Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] that " in BNC.

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1 If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them .
2 Even if the defendant himself can plausibly say that he did not intend to use violence , it is sufficient if he uses the language or behaviour in a situation where the addressee is likely to believe that violence will be used against him either by the speaker or by other persons .
3 When comparing the symptoms of the case and the remedy you should also note that the most important symptoms do not clash or contradict .
4 If you follow football you will already know that a substitute is a man who takes the place of another player .
5 Having become accustomed to wholemeal bread during your F-Plan slimming programme you might well find that , by the time you have got slim , you have actually grown to prefer it .
6 Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation .
7 The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’
8 The alternative may be the public compliance combined with private doubt of the boy who could not accept that the Earth was round .
9 When you are visiting an elderly parent you will probably notice that there are times when they do not feel particularly like either talking or listening .
10 Well , when you have a look in the autoexec you 'll probably find that there 's been a few
11 If you play around with the savings plan spreadsheet you will quickly discover that the earnings ratio is n't dependent on how much you put into the plan every month , only on how long you save for and the interest rate .
12 If we here abandon the time-sequence of his life and anticipate his later work we should also see that an idea or hypothesis was often involved in some of his work , being followed by experiment involving accurate measurement to verify or deny the hypothesis .
13 Well let's forget about that , let's forget about the two thousand odd people who 've said no , let's forget about the fact that there were these accidents in that road , because no we 've got the M forty the A forty four — well the A thirty four as it was — has been relieved of a lot of traffic and from a point of view from the Gipsy Working Party Committee they may well feel that they are even more entitled to go ahead with this site .
14 If you have used any up-to-date dedicated word processor you will soon realise that while you can do all the most vital tasks — including spell checking and outlining — the methods are cumbersome .
15 ‘ Of course you would n't understand that because you have n't been here long enough . ’
16 Yes well of course you can only assume that what he says is correct .
17 It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners .
18 As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it .
19 Now if there 's only three or four or five people in the group you 'll probably find that people who works there their strengths and if there 's anything missing in a group then sometimes in a good group other people come up
20 If you have recently buried a pet you may even find that you do n't want to move at all .
21 Yet while we make this point we must immediately see that these pronouns do not characterize the relationship .
22 The Primitive Methodists , whose work was mostly amongst working people , admitted with a sorrow they could not hide that ‘ the growing worldliness of men needs a faithful and independent ministry ; the increased educational facilities and the advance of science challenge us to put the best talent we can produce into the pulpit ’ .
23 If he continued to get the engaged sound he 'd probably assume that Berowne was having an evening of telephoning and let it go . ’
24 At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples .
25 In any case one may well think that the sheer effort of dotting ‘ i's and crossing ‘ t's was draining .
26 … those countries which I could not visit in my proper person , I have so attentively read about , that as I turn round a globe I can almost fancy that I know the appearance and characters of the portions of the great world itself which lie mapped out under my eye , and observe all that is going forward on its surface .
27 Until almost the last day I could not believe that we were really leaving Abyssinia for good , that we should not be coming back .
28 Because of the changing moon I can now see that she is completely naked .
29 In the event I ca n't say that each of these five composers convinced me that he was a natural for the medium , and the Mozartian connections struck me as sometimes effective , occasionally arch and in one case strained beyond breaking point .
30 What it does is extend the requirements to include methods of selection which should virtually guarantee that the ‘ proper ’ choice is made for each party .
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