Example sentences of "[to-vb] that [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 2 | This is to request that you will send me no more goods unless ordered . |
| 3 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 4 | Under these conditions we have little option other than to accept that we can do little more than look with envy towards those farmers in New Zealand making a living without the ‘ benefit ’ of subsidies . |
| 5 | Prison reformers have been slow to adapt to prison realities , and to accept that they must address the wider canvas of the criminal justice process . |
| 6 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 7 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 8 | She thought it unlikely that this was due to concern for her feelings — it would be a new departure for him to accept that she might have any , apart from avarice . |
| 9 | It is obvious that a horse will run from a stick , spurs or fear of the rider , but it is hard to accept that he will try to pull on the bit if that very action increases the pain . |
| 10 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |
| 11 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 12 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 13 | It has had to accept that it can do neither without a deal with the opposition . |
| 14 | Most sceptics about natural selection are prepared to accept that it can bring about minor changes like the dark coloration that has evolved in various species of moth since the industrial revolution . |
| 15 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 16 | Aung San and his supporters were demanding full independence , but I happened to know that they would have been content , possibly even pleased , to be granted Dominion status . |
| 17 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 18 | READERS might like to know that they can play a part in choosing the UK ‘ People of the Year ’ . |
| 19 | Bond owners might like to know that they can use her Knitmaster Chunky ribber-carrying cases for their machines — the bags are the perfect size for the Bond Classic . |
| 20 | The double windows , divided by twin columns , are the most pleasing thing in the room , with simply sculpted capitals , of a demon , the head of Christ , animals , birds , stars and flowers ; these , like the door between them , once gave on to the cloister , and it is nice to know that they will do so again , once that vital adjunct has been rebuilt . |
| 21 | To know that somebody could read your mind , or move an object without touching it , seems unbelievable . |
| 22 | ‘ … it will be a great thing not to have to depend on the fickle wind for making a passage , and still more to know that we may pounce down upon those rascally fast-sailing dhows whenever we can sight them in a calm , and be sure of overtaking them … ’ |
| 23 | It is extremely gratifying to know that we will have a knowledgeable and committed environmentalist in the House of Lords on whom we can rely for help whenever the need arises . |
| 24 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 25 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 26 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 27 | It was gratifying to know that she could feel the same as him . |
| 28 | We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it . |
| 29 | Of course , you can always do more but it is encouraging to know that you can reap the benefits of exercise in just ninety minutes a week . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't take it out very often but it 's nice to have , to know that you can go anywhere you want if you feel like it . ’ |