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

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1 I have consulted the most celebrated authors on comparative anatomy , but do not find any such structures of those parts described ; and as it is not known to you , I may presume that it has not been before taken notice of .
2 The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned .
3 But if an incident has occurred involving violence or which leads to a soured atmosphere at work , management may consider that it has little option but to take action .
4 The family must demonstrate that it has the capacity to work with its conscious or unconscious feelings of threat from blacks .
5 This insurance arrangement is very rarely used by practitioners , but readers should know that it does exist , and might provide some help to a buyer who is basically raising 100% of the price from the mortgage company .
6 Before opting , the landlord should know that it covers the whole land and buildings within its curtilage , buildings linked internally or by covered walkways , parades , precincts and other complexes divided into separate units ( Sch 6A , para 3(3) and ( 5 ) ) .
7 Airtours might not repeat last year 's extraordinary feats , but its cash pile and cautious management should ensure that it does not lend further credence to the current theory — that this year 's fastest grower is next year 's insolvency .
8 If a bird is defending a territory in order to exploit as efficiently as possible the food resources on it , the bird should ensure that it defends a territory no larger than necessary .
9 Alternatively , any firm which has made a definite decision not to seek authorisation must ensure that it understands what constitutes investment business and , having established that it can refer clients to suitable authorised independent advisers , avoid further involvement like the plague .
10 If he has decided not to read out the query as it was written , he must ensure that it becomes part of the record .
11 We must ensure that it makes proper progress through the House , receives proper scrutiny and is on the statute book before any rude interruptions .
12 If an open fire is to be used , you should see that it has a good fire-guard .
13 If we feel sorry for the dying cat that can not understand what is happening to it , we should remember that it has one enormous advantage over us : it has no fear of death , which is something we humans must all carry with us throughout our long lives .
14 To understand an ulcer and be able to treat it , we must understand that it does not just appear ; something causes it to develop .
15 Hackman and Oldham suggest that to reverse current trends and move towards good job design practice requires that organised labour should make QWL a high-priority item , that managers discover that QWL pays ‘ in coins they value ’ , that government should decide that it requires , or is to encourage , organisations to improve QWL , or that the cultural climate must change .
16 We should hope that it presages a more thorough review of alcohol taxation .
17 We must hope that it ends safely and successfully . ’
18 We can not take any position in this argument ; we must recognize that it exists .
19 The Bank of England reserves the right to decline to accept bids that it judges to be out of line with market conditions even if this should mean that it does not sell all stock on offer .
20 The Minister should realise that it says everything that the Government should put in no financial support for the Devon and Cornwall development company .
21 ‘ I must admit that it went through my mind , though I could scarcely credit it . ’
22 Seeing my disappointment he winked an eye and said , ‘ Well , I must admit that it makes a good story ’ .
23 We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like .
24 As the Daily Express noted : ‘ Much as I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering and illness , I must concede that it has been made with the dead-on professionalism that is characteristic of the other ‘ Carry Ons . ’ ’
25 I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit .
26 To these points I must agree that it appears that the NIH has most reprehensibly sought to exploit the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) crisis to its own ends .
27 One must say that it does so by providing a price sufficient to pay off a debt of sin before God .
28 I must say that it sheds some light on the state of some of the aircraft that I had to fly in then .
29 So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely .
30 Digital technology has introduced ( or perhaps I should say that it has reintroduced , for the first time since the establishment and dominance of printing ) the unstable , or infinitely variable , text .
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