Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |
| 32 | There were one or two things that may concern them ( the scratchy sound of the orchestra for one ) , though nothing that should deter them from tuning in , for the singing was generally fine , with particularly good contributions from the basses ( Michael George and Peter Harvey ) , the soprano Nancy Argenta , the tenor Andrew Murgatroyd , the ‘ cantor ’ Nicholas Robertson and the choir itself , here expanded , of course , to The Twenty . |
| 33 | His apprehensions are fuelled by a crop of injuries that may deprive him of Paul McGrath ( hamstring ) , Kevin Moran ( bruised back ) and Steve Staunton ( ankle ) . |
| 34 | ‘ There is nothing I can tell you , Officer , ’ said Iris in her stilted French , ‘ but my friend has something that may interest you . ’ |
| 35 | There is a section in Sue Sharpe 's Voices from Home ( Virago Upstarts , 1990 ) that may echo your own feelings , entitled ‘ Dieting to resist ’ . |
| 36 | ‘ You mean that you do know something that may help them ? ’ |
| 37 | When Northern crops crash up against a new pest or a new processing requirement , breeders hightail it back to the gene pool in search of the genetic variability that may help them . |
| 38 | This booklet has been prepared to give general information about adapting your homes and about other options that may help you establish and maintain independence . |
| 39 | One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating . |
| 40 | Here are some questions that may help you further define the values of your department and/or organisation : |
| 41 | Their vision of ‘ the planet being as it were wrapped in telepathic or electronic thought of more and more brains working away ’ seems to her ‘ dangerously like the pollution that may stifle it ’ and ‘ essentially an elitist dream ’ ( 1981:388 ) . |
| 42 | To inform them of who to contact if they have a problem plus benefits , discounts etcet etcetera , with particular emphasis on accrual benefits that may be lost if membership lapses , and the possible mention of loyalty benefits that may assist them in helping to recruit and retain other members . |
| 43 | The case of the ‘ pinocheques ’ is not the only case of apparent corruption that has come to light since the general left power , though it is the one that may touch him directly . |
| 44 | For all their adult lives they are solitary polyps , glued to the rock , their tentacles waving in the water ready to trap prey that may touch them . |
| 45 | We mourn the loss of the person who died and we respond to the change that this effects in our lives with panic or elation or anxiety or a whole gamut of emotions that may take us by surprise . |
| 46 | Finally a metal detoxifier attacks heavy metals like copper that may find their way in through the tapwater . |
| 47 | It is only those schools that have been predominantly academic , and independent schools which have seldom tangled with CSE or Mode 3 levels that may find it new . |
| 48 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 49 | A principle of inquiry can not be something that may keep us from recognizing a clear and settled conception . |
| 50 | So we continue travelling hopefully , traversing the geography , and absorbing impressions that may get me out of the pictorial routine that all artists are prone to . |
| 51 | It is already offering non-IBM peripherals for the DPX/20s , something that may allow it to undercut IBM 's pricing , and intends to add bespoke features to the hardware , such as terminal support , before the end of the year . |
| 52 | I 've got some news that may cheer you up . ’ |
| 53 | ‘ That ought to do it . ’ |
| 54 | Quickly he added one more note : thirty francs , that ought to do it , in the boy 's terms , it was a fortune . |
| 55 | ‘ I offer you a division of Lothian that ought to suit us both , ’ Thorfinn said . |
| 56 | Provided America does n't pull out of the alliance completely , that ought to give us all some protection . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ That ought to settle them , ’ he said . |
| 58 | This kind of thinking has n't featured in election campaigning , so though friends warn me that I 'll be submerged in a great placid pool of meditation , I 'm off to Dartington to gather a few hints on the ideas that ought to guide our future . |
| 59 | That ought to concern us all . |
| 60 | Finally , he underestimates the ability of pop fans to live with hidden or even oven meanings in pop that ought to affront them . |