Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 2 | There is no longer any dichotomy of truth and lies that he can manipulate from midway between the audience and the other characters . |
| 3 | The outside world talks of a war crimes tribunal but nobody supposes that anything will come of that . |
| 4 | The argument from analogy supposes that you can construct from your own case a concept of pains which can be felt by others rather than by you . |
| 5 | Then we decided during one of my hospital visits that we should try again . |
| 6 | A later law dealing with landless newcomers , specifies that they should receive half the property , and not two-thirds . |
| 7 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 8 | ‘ Because she was premature , as they were pulling at this thing I was thinking , ‘ Do n't touch … ’ , and one worries that something might go wrong , and then there 's this tremendous sense of relief , and elation and exhaustion . |
| 9 | When you comfort her , she clings to you , because she worries that you will disappear again . |
| 10 | His son has gone off to London , and he worries that he may lose touch with him . |
| 11 | We obviously ca n't afford to spend all our time to put demo bands in , but we do offer special rates for demo bands that they can afford . ’ |
| 12 | If he just wants that he can have it . |
| 13 | A 1987 report of the Agricultural Economic Development Committee concludes that there will have to be relatively rapid reductions in the number of people employed in agriculture , and that therefore farmers will need to develop new rural enterprises which will provide new employment , while at the same time meeting the demands of the public for greater access , recreation and conservation . |
| 14 | Upon reviewing all the comment 's replies to A , it concludes that it can get at least 10 ( hypothetical ) ‘ points ’ with A . |
| 15 | Left alone , Edmund is rather amused by the situation : Rather like Iago , in a soliloquy at a similar stage of the action ( Othello , V.i.11–22 ) , Edmund concludes that he will win anyway . |
| 16 | First , he holds that we should recognize that valuable things may be organic unities ; second , he recommends a method of isolation . |
| 17 | She thinks that we may have sent her too many book tokens , ‘ but ca n't check . |
| 18 | The right hon. Member for Shoreham ( Sir R. Luce ) thinks that we should change the standard spending assessments . |
| 19 | He also thinks that we must develop a culture that demands certain standards from all teachers and accords high status to the few who choose to develop their teaching skills further . |
| 20 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 21 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 22 | Tim Whittome thinks that they will help to make matters a bit easier . |
| 23 | " My mother thinks that I might fall in love . " |
| 24 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
| 25 | He thinks that I could do better than just a clerical job . |
| 26 | But evidence really amounts to no more than expression of the opinion by a particular practitioner of what he thinks that he would have done if he had been paid hypothetically without the benefit of hindsight the position of the defendant , with a little while the evidence of the witness is due , what in the matter of law the solicitor 's duty was in the particular circumstances of the case , I should have thought , being a solicitor the very question which the functions , to decide . |
| 27 | Anyone who thinks that he can improve on the commitment and effort of British Coal managers reveals how little he knows about the coal industry and coal mining . |
| 28 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 29 | This gentleman thinks that he can bring up a child |
| 30 | I do not know whether he does not understand the measure or whether he thinks that he can discredit the idea by associating it with the poll tax . |