Example sentences of "[art] [adj] that [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yen 's rise could help trim the trade surplus in the long run as it could make U.S. exporters more competitive , although in the short-term that could help lift the amount of exports in dollar terms from Japan . |
| 2 | Choose the largest that will fit . |
| 3 | Luke 's features seemed to reshape themselves momentarily , his expression become one of savage anger , and he had taken the first step of the few that would bring him round the desk to her before she saw him drag control back to himself . |
| 4 | he 's gone to pay the extra that will do I mean if I think I 've I 've but are you ? |
| 5 | We thought the worst that would happen would be a national partition with Jews and Arabs still living in their own homes . |
| 6 | Criminally negligent directors in the UK are not sent to prison as in other countries — the worst that can happen is a fine — and even that can be insured against and paid by the company . |
| 7 | Ask yourself ‘ what is the worst that can happen ? ’ in any given situation . |
| 8 | What is the worst that can happen if you do not achieve it ? |
| 9 | I shall sit here and wait and sweat it out and look the facts in the face , trying to anticipate the worst that can happen . |
| 10 | The paradoxes put forward Tolkien 's theses that determination should survive the worst that can happen , that a stout pretence is more valuable than sincere despair . |
| 11 | That way the worst that can happen is you will miss a turn . |
| 12 | What 's the worst that can happen ? |
| 13 | The worst that can happen is that its domain of applicability becomes circumscribed . |
| 14 | Very little mess occurs , about the worst that can happen is that the jet gets clogged causing the ink drops to get oversized or the reservoir is removed without being capped . |
| 15 | ‘ The worst that can happen … ’ she took a deep breath , hoping that this was the right thing to say ‘ … is that the baby has to be delivered over the next few days . ’ |
| 16 | What is the worst that can happen ? ’ |
| 17 | If you make an error in a project powered from a PP3 size 9 volt battery , about the worst that will happen is that one or two semiconductors will be destroyed . |
| 18 | What was the worst that could happen ? |
| 19 | He tried to think of the worst that could happen . |
| 20 | But here , if you were caught preparing an escape , the worst that could happen to you was fourteen days solitary confinement with books and writing materials , and it was often a pleasant change to spend a fortnight by yourself after months of compulsory association . |
| 21 | The worst that could happen is for someone to suggest a ‘ magic ’ solution . |
| 22 | I suppose I used to think the worst that could happen was that I got killed . |
| 23 | Negotiating a few cairns , falling into a stream or two , arid avoiding the tempting green sheep-track to the left that would lead you straight into a bog , you followed the pilgrims ' way ever downwards . |
| 24 | Aldercine Hodson recently took up the challenge of organising a ‘ Fun Sports Afternoon ’ for the disabled that would cater especially for those handicapped people who have athletic inclinations but not necessarily the strength to cope with competition at County , Regional or National level . |
| 25 | is what Thursday , Thursday , yeah , at the worse that will get there Monday okay , they 'll try and put it on risk for , or get something moving on that |
| 26 | Lighting is only necessary for the viewer and the plants , so select the dimmest that will suffice . |
| 27 | Irigaray 's analyses of the use of pronouns by hysterics and obsessives ( 1966:29–31 , 1967:55–68 ) reveal that whereas obsessives are unable to say ‘ me ’ because they are caught in a specular image of themselves in which there is no object , only an undifferentiated self ( Irigaray 's ‘ on ’ ) , hysterics are unable to say ‘ I ’ because they are unable to complete the trajectory through the other that would allow them access to full subjectivity . |
| 28 | About ten minutes after taking a tab of E , the drug will produce a high that can last for hours . |
| 29 | Its " tough scenario " , required to reach the 35 per cent target , would include the following measures : the insulation of houses to a standard that would reduce heating requirements by 85 per cent and air conditioning by 45 per cent ; the introduction of energy-efficient lighting for commercial buildings , to cut consumption by 60 per cent ; a requirement that new car engines be designed to achieve an average of 58 miles per gallon ; a reduction in coal-fired power stations , with compensatory increases in natural gas and nuclear generating capacity ; and the planting of large areas of forest , which would act as a " sink " for excess carbon dioxide . |
| 30 | And soon , so the official who interviewed me said , it would be a passport of the full community ; it would be a key that could unlock the gates of Paris , Rome , of London , even . |