Example sentences of "[adj] [that] she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a public display of Cabinet loyalty , Douglas Hurd , Foreign Secretary , and John Major , Chancellor of the Exchequer , signed Mrs Thatcher 's nomination papers and the Prime Minister again made clear that she would be prepared to fight through three ballots if necessary . |
| 2 | Gradually she got used to thinking of Angel as Corrie , but it soon became clear that she would never be able to claim her as her own . |
| 3 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
| 4 | But it became clear that she would soon have to go out in the rain and get a bus to their sister convent . |
| 5 | Hillary Clinton has made it clear that she would have her own part to play after husband Bill was swept to power . |
| 6 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It soon became clear that she might have got the date and the king wrong , that she had n't seen the guinea for years , and so forth . |
| 9 | Only after the truce of 1686 with the Poles was it clear that she might well be the force of the future in eastern Europe . |
| 10 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 11 | Some of her nails were still silver , Lee noticed , and some were so clear that she could see the blood through them . |
| 12 | Yet the Queen Mum has made it quite clear that she will decide for herself . |
| 13 | It is clear that she will never marry and have children , follow a career enjoy the leisure interests of her own age group or otherwise enjoy the quality of life which so many take for granted . |
| 14 | We are not given access to her private emotional struggles , but we are clear that she can not reject social values . |
| 15 | Again Beth hesitated , thinking it wrong that she should use this lovely girl in order to lessen her own burden . |
| 16 | Er I thought that it was wrong that she should , as everybody knows . |
| 17 | And it is doubtful that she will feel the need to consult a fortune teller as to her husband 's ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ days as did Nancy Reagan . |
| 18 | For the remainder of her half-hour set , the audience was treated to vintage Aurora Blake — in fact , it was doubtful that she 'd ever put on a more powerful show in any of the venues she 'd performed in all over the world . |
| 19 | Gazzer had been afraid that she would say something like : ‘ Well , you need n't have bothered ! ’ or ‘ You and whose army ! ’ |
| 20 | When she had made the rounds of the many churches in Lynne , she was ‘ urged in her soul to go and visit certain places for ghostly health ’ , and her husband , either from kindness , or afraid that she would get into trouble , accompanied her . |
| 21 | " The sepoys are very quiet , " the Collector called to Harry conversationally to stop him weeping , because now Lucy was starting and he was afraid that she would spoil the powder by dropping tears into the flask . |
| 22 | Somehow she was afraid that she would discover things she was better not knowing . |
| 23 | He hated himself for these demeaning fantasies , and was reasonably afraid that she might suspect he nourished them . |
| 24 | Jack Butler closed the door , turned and leant against it , as if afraid that she might suddenly return with more horrors . |
| 25 | The first was that she was afraid that she might have an attack while pregnant and would cause some harm either to herself or to the unborn child . |
| 26 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 27 | He saluted briefly and opened the door , afraid that she might be about to cry . |
| 28 | " Je dois aller , " said Clara , losing grammar in urgency , beginning to be afraid that she might be late . |
| 29 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 30 | All she felt was a kind of blankness ; she was now so afraid that she 'd become detached , a spectator , not even thinking any more about escape . |