Example sentences of "[adv] that [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 2 | Both the State and the family would like to avoid this happening , and a fiscal package is being put together that would enable the huge death duties owing to be paid off partly in kind . |
| 3 | He says one problem is that the new scheme for support from the DOT involves putting packages together that must cost at least £2 million and it 's quite hard to find a package of cycle-ways that actually cost that much ! |
| 4 | We have something together that can crash barriers , go beyond the boundaries you must have accepted in your tawdry affair with Jones , since I suspect that he 's capable of only the most limited kind of passion . ’ |
| 5 | " She did n't really love him , " Sarah shouted aloud in the empty house , and blushed as if there were a part of Enid lurking somewhere that could overhear her . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt I 'd hit that wall with my playing , ’ he explains , ‘ and searched all over Britain to try and find somewhere that could help , but there were no schools or colleges operating such courses . |
| 7 | The club 's officers and committee are well away that could happen if Middlesbrough lost its championship and Sunday matches , for there is no other Yorkshire venue in the region . |
| 8 | I hope that the Minister of State will provide information tonight that will assure the House that something positive will be done . |
| 9 | THE mother of a 16-year-old girl murdered 11 years ago sought a High Court ruling yesterday that would let her bring a civil damages action against two men she alleges were responsible . |
| 10 | Clearly if , if the fines were more that would help , but I do think now because of the consciousness of the general public and because of the involvement of the media in , in the environment , er that firms are not keen and the third parties , whoever they may be , are not keen to be fined in court for pollution , because public opinion is such that it 's very much disapproved of . |
| 11 | Officials think now that may have been a mistake . |
| 12 | What is more , we can not even see the processes going on today that might lead to such extinctions . |
| 13 | BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season . |
| 14 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 15 | An aide to Mr Yeltsin said a draft of a new constitution prepared on behalf of the president would be presented to Congress today that would put the emergency powers he was granted last autumn on a permanent basis . |
| 16 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 17 | There were no causes operating in the world today that could have such devastating results . |
| 18 | There are undoubtedly items of software in use today that could produce negative sums of squares and many others giving answers that are undetectably wrong . |
| 19 | The Minister said nothing today that will reassure the farming community . |
| 20 | Well yeah th well that used to turn green , tell you that now . |
| 21 | And I said to Norman have you got anything in here that would cover it up ? |
| 22 | Surely , oh surely , there would be something here that would rescue Nuadu and the other poor creatures … |
| 23 | So far there is little here that would run counter to what would be considered orthodox Marxist views . |
| 24 | Was there something here that would help them ? |
| 25 | And er it was , it was acceptable by our members in general , that we were achieving the aims and objective of the basis of the whole incentive scheme you know , notwithstanding a lot of other things that was accompanied by , because we could we could then say to the management on most occasions , well we could do with something here that would help health and safety . |
| 26 | I think it 's fair to say , that we do not all matters , and I hope that nobody 's here that would appreciate that the audit role is an independent role . |
| 27 | I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl . |
| 28 | Presentation techniques , a few things here that might help you in terms of making it interesting as it were and the actual delivery of your training your posture , keep your posture erect , but relaxed I do n't really know what that means but er er stand up . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw a book here that might interest you , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Two reforms are singled out here that will help begin the process of reshaping the welfare state to fulfil both of these objectives . |