Example sentences of "that a [noun] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies that a share should sell for PE o times its earnings per share if it is fairly priced . |
| 2 | I knew he was Greek , that he loved me because I was my mother 's child , and that a Greek will put family above every other consideration . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman has not taken into account the £280 that a couple will have received this year because of the so-called flat-rate £140 poll tax reduction . |
| 4 | The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract . |
| 5 | The owner of the horse , realising his value , and that a king would pay a handsome price for him , offered him for sale to King Philip II of Macedonia for the enormous sum of thirteen golden talents . |
| 6 | Perhaps lawyers and judges accept that proposition as true by convention , which means true just because everyone else accepts it , the way chess players all accept that a king can move only one square at a time . |
| 7 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 8 | Wulfstan was not interested in recording this , presumably because as he thought that a king should levy only light taxes he disapproved of the procedure . |
| 9 | It was n't fair that a king should give up his throne for her , and not for the weaver 's daughter . |
| 10 | ‘ What wants yon knave that a king should have ? ’ he demanded . |
| 11 | I believed that a murrain would fall on the hens that he kept on his house-top , a wasting illness on the sheep that he kept by his door . |
| 12 | There are important limitations here so that a guarantee could provide a defence to a manufacturer in respect of damage to property ( personal injury and death being excluded by s2 of UCTA 1977 ) caused by defective goods which is not due to negligence . |
| 13 | It pointed out that a prisoner might die , before the information had been extracted , if the torture was too severe : ‘ One must give them pain to make them respond quickly , to make them afraid , not to kill them , but to bring them close to death . ’ |
| 14 | In an effort to resolve the dispute it was agreed on May 26 that a subcommittee would consider the point at which the Irish government would take part in the talks . |
| 15 | As Marwick has argued , ‘ It is only through knowledge of its history that a society can have knowledge of itself ’ , and Carr has said that ‘ The more sociological history becomes and the more historical sociology becomes , the better for both . ’ |
| 16 | It is also likely that a veto would produce severe strains in the relationship between Edinburgh and London . |
| 17 | Thingol , Luthien 's father , is so enraged that a mortal should dare to woo his daughter that he says he will only give her hand to Beren if he will wrest one of the Silmarils , or enchanted jewels , from the iron crown of the dark lord Margoth . |
| 18 | The reader can thus be aware that a writer may have written round what happens to have been offered . |
| 19 | IT is sad that a pub should turn you away simply for the kind of fashion you decide to adopt , particularly since you had been an accepted customer for some years . |
| 20 | This is not to say that a don must affect mannerisms or artificial eccentricities as a way of keeping his distance from the pupil — though many have done this . |
| 21 | The employer was forced to admit that no replacement had been engaged , which tended to indicate that a redundancy might have been in the offing . |
| 22 | ‘ But it is crazy that a 17-year-old could drive a Porsche or Series 7 BMW . ’ |
| 23 | IT used to be said that ‘ you planted pears for your heirs ’ , the inference being that a generation could pass before the pear trees came into crop . |
| 24 | The more expressive the language , the more possible states can be described in it ; and hence , the larger will be the space of states that a solver may have to search through for a goal . |
| 25 | Alexei leaned a little to one side so that a slave could heap his plate with k'va , the staple grain which was similar to rice . |
| 26 | Such an edge should be set just below the level of the turf so that a machine can run smoothly over the top — simply neaten up once a year with a half moon iron or spade and save that chore of hand edging . |
| 27 | There are three operands , a source and a destination character string , and a translation table with one entry for each possible binary bit pattern that a character can hold . |
| 28 | Note that this does n't mean that a character can carry a special weapon such as a bolt thrower . |
| 29 | Note that this does n't mean that a character can carry a cannon , a Helblaster volley gun , or any other very special weapon such as an Engineer 's Repeater Hand Gun . |
| 30 | There is no law of God or nature that says that a windmill must have four sails , and the independence of millwrights is best seen in Lincolnshire , where there are several surviving mills with more than four sails . |