Example sentences of "that we [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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31 And in fact there are even more subtle things than that you can find if you look carefully at Oh I might er I think that we might go out into the garden and I 'll show you one or two other features out there that are er even more er interesting and er er exciting .
32 A very tight rein was held on all staff , it was as if they were very nervous and suspicious that we might go made and accept a bid !
33 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
34 What you mean is that we might bang into things or kick a detonator on the nose or something of the kind .
35 Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds .
36 Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds .
37 There are many contradictions therefore in the relationship of women to housing , and in the demands that we might want to make .
38 Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word .
39 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 .
40 . O K anything else that we might want to say around those things , that go off .
41 Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what .
42 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 .
43 Well , there are always possible alternative forecasts that we might make , but on the whole I think we know that we have to decide the best possible forecast that we can give , and , well , when I say ‘ the best ’ , the most erm confident forecast that we can push out erm with the information that we have available .
44 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 .
45 There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . "
46 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 .
47 B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ?
48 Although there were more than 100 British nationals killed in the accident there was no provision at that time for a State with such an interest to participate , but knowing that the minister was bound to be asked by MPs in the House what arrangements there were for investigating the cause of death of so many UK citizens I telephoned my old friend Michel Vigier in paris with a formal request that we might send a UK observer .
49 And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important .
50 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 .
51 There was a possibility that we might record it some years ago — such great music , no wonder Wagner was overwhelmed by it !
52 The first great motive for planting churches today is that we might reach the lost .
53 But if this motion is successful and a working party is established , one of the conclusions that we might reach is that General Secretaries should keep their sticky fingers off shops steward 's commissions .
54 As the young owls had fledged , he said that we might expect to find them anywhere in the area , and that the best idea was for us to fan out and scan the branches .
55 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 .
56 But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’
57 Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa .
58 As an interpretative category , it has important advantages over other social models that we might wish to use .
59 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 .
60 It has been suggested that we might put our prayer list on the Overseas Board in church instead of the monthly missionary society 's display , or as well .
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