Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A guide to procedure should be produced so that everyone would have an outline of a desirable order of events and to ensure proper standards of fairness and impartiality . |
| 2 | To cater for pupils of different ability , however , and to ensure that everyone could gain a certificate , Dunning endorsed Munn 's proposal for three syllabuses of different levels of difficulty , and recommended that certificates should be awarded at three corresponding levels , covering the entire ability range . |
| 3 | Magical , mystical , fascinating and colourful , the culture and way of life in the Orient is so very different from our own that everyone should pay a visit at least once during their lifetime . |
| 4 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |
| 5 | The aim is that there should be something for everybody in all parts of the country and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons . ’ |
| 6 | There must be no ‘ sacred cows ’ an I hope all of you will assist and will recognise that everyone can make a contribution . |
| 7 | She was consoled in the knowledge that no-one would believe a girl next door like her any more anyway . |
| 8 | Stepping carefully over the gutter , Gonzalo remarked that I ought to wear a coat like he did . |
| 9 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 10 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought that I might do an article to celebrate it ; describe the problems they face , and their success in tackling them . ’ |
| 12 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 14 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 15 | ‘ It did n't occur to you that I might have a lot on my mind ? |
| 16 | I feel that I might prove a hindrance rather than a help . ’ |
| 17 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 18 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 19 | ‘ Thinking I would stretch the rules to suit myself is very different from thinking I would be so consumed by greed that I would commit a felony . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ My imagination is n't so impoverished that I would invent a name like Jones , ’ she came back . |
| 21 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
| 22 | I decided that I would keep an eye on Tom after that . |
| 23 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 24 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 25 | So much of modern astrophysics has sprung from the seeds of radio astronomy that I would recommend a session with this book for anyone currently involved in astronomy research . |
| 26 | We expected Michael Foot , Roy Jenkins and Tony Wedgwood Benn to stand , but when Denis Healey and Tony Crosland also announced they were candidates , my team calculated that I would lose a number of votes to them , for the three of us were close in our thinking and attitudes . |
| 27 | I thought that I would have a go at getting a pilot 's course , which I did — and was soon sharply put in my place . |
| 28 | I 'd like a piana from you for Christmas or if you can not get me that I would like a bike . |
| 29 | and he did decide that I would like a cup of tea |
| 30 | I told them that I would like an audience with Andropov because I had something very important to discuss with him . |