Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | He would ask young Alex for the ring , and see that it was put well on Mary 's finger , he would wish them to be happy and fruitful and true to one another and that nothing would ever part them . |
2 | My arched body had moved gingerly toward the only hold , and once there I stood upright and whooped knowing that nothing would stop me now . |
3 | The company 's advisers , Baring Brothers , believe that nothing would be served by making Sir Derek a scapegoat at this stage . |
4 | Odd-Knut was ahead of us , so that nothing would stop him being first away . |
5 | Polgar claimed that nothing would change ; when the girls married , their husbands would become part of an extended family . |
6 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
7 | Miller was also interested in the fruit garden at Goodwood and reported on trials carried out with various walls to see if a circular construction might be beneficial , but he came to the conclusion that nothing would thrive in a constant draught of air . |
8 | Flew thinks that nothing would . |
9 | In both cases , one could make the point against Flew that the believer does not accept that nothing would count against his or her belief in God . |
10 | Against this , protected by the sheltering arm of state-owned companies and compliant politicians , the nuclear industry has set its strongest claims — that nothing would undercut power from the miraculous uranium . |
11 | If the mountain is beautiful from the shore , it is mouth-watering from the top of Ben Damph , and as we retraced our steps through the snow , elated at having finally swapped slippers for boots and crampons , we knew that nothing would keep us from it . |
12 | Miss Fogerty assured her that nothing would be disclosed and slipped out of the side door . |
13 | Respondents understood very clearly the difficult role of the manager , and some workers openly confessed that nothing would induce them to take on the manager 's job ! |
14 | ‘ The Prophet ’ had always been made welcome at Priesthill and Isabel assured him that nothing would change ; their door would be open to him at all times . |
15 | In spite of the iciness of the day he felt warm and exhilarated , and he was determined that nothing would prevent him from attending . |
16 | But I knew that nothing would ever discourage him ; he 'd never give up wanting to be a director , and he 'd never be any good . |
17 | Despite the well-deserved victory against the Premier League outfit , Cambridge chairman Reg Smart said that nothing would be announced for at least another 24 hours . |
18 | Local residents who gathered at the site of the testing were assured by County Engineer Liam Mullins that nothing would go ahead until a full meeting of the County Council discussed the matter . |
19 | This assumption — that nothing would persuade the Chamberlain Government to make an alliance with the Soviet Union — was axiomatic on the left . |
20 | By December it was clear that nothing would happen . |
21 | I looked at the old man calmly sitting on his mat and hated him , knowing — knowing myself — that nothing would come of this . |
22 | Was that branding so early and deep that nothing would heal over it ? |
23 | She wished fervently that they might be allowed to be together , that nothing would happen to make them part . |
24 | The prosecuting counsel said that nothing would be heard to criticise the victim 's character , who was timid and nervous . |
25 | Artemis threw the reins at his head so that nothing would check him . |
26 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
27 | I still could n't quite believe that nothing would ever be the same again , |
28 | But that was your real nature , and it told me that nothing would make you kill an innocent man , a complete stranger , who had done you no harm . |
29 | I felt certain that nothing would cut out this mad idea until I found those missing relics , and the un-supernatural explanation I knew , in my heart , existed . |
30 | He did not keep a watch on her ; there was no necessity , and in his own mind he was almost convinced that nothing would happen . |