Example sentences of "that we [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 2 | It seemed just possible that we might meet in Menton , where she went as judge for the Katherine Mansfield Prize — an inappropriate meeting-place , for we both greatly disliked ‘ K.M. ’ She was to inspire the admirable story ‘ Sisters ’ in Elizabeth 's next collection — the story of a cosy , bourgeoise , widowed ex-mayoress in a provincial town being embarrassed by questions about her famous , disreputable sister . |
| 3 | I think Simon 's suggesting that we might benefit in terms of . |
| 4 | A joy for all seasons , a haven for blackbird and robin and a screen between ourselves and our neighbours that we might go about our separate business unobserved . |
| 5 | Now we never set up questions on the show — we 'll discuss areas that we might go into , but we never say , ‘ You say this to me , and then I 'll say that to you ’ , it just does n't work like that . |
| 6 | I mean , Blackbeard must know we could 'ave recognized the man from the newspaper photograph , and that we might go to the police about it . ’ |
| 7 | I would have thought that we might go on holiday , well going on quite a long holiday , we 're going on holiday after the project video 's completed , so it 'll be Christmas for me |
| 8 | What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind . |
| 9 | As I understand our responsibilities and obligations in Europe , we no longer have the freedom of movement that we might want in terms of banning imports . |
| 10 | Er we 're going to er get it drafted up and er we have some money in the , we have some money in our budget , for a gift , and it seems to me appropriate erm that the gift that we might make to Cheskevod is the s trading charter which we can get for the money that we 've budgeted er written by a calligrapher who I 've already contacted , who said that they can do it erm well , for that sort of price , in both English and Czech . |
| 11 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 12 | He even realised that we might slide off him when he accelerated , and provided us with a vine , like a rope , to hang on to . |
| 13 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 14 | However , in society the groups that we might think of as having an influence upon the decision-making processes will be the trade unions , representatives of the business world such as the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , the bureaucracy and political parties . |
| 15 | So long as the Americans are only afraid that we might land on this island , and do n't know we 're already here , they will pay no attention to our activities . |
| 16 | I had thought that we might agree on expelling Germany from the European monetary system , but , at Treasury meditation this morning , I was guided by the Guru Budd to a better idea . |
| 17 | By the time the Winterthur show came around in 1990 I thought it would be interesting to exhibit just the paintings and when Nick Serota , the Director of the Tate , proposed that we might put on another retrospective at his gallery I felt more sure of myself . |
| 18 | So , too , were the practical demonstrations of getting comfortable , breathing exercises and familiarisation with the sorts of equipment that we might encounter during the labour itself . |
| 19 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 20 | For all that we might say about the relevance of performance indicators in financial reporting , a fundamental and seemingly intractable problem remains : performance can not be judged in terms of output alone , economy , efficiency and effectiveness must be judged together . |
| 21 | The fact that their citizens leak into the city to avail themselves of our facilities is something that we might deal with in another sphere , even on day residents were seen to attend the theatre in this town recently , erm unfortunately this authority does n't see fit to actually subsidise the theatre . |
| 22 | None of us can conceive that we might die before our parents . |
| 23 | The situation was only just controllable , but it seemed that we might get to bed before midnight without being beaten up . |
| 24 | The answer is that we can gamble on their occurrence and their nature by so arranging matters that we might profit from them . |
| 25 | The process that we 'll go through is firstly I , now the Council 's made this decision , will speak to the three Social Services Committee spokespersons about which home looks the most logical , and obviously I know which that one is in my own mind . |
| 26 | You can either do what we 've already done or you can base it on stuff that we 'll do in the future . |
| 27 | You 've made very powerfully erm and I 'm that 's a point that we 'll take on board . |
| 28 | ‘ Obviously , as a Liverpool fan , you have to be worried but I 'm perfectly hopeful that we 'll get through this and come back as the force that we always have been . ’ |
| 29 | but , but I think that we 'll get into that stage in Britain |
| 30 | We 're hoping and I 'm crossing my fingers here , that we 'll get in excess of five thousand people there and the interesting thing is we 've got a commercial exhibition at it , to give it a flavour of Scotland where people will show all the good things made in Scotland and we 're calling it the taste and touch of Scotland and hopefully that will offset the cost of all the other , other er stalls and things that we 're holding . |