |
| 12 | It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces . |
| 13 | It seems to us to contravene all normal rules of equity that they should be able to behave in this fashion . |
| 14 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 15 | Such stories , and they are legion , are quite accurate with respect to the intention and perspective of business and marketing interests , but it will be argued in the next chapter that they may be a poor foundation for an understanding of the nature of consumption . |
| 16 | It is nevertheless through their ideal functioning that they must be understood . |
| 17 | The new standards demand that by 1998 at least two per cent ( 40,000 ) of all new cars must emit no smog-producing gases at all , which means in effect that they must be powered by electricity . |
| 18 | Excluded property which is not to be included in the estate of a person ( which means the aggregate of all the property to which that person is beneficially entitled including settled property in which he has an interest in possession ) immediately before his death embraces for CTT purposes : ( a ) settled property situated outside the United Kingdom unless the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made ; and ( b ) securities issued by the Treasury subject to the condition that they shall be exempt from taxation while in the beneficial ownership of persons neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom provided in the case of settled property either that such . |
| 19 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 20 | We have established that for pitch differences to be linguistically significant , it is a necessary condition that they should be under the speaker 's control . |
| 21 | It is simply her case that they would be better off with her in England rather than without her in Australia . |
| 22 | It is not , however , necessarily the case that they will be able to influence policy decisions or even specific proposals ; that , as we have said , depends on the institutional and political arrangements and access . |
| 23 | They have the advantage that they can be calculated for most countries in the world . |
| 24 | Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ . |
| 25 | Environmental manipulations have the considerable advantage that they can be used in wild populations , and they are also relatively quick . |
| 26 | The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line . |
| 27 | Matrices have the advantage that they can be added together and multiplied by scalar quantities ; further the concepts of determinant and trace are available to aid computation . |
| 28 | We will discuss here two different methods which have the advantage that they can be combined into a more comprehensive system . |
| 29 | Solid state transducers have the important advantage that they can be used in the ambulatory patient and are becoming readily available . |
| 30 | It is to no-one 's advantage that they should be homogenised . |