Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , restrictions were placed upon these to ensure that they would be developed and not simply held by speculators . |
| 2 | Has not the Labour-controlled local authority frequently made proposals for reorganisations , knowing that they would be rejected because they were highly partisan ? |
| 3 | Multinational chemical companies complained that many chemicals imported into Hong Kong were exported again ; manufacturers protested that they would be penalised , even if they disposed of their chemicals responsibly . |
| 4 | Through such activities , where the teacher is a fellow learner , the pupils have developed the confidence to advance their provisional , partially formed ideas in the knowledge that they would be accepted and built on . |
| 5 | Managers in Surrey sent letters to all their ambulance workers threatening to use outside contractors to carry out non-emergency work and refused to guarantee that they would be withdrawn once deployed . |
| 6 | Using radio broadcasts and posters , they had warned the locals that they would be shot if they turned out to vote . |
| 7 | If there were general laws governing the history of life , it was assumed that they would be revealed by the fossil record . |
| 8 | Behind Lord Denning 's concern to protect these institutions ' reputation was the fear that they would be discovered to be other than how they try to protect themselves , and that their integrity would be compromised . |
| 9 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 10 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 11 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 12 | It was said that the main fear of many army officers who were posted to India was that they would be eaten by a tiger . |
| 13 | Where floor joists are built into the part wall , they would have to be cut off so that they would be supported by the new well , completely free from the party wall . |
| 14 | That when it did , she believed that they would be obliterated totally , like midges slapped into nothingness by a giant . |
| 15 | Well the proposals that are made in the in the Committees er report for funding erm seem to us acceptable with the exception of the comment we have already made erm i acceptable in the sense that they would be borne by erm all pension funds in proportion to their the size of their assets and in relation to the size of the er compensation has to be paid . |
| 16 | He tried to pull Caspar with him so that they would be hidden by a tree , but Caspar hung back barking . |
| 17 | When the King withdrew , Jeffreys , the Lord Chancellor , told the bishops that they would be prosecuted in the King 's Bench and asked them to enter into recognisances to appear in court . |
| 18 | He had not expected that they would be worshipped like gods , but on a world where technological ability excited only minimal interest , all of them were at a considerable disadvantage until they were able to prove themselves against local standards of performance . |
| 19 | Papers ( 1834 ) xxvi 9 , that they would in future allow a person refused admission to appeal to the judges and that they would be bound by their decision : see Holdsworth 's History of English Law , vol . |
| 20 | The next day he called a halt to the anti-Suchinda rallies , but warned that they would be resumed if the government failed to implement the constitutional changes . |
| 21 | It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving . |
| 22 | It may be that as individuals learn and pray that they would be led to greater personal giving . |
| 23 | He agreed the figures were wrong and that they would be amended . |
| 24 | To return to my burglary , it became possible to make alternative arrangements : to let family members know and to replace the presents with other things made available by other people or by just acknowledging that they would be replaced when the insurance money came through ! |
| 25 | Franco and his henchmen had undoubtedly allowed the monarchists to stand in the hope that they would be discredited by defeat . |
| 26 | Howard re-iterated his demands for the Nez Perce to settle at Lapwai , but said that they would be given hunting and fishing passes for the Imnaha valley . |
| 27 | Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on March 26 at the ceremony to swear in the new Council of Ministers in which he acknowledged that the forthcoming period would be a difficult one for the new ministers ; he said that they would be given between four and six months to demonstrate whether or not they were capable of doing their job properly . |
| 28 | In February 1989 the proposed new terms and conditions were outlined by letter to staff and , after subsequent fruitless negotiations with the unions , in April 1989 a notice was sent informing the employees that the changes would be discussed with them , that they would be given a reasonable time to consider the new contracts and that they would be dismissed if they did not accept them . |
| 29 | Willmott ( 1966 ) chose to use young Australians and New Zealanders in his research into the activities of adolescent boys , on the assumption that they would be seen by the boys as neutral as far as class and social background were concerned . |
| 30 | However popular such finely decorated silver plates may have been among the wealthy Britons , it is highly unlikely that they would be seen by the working potters , who would have had to rely on a more popular source for their repertoire . |