Example sentences of "[that] they [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 2 | The bond was so strong that they would feel her presence all their lives . |
| 3 | Their new transnational roles would naturally increase the likelihood that they would identify their interests with the global capitalist system , objectively if not subjectively . |
| 4 | It was expected that they would interview him later today . |
| 5 | Research for the 1974 Press Commission confirmed both that they enjoyed their paper less than readers of the populars and that they would miss it worse if deprived of it . |
| 6 | I have pressed the Minister on this matter both in correspondence and in a visit to the Department when he and his officials told me that they would reconsider it . |
| 7 | BRITISH racing car makers Lola announced today that they would end their association with the Scuderia Italia Formula One team at the end of the year . |
| 8 | ‘ What an excellent product … its first use has prevented the bank foreclosing on a client when it seemed certain that they would wind them up ’ ( HBB Group of Chartered Accountants ) |
| 9 | Sister Jane Anne said that they would continue their fight : ‘ We do n't want to give up until there has been a fair hearing . ’ |
| 10 | Sons and spouses attended the meeting , having prepared beforehand that they would tell their mother personally that they could not offer her a home , but would keep in touch with . |
| 11 | Hearing from that individual , to his great concern , of the impending calamity , Captain Cuttle , in his delicacy , sheered off again confounded ; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude , and leaving his respectful compliments for the family in general , which he accompanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances , and a friendly intimation that he would " look up again " tomorrow(2) . |
| 12 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 13 | Many people believe that they would love themselves if only someone else would love them first ! |
| 14 | He was n't even sure that they would want him . |
| 15 | said that they would want it increased by 2p and 11 per cent . |
| 16 | To adopt such a pedagogy is to follow the example of Procrustes who , it will be recalled , would either stretch his guests on a rack or cut pieces off their lower limbs so that they would fit his bed . |
| 17 | One suspects that the writers were not altogether clear in their own minds ; the monk of Croyland , for all his extravagant remarks about the northerners , also spoke in terms of the ‘ sovereignty of England ’ , when describing a prophecy among the Welsh , whom he certainly regarded as different , that they would recover it from the English , although they failed to do so in 1469 ( 14 , p.543 ) . |
| 18 | The Grimaud family had written to say that they would meet her with a blue Corvette . |
| 19 | Why it was called the holy alliance was because erm er the signatories agreed that they would er , that they would rule their states and treat er er policy erm er according to christian principles . |
| 20 | This new , private property would be , according to Engels and Morgan , in the hands of men , unlike the communal property of the gens , which was controlled by women , since they controlled the gens ; this was because Engels believed since men would be responsible for production at this stage it was natural that they would control what was necessary for production . |
| 21 | The German authorities announced that they would request his extradition in connection with his alleged collaboration with international terrorists and in particular the 1983 bombing of the French consulate in Berlin [ see p. 33039 ] . |
| 22 | ‘ We thought that they would throw everything at us from the start , ’ said Andy Probert , 38 , the Cambridge cox — and so it proved . |
| 23 | Who could hate her so much that they would send her something like that ? |
| 24 | According to the NCC , the offer was refused and she claimed that the bailiffs told her that they would kick her door down . |
| 25 | Jackson said : ‘ I told Nigel he was too thin to play rugby and that they would break him in half . ’ |
| 26 | Fears that they would repeat their behaviour in the 1987 campaign were not realised . |
| 27 | An expert would be sure to be paid only if he had included a provision in his agreement with the parties that they would pay his fees even if the reference turned out to be invalid for this or whatever reason . |
| 28 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |
| 29 | Sir Patrick and Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said that they would do everything they could to try to bring about an early renewal of the talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | As well as the letters that poured in , the other guests on the programme had all said privately that they would do what they could to help ; Ian Hislop , the editor of Private Eye , had already printed a Friends of John McCarthy ad for free , and Gerald Scarfe had agreed to design a programme cover for the upcoming Benefit . |