Example sentences of "that [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tormented by notion that should have spent holiday with Jack and Kate from next door but seven . |
| 2 | That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar . |
| 3 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 4 | I can imagine the scenario that must have taken place before the Bill was introduced . |
| 5 | It was this impression that might have cost Labour the marginal seats — especially in London and the South — it needed to make the breakthrough . |
| 6 | A sight that might have intrigued Professor . |
| 7 | But Ferdinand 's bankrupt Spain could not produce the small army that might have postponed defeat . |
| 8 | In the Belfast research programme one of our aims was to use the complex patterns discovered in a live speech community to throw light on the kind of movements that might have taken place in linguistic change in the past . |
| 9 | But in Fiona 's case he stressed : ‘ Our understanding is that any relationship that might have taken place did not com-mence until he was not a client of the service . |
| 10 | I , I fear that the use from any stockpiling that might have taken place er in this country is a very real hazard . |
| 11 | These sudden developments in a period of five weeks when Pons and Jones had been having discussions , culminating in the above public claim that could have influenced patent priorities , fuelled the suspicion in the University of Utah camp that they had been upstaged . |
| 12 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 13 | Mala was glowering at me , an angry gaze that could have melted accelsteel , not needing to voice her opinion of my error of judgement . |
| 14 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 15 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 16 | He said in a grave tone that would have done credit to the S.M.O. , ‘ So she is still having to stay in her bedroom ? |
| 17 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 18 | Janice said suddenly , throwing herself at me and enveloping my upper torso in a hug that would have done credit to a grizzly . |
| 19 | And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest . |
| 20 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 21 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
| 22 | And in a place that would have made Prendergast 's — arrangement — seem almost pure . ’ |
| 23 | The rule abandons an earlier plan that would have allowed safety boards or state officials to help researchers make such decisions on their own . |
| 24 | ‘ The subpoenas that would have shed light have been blocked . |
| 25 | Incidents such as that in ( 37 ) brought about a false start to the era of human religion , because the apparent success of an event attributed to the ‘ god ’ was a happening that would have taken place anyway , for example , a natural occurrence such as rainfall . |
| 26 | By June 1879 Benjamin the Silversmith was terminally ill with cancer of the abdomen ; in the earlier part of the century that would have meant admission to the workhouse or protracted and difficult nursing at home . |
| 27 | In a strange way , if you forgot what it really was , perhaps never knew , here was a kind of trusting innocence that would have found favour with the non-scientific crew of Titron . |
| 28 | It alleged the industry had paid off several Socialist MPs to block legislation in parliament that would have laid pachinko parlours more open to the scrutiny of the tax authorities . |
| 29 | So there were pressures that would have encouraged Halley to wear an orthodox face in public . |
| 30 | FitzAlan sent him a look that would have pierced armour at a hundred paces . |