Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billington , however , was a master of his trade and fixed the arms with ropes so that they would absorb some of the shock . |
| 2 | Erm because although they accept that there are certain conditions within the , within the tower block which affect the block as a whole , they would say that they would affect each individual flat to a greater or lesser degree and that they would have to be taken on individual merit . |
| 3 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 4 | The market mechanism fails to provide a means whereby workers can signal to firms that they would demand more goods and services if only they could get jobs and so have more money to spend . |
| 5 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 6 | told a Gallup poll that they believed that they would pay more tax under a Labour Government and 59 per cent . |
| 7 | While Porter is obviously right to argue that there is no economic reason for completely separable SBUs to be combined , it does not follow that they would function any better by becoming completely independent . |
| 8 | By early 1973 it was clear that they would do little or nothing to protect the exchange rate from the impact of domestic policies , and indeed increasingly resented the attempts of European and Japanese central banks to prevent the dollar rate from finding its own level . |
| 9 | But the company insists there will still be a need to build the reservoir and that they would do all they can to minimise the impact it makes on the surrounding countryside when that happens . |
| 10 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 11 | They instructed us to tell the promoter that they would give some money towards the gig 's adverts in the local papers . |
| 12 | Peter McAleer of Ennex told the Sunday Tribune : ‘ When we bought Mogul of Ireland from its previous owners it was on the understanding that they would retain any responsibility for any earlier workings at Silvermines and that includes the tailings pond ’ . |
| 13 | The French and Spanish critics rarely seem to have firm convictions about matters of performance practice ( although they usually feel strongly about the character and quality of the performance ) , and we may suppose that they would regard such convictions as an impediment to the essentially journalistic nature of their enterprise . |
| 14 | They said it would breach N H S codes of confidentiality but that they would review this decision if Mr was still missing later today . |
| 15 | Blaming the low turnout on bad weather and a lack of public awareness of the issues , they announced that they would seek another such vote in October . |
| 16 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 17 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 18 | Looking through the booklet the head had given them , I guessed that they would have some difficulty making sense of it . |
| 19 | The Admiralty were also well aware that the Air Council would oppose a naval bid for Polaris , and that they would have most of Whitehall on their side . |
| 20 | Both the UK and the USA subsequently announced that they would cease all CFC production by the end of 1995 — five years earlier than the date agreed in the Montreal Protocol [ see ED no 35/36 ] . |
| 21 | They have asked for two thousand pounds , the Centre have asked for two thousand pounds from all County Councils , but I know that they would accept less if we negotiate that , a lower figure . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | Thus it was hoped that they would seize any opportunity of increasing awareness and understanding of mental frailty in old age , among professionals , lay carers and local people in such a way as to increase people 's sympathy and confidence in any contacts they might have with elderly mentally frail people . |
| 24 | And , if there are limitations on our ability to make such inferences , are they in any sense serious or just casual , in that they would require more effort than anyone is normally prepared to put in ? |
| 25 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |
| 26 | And did they know that they would get some money when he died ? ’ |
| 27 | Boal sought and received assurances from a number of leading Unionists that they would join such a movement but , when the Ulster Democratic Unionist party was launched on 30 October 1971 , many of those who had expressed interest were absent . |
| 28 | An incurable optimist , she was sure that they would find some way of making their living , but she knew that her sister was afraid they would n't — and in that case , of course , they would have to let the cottage , and separate after all . |
| 29 | Many reasons occur why it is improbable that they would take such a step which both students and professor would have cause to regret … ’ |
| 30 | In the mortgage deed the respondents further covenanted that they would purchase all their requirements from the appellants exclusively . |