Example sentences of "that it [vb mod] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that it would be at all necessary , she reassured herself as she felt a sudden burst of fright . |
| 2 | With less than an hour of daylight remaining , he carried a flashlight — not that it would be of much help with the rain cascading down as if the Maya Rain God had corralled every raincloud in Central America and pulled the plugs out . |
| 3 | A post in Italy , the nature of which I never fully learnt , save that it would be of sufficient importance to take me out of uniform if I were in it , fell through with Italy 's declaration of war . |
| 4 | But she caught sight of her watch and realized that it would be half-past three in the morning in New York . |
| 5 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 6 | I hope you will agree with me , therefore , that it would be in all our best interests to let the police into our confidence on this one . |
| 7 | Thus someone buying coal from the National Coal Board does have the benefit of the implied condition that it shall be of merchantable quality . |
| 8 | It is an additional requirement of the religion , that it shall be in some logical form which can be accepted by all kinds of people , from the academically minded who need to be satisfied with its innate sound reasoning , to those who are prepared to let faith take over where the tedium of logical study is not wanted or not within their individual capacities to undertake . |
| 9 | Yes and one can imagine that it might be like that , but of course the women that we meet at university are those who have become scientists very often . |
| 10 | You may need to do a complete revision of an existing pedagogical grammar , so that it may be of greater use for the language learning programmes of your colleagues . |
| 11 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 12 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 13 | There is then not only a relative gap to be filled , in these new terms , but also , from the quality of some of the work on the arts carried out from other positions , a sense of challenge : indeed a sense that it may be above all in this still major area that the qualities of the kinds of thinking represented by the contemporary convergence stand most to be tested . |
| 14 | And the suggestion was that it should be at nine thirty , and not ten thirty . |
| 15 | What will happen after the E.D.C. has the property has never been discussed but you can be assured that it will be for recreational . |
| 16 | What will happen after the E.D.C. has the property has never been discussed but you can be assured that it will be for recreational . |
| 17 | One of the aims of the new housing legislation is to increase the amount of rented accommodation available , but as this is dependent on private sector financing it is feared that it will be of greater benefit to the better-off section of the community . |
| 18 | The flysheet suggests that it will be of particular interest to the neuropsychologist , the neurophysiologist , the linguist and thoughtful musicians . |
| 19 | So if the horse is lucky enough to get a companion at a later date , its owner will be surprised that the horse will appear much happier , and that it will be in better health and condition . |
| 20 | Of course we hope you never have to make a claim — but if you do , rest assured that it will be in good hands . |
| 21 | Mercifully the issue of censorship in the UK is not at present the matter of life and death that it can be in other countries , yet various instances of censorship in recent years ( even in the library field ) have illustrated how inflammatory the question of censorship can be . |
| 22 | ( Among the virtues of reparation are that it could be of great value in assisting the ‘ reintegration ’ of offenders , as we discuss shortly . ) |
| 23 | You will tell him that it must be in secret and that it is very , very important . |