Example sentences of "that they [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenking said he thought they were on the Dean and that they would soon beat over it into deeper water . |
| 2 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 3 | A MediaStar source says : ‘ There was no battle over who should take charge of a merged media operation , simply a decision by clients that they would rather continue with the same team . |
| 4 | So much so that they would rather live in a UK which seems set to have permanent Tory government than an independent Scotland which would almost certainly be Socialist . |
| 5 | It was generally assumed that they would probably prove to be complementary to each other , but what the optimum mix would be was far from clear . |
| 6 | Pray that they would quickly settle into their new life in Nuneaton . |
| 7 | Unprotected in the desert , they would lose so much water by evaporation that they would quickly die of desiccation . |
| 8 | Only Forster and Silk followed , Lawton staying to assist Nell bring up the extra combat kit that they would now recover from the assault boat . |
| 9 | While not explicit , many implied that they would indeed fight to the death for their managing director . |
| 10 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 11 | It was often obvious from the start that they would never lead to anything and this made those who were more settled openly contemptuous . |
| 12 | The tears that came with this knowledge were now true tears of grieving for his father 's death , and the knowledge that they would never communicate with each other . |
| 13 | Although the British offered assurances that they would still work towards freer trade relations as circumstances permitted , the multilateralists in Washington had been compelled to settle for much less than they would have liked . |
| 14 | Informally put , in the case of an oligopolistic market this can be achieved by an agreement which specifies that the punishing firms choose outputs or prices which yield them higher profit than at the collusive allocation , so that they would actually gain in the punishment phase . |
| 15 | But when David Damiani , Fatima Zamzam and her children , Ghassan Kanafani and his family and around 140,000 other Palestinian refugees fled into Lebanon , the Beirut government took comfort — as did the Palestinians themselves — from the hope that they might soon return to their homes . |
| 16 | The danger was that they might even go beyond " their lawful power at the polls " , especially if stirred up by " designing persons " and promises of " social salvation " , and they might attempt to produce change through " revolutionary action " . |
| 17 | The qualifying condition , however , in this particular instance , was that Mrs Beattie and Mrs Friar could hardly be classed as neighbours and even the most cock-eyed optimist would never even hope that they might even begin to be pleasant to each other . |
| 18 | Sage is currently re-vamping the online help system to make it context sensitive , and I 'm hoping that they 'll also look at idiot proofing and the application of the Windows interface . |
| 19 | Most people have absorbed the idea that there is some sort of accountability at the end of life and that they may well need to be preparing to ‘ meet their maker ’ . |
| 20 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 21 | Some countries choose to import food items that they could easily grow for themselves because they find it commercially advantageous to grow industrial raw materials for export and to import the food they need , which tends to be less costly relative to their exports . |
| 22 | Of course the increasing population in some countries is harming the progress that they could otherwise make on development issues . |
| 23 | Some farmers were told that they could either settle at once for 60 per cent of what was due to them , or wait three years to fight for the full amount . |
| 24 | A magazine with the vision to run these two very different pieces in the same issue , in the knowledge that they could both appeal to the same reader , deserves applause . |
| 25 | The companies found this a major block to their activities and eventually pulled out from the area : ‘ The companies never officially admitted that they were leaving , just sort of let their prospecting licences lapse … the reason they departed was because they could n't see any way that they could effectively operate with such total opposition . |
| 26 | Some teachers were aware that they could now contribute to decision-making but still saw the head as deciding all the issues . |
| 27 | ‘ I wept on the night the sidh were last seen at Tara , ’ said Dierdriu , ‘ for I knew that they could only sing for one of you , and that there could only be one ruler . |
| 28 | One reason was for communications , but another reason that was rather intriguing to scientists was that they could actually look at stars and look at the space between the stars and use a different region of the spectrum , in particular the radio region . |
| 29 | At the same time , Nos. 1E , 2E and 3E , were taken out of service for a short time , to receive a small modification — they were fitted with spare sets of track brake equipment , so that they could subsequently work to the Crystal Palace . |
| 30 | As works or good deeds played absolutely no part in this process , the elect were assured that they could never fall from grace , and derived great comfort from this ‘ assurance ’ . |