Example sentences of "[vb past] that they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 2 | The EPA and FDA , together with the Department of Agriculture , promised that they would use both reports " as a basis for formulating the legislative and regulatory policies needed to put the Administration 's principles [ for cutting pesticide use ] into effect " . |
| 3 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 4 | All the places you mentioned that they used to meet , my husband had been there recently . |
| 5 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 6 | This does not , however , mean that the peasantry were contented , nor does it prove that they were particularly prosperous ; rather it suggests that the peasantry found that they could secure their aims more effectively by passive resistance and the exploitation of their economic power than by violence . |
| 7 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 8 | The supermarkets then found that they could charge bigger margins on goods that were peripheral to their core business , processed foods . |
| 9 | Attfield and Duck ( 1982 ) found that they could reject the rational expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates when they applied the above model to three-monthly , five-yearly and ten-yearly rates of interest in the UK . |
| 10 | The walls were lined with layers of raincoats of a uniform dun , as though their colours had run together ; they went back years — some had even belonged to her father and were so stiff and cracked that they could have stood unsupported . |
| 11 | However , by choosing their specialties and places of work carefully , most people reported that they could fulfil all of their work obligations . |
| 12 | Having lost their serfs , they realized that they would have to alter not only the basis on which they conducted their money-raising activities , but also perhaps the activities themselves . |
| 13 | Although he mistrusted the policeman , he realized that they could have both died if the Citation had crashed . |
| 14 | She had n't thought about how much of her hour remained , until bells started ringing , and she realized that they must have gone for her . |
| 15 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 16 | The shorter prologue of Lex Salica states that With God 's help it pleased the Franks and their nobility and they agreed that they ought to prohibit all escalations of quarrels for the preservation of enthusiasm for peace among themselves ; and because they excelled other neighbouring peoples by force of arms , so they should excel them in legal authority , with the result that criminal cases might be concluded in a manner appropriate to the type of complaint . |
| 17 | The two leaders agreed that they would meet on a regular basis in the future , perhaps annually and with less formality , and Gorbachev invited Bush to the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | After an amicable wrangle , they agreed that they would get dressed and go shopping together . |
| 19 | Just under two-thirds , 63% , agreed that they would use training to prepare themselves either to tackle a new enterprise or to intensify an existing one . |
| 20 | But when he surmised the attack was due that night , Tom Ingledew agreed that they would have to sacrifice some fighting capacity on that front — and even some lives — in order to gain the maximum advantage from keeping the sloop as a decoy . |
| 21 | The three countries agreed that they would withdraw their co-operation even if the Warsaw Treaty summit now went ahead . |
| 22 | Stephen agreed that they must tell Mrs Blakey . |
| 23 | They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it , and sift through the trapped folk . |
| 24 | Despite the unceremonious manner of the suggestion , she agreed that they should give the idea a try . |
| 25 | Kit Everard shared his suspicions with Tom Ingledew , who , though he feared terribly for his son 's life , agreed that they should seize the offensive , in secret , and place all their forces on the qui vive that night , in readiness for battle in the morning . |
| 26 | He agreed that they could disembark at Peterborough and wait for the 2.30pm train . |
| 27 | As the children walked ahead , Jack and his wife agreed that they could sense a strange atmosphere , something eerie and unpleasant . |
| 28 | An EC Commission report delivered to EC governments on Oct. 9 recommended that they should take measures to restrict illegal immigration and to harmonize procedures on asylum and that the situation of legal immigrants and genuine refugees within the EC should be improved . |
| 29 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 30 | Although one can understand the Opposition having difficulty with their own Back Benchers , I never expected that they would have difficulty with members of their own Front Bench . |