Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are people whose early experience of bodily closeness , intimacy and care has been so uncomfortable or so traumatic that they dare not risk a repetition of such pain . |
| 2 | Douglas held that they dare not risk this , Ramsay agreeing , and they persuaded his uncle to so rule . |
| 3 | The principal concern of Edward 's ministers , as always , was to raise money for the war , and they hoped by making concessions to receive the grants the king needed ; but the concession of pardon for all debts of £10 or less was insufficient , and the commons insisted that they dare not grant a tax without consulting their communities . |
| 4 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 5 | And Lucy knew they were there to be lovers , Jay knew like her heartbeat that they would make love . |
| 6 | It mattered as little as it seemed to matter to Lucy that they would have — yet another — three weeks apart . |
| 7 | From the family holiday in Tunisia , to come and stay with Jay — no question that they would be lovers ! |
| 8 | They were not sure that they would see 30 ; millions had not , scarcely a decade ago . |
| 9 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 10 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 11 | I 'd imagined that they would eat food fit for pigs , and look upon our food with distaste . |
| 12 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 13 | The majority of the responses indicated that they would like to receive these digests on a quarterly basis . |
| 14 | The council argued that it had adopted a sex equality policy to enable both men and women over 60 to rent elderly persons ' dwellings , but that they would now have to review these ‘ progressive ’ policies . |
| 15 | The scholars of the Renaissance courts studied in depth the philosophy and dictates of classical authors and applied their knowledge to the education of courtiers , so that they would act and behave correctly in the new society . |
| 16 | Students at the University of Hong Kong announced that they would be organising groups in which students could be ‘ educated in concepts of democracy and freedom ’ . |
| 17 | Though both are still being briefed , there are indications that they would like to use the shock of the Tiananmen massacre as a negotiating tool with which to recover some of the concessions made by their predecessors in respect of Hong Kong . |
| 18 | Mr Gray said the fact of the repatriations from Allied-occupied Austria in May and June 1945 was accepted , but what was at issue was Lord Aldington 's role , and the allegation that he knew that they would be killed . |
| 19 | Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’ |
| 20 | Police indicated that they would charge him under Zimbabwe 's Law and Order Maintenance Act for a statement he issued on Monday accusing the government of ‘ state terrorism ’ against students . |
| 21 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 22 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 23 | Both said they had decided not to put their families through the ordeal of the embassy occupation and appeared to believe the assurance of Wolfgang Vogel , special envoy of Erich Honecker , the East German leader , that they would all be allowed to leave for the West with their dependents within six months . |
| 24 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 25 | If East Germans have the freedom to choose , can we really be confident that they would prefer to face the difficulties of establishing a capitalist economy and democratic system on their own ? |
| 26 | White House officials insist this is a misunderstanding ; US interest in the coup evaporated rapidly when the rebels made it clear that they would not hand over Noriega . |
| 27 | He says he knew from the start that they would spread conformity . |
| 28 | Originally , the team mixed prawn nutrients with amines , thinking that they would be needed to form the capsule . |
| 29 | The French have also favoured a continued production clause so that they would be able to develop new binaries during the 10-year period . |
| 30 | Sister Jane Anne said that they would continue their fight : ‘ We do n't want to give up until there has been a fair hearing . ’ |