Example sentences of "that [pron] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two assistants swore that nothing would have changed by the time he returned . |
| 2 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 3 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 4 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 5 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ that everyone might have been flung about a bit . |
| 6 | I mean , this lot did come in , only six months ago , announcing that everyone would have to stand on their own feet and not be rescued , and face up to competition , and all that . |
| 7 | A guide to procedure should be produced so that everyone would have an outline of a desirable order of events and to ensure proper standards of fairness and impartiality . |
| 8 | On the day on which the Secretary of State gave a pledge to his party conference that everyone would have equal access to free health care , I was contacted by a constituent , Mr. Ronnie Watson , who had been waiting since September 1990 for an appointment with a consultant to discuss a possible hip operation and had just been told that he would have to wait until some unspecified date in 1992 . |
| 9 | Thus it seems that the only understanding that the persons in the original position can reach is that everyone should have the greatest equal liberty consistent with a similar liberty for others . |
| 10 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |
| 11 | While we all think that everyone should have unlimited access to public areas , we have to live in the real world and accept that all sports and hobbies are controlled in some way or other . |
| 12 | The aim is that there should be something for everybody in all parts of the country and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons . ’ |
| 13 | It is right and proper that everyone should have the same opportunity , but this can be controlled by one officer in my belief . |
| 14 | ‘ We are very keen that everyone will have a clear idea of what is involved . ’ |
| 15 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 16 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 17 | If I sat still and did not do anything then nothing else could happen that I might have to cope with . |
| 18 | Write Ellen and by express even telegram for which I will pay in order that I might have the relief of knowing you have understood and all is clear . |
| 19 | Imagine my excitement , therefore , when it seemed recently that I might have stumbled across it in the shape of the Tower House in Malmesbury , Wiltshire . |
| 20 | W. Hewer and myself towards Westminster ; and there he carried me to Nott 's , the famous bookbinder , that bound for my Lord Chancellor 's library : and there I did take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound , only that I might have one of his binding . |
| 21 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 22 | ‘ Dear lady , dear lady , to think that I might have lived my whole life through and never seen you . |
| 23 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 24 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
| 25 | I hope that I might have undertaken work of this kind without the experience of working for North Tyneside Community Development Project ( CDP ) from 1974 to 1977 , but I did and that experience shaped both the conceptualizing and the carrying out of this project . |
| 26 | It did not enter my head that I might have the seeds of a talent , that I too might have a career and that I should be preparing myself for it . |
| 27 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 28 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 29 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 30 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |