Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No one could or should pretend that nursing in the future will resemble nursing in the past .
2 There can be no confidence that unions , existing to serve a sectional interest , will or can suppress that interest in order to support the wider interest , whether at company or national level .
3 Research work also continues on serotonin secretion by the brain and on drugs that may affect that process .
4 Immediately , he began trying to predict Simon 's responses , to work out ways of soothing him , of flattering him , of making him laugh , anything that might defuse that aggression or at least make sure that Simon directed it at someone else .
5 On a miles per scream basis , there are lots of competent cars at a fraction of the Bentley 's price that could go that distance before getting too strident , and a Mercedes S-class would still only be whispering the odd complaint after 1200 miles .
6 You remember that man that used to keep that furniture shop by Cockney ?
7 Of course , two parties may announce before an election that they are prepared to go into coalition with each other but they can not guarantee the election result that would make that coalition possible .
8 Well if this is the case then you do n't see that any recommendations in Goodey would stop that kind of thing happening and if you do n't see that , what recommendations would you make to the Committee that Goodey should put any report that would stop that kind of thing happening .
9 The act makes it unlawful for an employer to ‘ limit , segregate or classify an employee in any way that would deprive that employee of job opportunities or adversely affect employment status because of their age . ’
10 I am not willing to sign any paper that would release that land to anybody . ’
11 Do you have an alternative to offer that would er , that would sustain that fabric ?
12 The banks want legislation that would provide that power .
13 Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine .
14 My equipment can be set at a frequency to emit sound waves that will obviate that effect .
15 The fact that an enzyme will catalyse a reaction for one particular substrate , but not for another very similar one , depends on its surface having precisely the shape that will fit that substrate and no other .
16 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
17 Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators .
18 And there is not a feeling that I can have , whether it 's produced from my emotion , or whether it comes from hell itself , there is not a feeling that can come my way , there is not a lie of the devil that can alter that truth !
19 I 'm the one that can answer that prayer .
20 You are the one that can answer that prayer .
21 It is the only thing that can guarantee that romance will endure .
22 Representation could be more truthful , more profound than that , and ought to incorporate that feeling which had been naively symbolised by the halo in early primitive Christian painting .
23 There was nothing to check in the front parlour ; hardly anything to say goodbye to , for the room was empty of furniture and must remain that way until the shops would once again have chairs and sofas and rugs and curtains to sell .
24 It is difficult and must remain that way because history has left us with this difficulty .
25 Further , and hence We now have the embarrassing impossibility of a negative sum of squares and must conclude that method ( b ) is unsatisfactory for computer use even though it is the more practicable for hand calculation .
26 He must be a fluent and persuasive speaker , if possible with an attractive personal appearance , and must understand that liberality in entertainment and general style of life could be an important help in negotiation .
27 They 're lightly built , for a start , and the all-over matt lacquer looks good and should stay that way .
28 Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 's Peer Prince ( 3.10 ) has already won twice this season and could make that advantage tell over Josh Gifford 's Zamil .
29 It already supplies Fokker with fuselages for Fokker 's small jet and could make that product its own by buying the Dutch company for less than $1 billion .
30 Here was a creative writer of great historical importance in vernacular Italian , as also in neo-Latin ; one who played a crucial role in the promulgating of manuscripts of lost classical texts which embodied the ancient culture and could propagate that culture anew in his own time ; whose creative writing variously reflected the new access to ancient literature ; and whose overall achievement helped to ensure that classical scholarship , in its work of reclaiming the ancient world , became not merely a prestigious activity , but a central and formative activity in contemporary culture as a whole .
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