Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bribed my way into a gang that I heard would be — ‘ |
| 2 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 3 | I would n't take anything that I thought might be too harmful and detrimental to my health , y'know . |
| 4 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 5 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 6 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 7 | The clearest and most sophisticated expositions of secularisation that I know can be found in Martin ( 1978 ) and Dobbelaere ( 1981 ) . |
| 8 | In view of the shortage of time , my speech will be rather more in note form than I intended , but I hope that the points that I make will be clear . |
| 9 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 10 | As Cohen ( 1984 : 227 ) points out : ‘ by detachment I do not mean we have to distance ourselves emotionally ; that I think would be perverse . |
| 11 | Just to complete the picture on the districts around York , erm and in answer to the issue raised by er Miss Whitaker , I think the villages in erm the Harrogate sector of Greater York are all far too small to erm act as a nucleus for the size of development we 're talking about here , er the largest of them , Upper Poppleton , probably has about seven hundred to eight hundred houses , and that I think would be swamped and lose its character and also possibly suffer from coalescence with the nearby York urban area , if er large amounts of additional development were tacked onto it . |
| 12 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 13 | The Whitchurch one is probably the second most advanced one now after the Victoria , Oswestry ward , but the Oswestry , sorry the Victoria ward instead of Oswestry , and there is a , a , a need , I think Chairman , that I think will be very close now to , to forming a , a , a joint consortium to look at , which goes between the County , er , the District , the Town Council , the Tech , the Rural Development Commission , local businesses in Whitchurch , the local Chamber of Commerce in Whitchurch , to try to pull everybody together , to pool their efforts and resources for the town . |
| 14 | That I think will be |
| 15 | One , one of the things that I think will be in value to you , once the systems in place , is to have some standard agenda items for the quality committee meeting and that may be sensible as being one of them . |
| 16 | I want now to look at some aspects of self-experience that I think should be central to any theory of self , and hence to any discussion of women 's autonomy . |
| 17 | Erm , it 's unusual for anybody to have their speed as low as forty miles an hour so I 'm very disappointed in having a radial road that I think should be a fairly fast route out of town thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 18 | What I 'm trying to say is that it 's providing for people already here that I think should be a major item of population policy , and doing it not in a massive world sense , or even a country , but in particular areas as well . |
| 19 | it 's a kind of thing that I think could be put and take and people could pick up at the box office |
| 20 | I actually put out a quite a thick document that I think could be classed as a a |
| 21 | Essentially it adds to measures in various statutes , notably in the Highways Act 1980 — covering England and Wales — and the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 , so that traffic-calming techniques of the sort that I outlined can be constructed by highway and road authorities . |
| 22 | Now that I propose will be achieved by the use of the two existing community constables and transferring two officers from to . |
| 23 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 24 | As requested I wrote and asked about self-catering accommodation at the conference and I received a reply saying that there 's one house that erm she 's come across that she thinks might be particularly suitable for us . |
| 25 | Impulsive by nature and eager to experience fully the love that she knows will be hers for life , Helen is scrupulous in her demands on his friendship and earnest in her desire to learn by his side . |
| 26 | In Nicholson 's case , the description came with the ever-present prefix that on the occasions he has tried acid , it was used properly to avoid bad trips ; thus , he had ‘ come to terms with things that you perceive would be otherwise impossible — things that help you understand yourself … plus , if used properly , it can means quite a lot of kicks . ’ |
| 27 | Er , you would be persuasive , the language that you use will be in a positive sense , a positive vein . |
| 28 | Did you yourself give thought to the action that you thought would be required ? |
| 29 | The Air Miles that you collect can be exchanged for Holiday Vouchers that can be used to pay for all or part of your holiday . |
| 30 | The things that you say would be the things that he would say . |