Example sentences of "that this [vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Trippier , a Minister of State at the Department of the Environment , said that the government was " concerned about suggestions that land values might be blighted because of perception of the registers " and that this might hamper its inner-city regeneration programme . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean that this might give me a chance to do a bit of snooping , ’ I said . |
| 3 | Of course , ’ he went on silkily , ‘ I 'm aware that this might upset your arrangements with … now , what was his name ? ’ |
| 4 | Thus , many users prefer to stay hidden regardless of the problems that this might cause their families or themselves . |
| 5 | Cynics have pointed out that this might have something to do with the toll . |
| 6 | We get a glimpse of it when Curtis argues , in support of his view that America should have Near Eastern mandates , that this would place her advantageously for the regeneration of post-revolutionary Russia ; as ‘ steward of the Near East ’ , she could ‘ extend to the blind giant the neighbourly hand of a friendship which is open to no suspicion ’ . |
| 7 | The Iraqi complaint included full details about almost all the items stolen from its museums in the hope that this would prevent them falling into private hands or being auctioned , but according to the Director of the Iraqi Museum , Sabah Jasim , this effort met with failure . |
| 8 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 9 | He refused to co-operate and was told he was ‘ letting the school down ’ and given an indication that this would affect his school report , ‘ and that 's when I realized that I was only acknowledged for my sporting ability . ’ |
| 10 | The delegates voted on Sept. 5 against an Egyptian proposal to merge the organization with the UNCTAD " Group of 77 " ( developing countries ) , on the grounds that this would weaken its non-aligned status . |
| 11 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 12 | However , it was considered that this would make it too expensive for the ‘ generality of purchasers ’ and it was confined to ‘ those plants only which are either curious in themselves or may be useful in trades , medicines , etc. including the figures of such new plants as have not been noticed by any former botanists . ’ |
| 13 | He himself spent hours in the chapel reserved for cadets , praying to the image of Rogal Dorn , and to the Emperor , attempting to recapture the moment when he had flown through fire , sure that this would stand him in good stead in battle . |
| 14 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 15 | ‘ Ah , I see you 're conservative in your ways , ’ he sneered , expecting that this would goad me into Satanism . |
| 16 | It was generally believed that this would increase their efficiency in line with private industry . |
| 17 | He also exhibited seven paintings at the British Institution ( 1841–60 ) and eighty-four ( 1841–69 ) at the Society of British Artists , of which he was elected a member in 1845 , resigning in 1852 in the hope that this would assist his election to associateship of the Royal Academy . |
| 18 | At another time , He told her that she had conceived again , and when she , fearful that this would interrupt her ‘ contemplation ’ , asked how she should look after the child , Christ replied casually that he would find it a keeper . |
| 19 | The forces of government , the working-class organizations and the Jewish establishment wished initially to ignore Mosley and the fascists in the hope that this would deny him publicity and defuse a potentially explosive situation . |
| 20 | At the time , she imagined that this would help her study immeasurably . |
| 21 | It was thought that this would stimulate our divinity students in being close to the university and so involved in contact with university students who would in future years be leaders of the nation , just as we hoped the divinity students would become leaders of the Church . |
| 22 | Jordan objected that this would violate its sovereignty . |
| 23 | Smith , who summed up the philosophy as one of ‘ Discipline and Religion ’ , hoped that by emphasizing masculinity and the becoming of ‘ Christian men ’ , the boys would come to see the ‘ manliness of Christianity ’ and that this would counter their tendency to regard it as ‘ effeminate and weak ’ , an idea which seemed to be too popular . |
| 24 | The British and other European countries knew that this would allow US airlines to fly from the USA , pick up passengers in Britain or in Europe , and fly on to any other destination , which would mean complete US domination of civil aviation . |
| 25 | The danger in quoting fragments of their writings out of context is that this may distort their intention and produce a static picture . |
| 26 | In a damaging exposure of Saint Beuve 's literary critical method , Proust argued against Saint Beuve that the biography of a writer , erm even an account of his habits , his social attitudes , his vices , his virtues and so on , that this may tell us nothing at all about the nature and significance of his imaginative work . |
| 27 | Lenders themselves , just as borrowers do , have a lot to gain from insurance against the risk of unemployment or illness , in that this should reduce their own bad-debt or late-payment costs ( and so perhaps reduce interest rates too ) . |
| 28 | Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong . |
| 29 | So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities . |
| 30 | It is likely that this will make him more tired than usual and so we might guess that he will sleep longer . |