Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The garment is so peculiar that we might dismiss it as a quirk of the rhyton carver 's imagination , but for the fact that it features again on a seal impression from Agia Triadha , where the rhyton also originated . |
| 2 | As for NHS trusts , we have made it clear that we will expect them , as well as the directly managed units within the NHS , to report annually on what they have done . |
| 3 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 4 | It is for someone to support the person whilst they try to unravel their thoughts in such a way that it becomes clear that they can say anything , no matter how bizarre or odd it sounds , because that will be the way they sort out their feelings in order to cope with them . |
| 5 | Asquith then made it clear that he would do nothing to assist the Conservatives . |
| 6 | He tried to persuade editors of journals to back the government , but made clear that he would prosecute them if they refused . |
| 7 | Mr Buchan is also a conoisseur of socialist folk-singing : he made it clear that he would find it hard to set the policy review to traditional music : ‘ I am a primeval socialist . ’ |
| 8 | And , although she never actually put it into words she had made it perfectly clear that she would put him out of business if he did n't agree to her terms . |
| 9 | Hillary Clinton has made it clear that she would have her own part to play after husband Bill was swept to power . |
| 10 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 11 | On page one o eight paragraph two point two er , the society proposals of the er , in accordance with the objectives we 've taken out overall , it wants to be clear that it must mean it 's in total , the objectives . |
| 12 | Now , if a vast majority likes to base its fashion garmentry on what the American road worker is wearing this year , it seems only sensible that it should base its fashion vehicle on what he is driving . |
| 13 | She was so horribly sensible that it could drive you , as Maggie knew it was now driving Phoebe , into complete tantrums and screaming , because Rachel would not share that part of the argument . |
| 14 | We could borrow one easily enough from a lifting vessel or salvage tug but the chances are high that he 'd know nothing about explosives . |
| 15 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 16 | The society of Raasay was so self-contained that he could hold it in his palm and turn it this way and that . |
| 17 | ‘ As your agent , I should advise you against it — my cut will be so minute that I 'll lose it through a hole in my pocket . |
| 18 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 19 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 20 | I 'll be afraid that they can see my tummy . |
| 21 | It is tempting to delve further into the subject ; but I am afraid that it would take me far outside my main theme , and so , reluctantly , we must leave matters there . |
| 22 | I prefer to think things through and find a logical reason for them , and reason tells me that you 're hiding what information you have from the police because you 're afraid that it will ruin your scoop . |
| 23 | Gazzer had been afraid that she would say something like : ‘ Well , you need n't have bothered ! ’ or ‘ You and whose army ! ’ |
| 24 | He hated himself for these demeaning fantasies , and was reasonably afraid that she might suspect he nourished them . |
| 25 | On the arrival day he considered going to meet Maggie in Carrick but he was afraid that he might miss her and decided to go to Boyle . |
| 26 | When neighbours tried to visit , she had Jennifer send them away , and when they said Mr Drew might be coming down to call on her , she became very agitated because the last thing she wanted was a turncoat parson at her deathbed , and she was so afraid that he might confiscate her silver Madonna that she had Jennifer take it from her neck and put round her own . |
| 27 | He made a sort of feeble pretence of being afraid that he might lose his head . |
| 28 | ‘ Afraid that he would do something … well , something like he did do last week . ’ |
| 29 | I was afraid that he would say what a pair |
| 30 | She turned away , making a great show of looking round the hallway , afraid that he would read what she was feeling from her expression . |