Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my enquiry was met with the response that I should not have entered the competition if I was not prepared to travel etc . |
| 2 | The nearest description of the text that I can manage is that it is kindly didactic . |
| 3 | Of course not all teachers will recognize themselves , and probably no one person 's experience will match point for point with the sketch that I shall give . |
| 4 | I welcome the commitment that has been shown by the head of the governing body , but I can not give any hint of the decision that I will be taking by the end of February . |
| 5 | ‘ I tell you , ’ she continued , ‘ the bit that I could never figure out was that ablark , araan , aroon refrain . |
| 6 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |
| 7 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 8 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 9 | Dear Guitarist I am writing this letter in the hope that I may save a lot of Gibson-lovers grief with their pickups . |
| 10 | The Austrian officials were quite another matter ; middle-aged , self-confident , well dressed and courteous , they enquired how long I intended to stay , glanced in the boot , and waved me on with the hope that I would enjoy my stay . |
| 11 | My parents are dead now , and I moved away from our village to quite a big town in the hope that I would make friends . |
| 12 | Next morning over breakfast I decide to go back into Þingeyri to catch a plane back to Ísafjöđ3ur in the hope that I can get a boat or bus from there . |
| 13 | The only answer was to run — in the hope that I can escape being apprehended while I find out what 's happening to the project I was working on . |
| 14 | I need employment to live , and in the hope that I can save my passage home again . |
| 15 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 16 | I decided to get a bit of height and do a gentle dive with power off and I made a rather ham-fisted upward climb in the hope that I could jolt the wheel down . |
| 17 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 18 | The monitor that I would pick if money was n't a consideration was the Sampo Alpha Scan — a superior monitor for a reasonable price . |
| 19 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 20 | ‘ It is part of the expectation of the President that I should be available to represent the Church , so I have been to Strasbourg to the European Parliament and also on visits to the churches in Nigeria and Kenya . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's probably just as well for all concerned at the club that I should hang my boots up for a while . |
| 22 | Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going . |
| 23 | ‘ The fear that I could be had begun to haunt my days and keep me awake at nights , and , although I knew Simon was the wrong person to take into my confidence , he was familiar and he was there . |
| 24 | The mirror reflects the fear that I can not be fully myself while my mother 's image is superimposed on mine . |
| 25 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 26 | Another trick that I have learnt is for increasing the likelihood that I will actually get down to a job which is becoming urgent but which I do n't want to do . |
| 27 | The anxiety that I will be caught out on the hustings by a clever swine in a corduroy jacket asking ‘ What is the current rate of child benefit ? ’ is one which is shared by all those rash enough to offer themselves for election . |
| 28 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 29 | All of the work that I shall discuss suggests that spillovers are important in many sectors , but my view is that it is very easy to exaggerate their size . |
| 30 | I expressed my gratitude , but explained to the Queen that I must ask leave to go away and see if I could form an administration . |