Example sentences of "[vb infin] [that] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little did we know that it would result in one of the most amazing periods of any of our lives — including David 's I 'm sure . |
| 2 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 3 | They should know that it will change nothing . |
| 4 | How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ? |
| 5 | We must recognise that it will have to be the consumer who pays , and it is up to animal welfare organisations such as the RSPCA to ensure that the increased price for food will be seen to be acceptable because of an improvement both in animal welfare and environmental protection . |
| 6 | Its main power over the economy lies in its control of the central bank , but Mr Yeltsin has made the bank promise that it will issue only a quarter as much credit in the second three months of the year as it did in the first . |
| 7 | Sample sizes can not be decided independently of acceptable error since sampling can not guarantee that it will provide the true population value . |
| 8 | I do not consider that it would help towards the solution of your Lordships ' present problem for me to discuss further the points which arose in Morris ( including the question whether it really is an example of theft ) or in the many other cases on section 1(1) which have occupied the anxious attention of the courts and the academic writers . |
| 9 | I 've already said this morning that the District Council does not consider that it can accommodate any further dwellings within the Southern Ryedale area without adversely affecting the character of the settlements that are already there , or compromising greenbelt objectives , erm , so therefore to meet the Greater York total , the District Council considers it essential that there is a new settlement to take that amount of housing that can not be accommodated within the Southern Ryedale area . |
| 10 | To achieve the status of ‘ Preferred Supplier , ’ a company must demonstrate that it can provide products and services which are uniform , consistently meet requirements and show an on-going commitment to quality . |
| 11 | Though Eliot did not like Lindsay 's work , he did think that it might have paved the way for better things . |
| 12 | But do you think that it would do that ? |
| 13 | Certainly it would be very difficult to introduce any statistical rational erm to the desegregation of Greater York to its district components , bearing in mind the small populations er in some of the Greater York er districts , we think that the general level of detail erm in the structure plan is appropriate , and we think to go down to any finer detail would be an inappropriate to a structure plan , and thirdly I think on that issue , er we would think that it would prejudice erm the work that District Council would want to do erm in their er local plans . |
| 14 | You might think that it would have been easy enough to reconstruct the evolutionary pathway , but it was n't . |
| 15 | Do you think that it will work ? ’ |
| 16 | Jeffrey : I do n't think that it will halt the development of a sense of gay community and , in a way , it makes it more essential that there is a gay community . |
| 17 | Also , do n't think that it will put you into a trance or make you say or do stupid things . |
| 18 | Rather than forcing the diet on him , you should explain that it might help and ask if he would like to try it . |
| 19 | He maintained that Latin America had already been drawn into the capitalist system in a dependent role , and that the activities of imperialism would ensure that it would retain this colonial status . |
| 20 | Clerical Medical 's fund will have to be wound up at the end of five years , which will ensure that it will have to pay CGT in full on whatever has been made . |
| 21 | If the bias we have detected in broadcasting was not obvious to media specialists we can hardly expect that it would have been obvious to the general public . |
| 22 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 23 | It is submitted , therefore , that s3 is capable of applying to clauses which define duties , at least where the clause defines the duties in a way contrary to what a reasonable person would expect in the absence of the term in question , and the drafter should assume that it will apply to all clauses which exclude or limit liability for breach of contract , or allow a party to alter the nature of performance ( see also the attitude of Bridge LJ to clauses seeking to avoid liability for misrepresentation in Cremdean Properties Ltd v Nash ( 1977 ) 244 EG 547 , examined in Chapter 8,2 ) . |
| 24 | A moment 's reflection will show that it would make private members more independent . |
| 25 | That these implications of Moore 's methodology seem strange might only show that it can guide us to unexpected ethical truths . |
| 26 | A third party may claim that it can participate in a treaty either fully , by becoming a party , or partially , by becoming bound by certain sections . |
| 27 | Did he really believe that it would vote for the introduction of industrial democracy in the Bullock Report 's dubious prescription for it ? |
| 28 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 29 | He could n't believe that it would have wandered far when it had n't even been outside the stable for such a long time . |
| 30 | Mr Deputy Speaker , er i you will have observed that the two front benches have spoken at incredible length and you have had to reprimand them , or certainly the opposition for er going away from the subject matter and do you not er believe that it would have been far better to allow some back benchers to get . |