Example sentences of "that they [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silvia had made a hand-on-heart promise that they would make up all their lost hours this evening and this coming Monday , and Ronni in turn had promised to give her one more chance . |
| 2 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 3 | Republican opponents of the bill had managed to raise terror among businessmen that they would end up having to adopt hiring quotas in order to avoid costly discrimination suits . |
| 4 | He thought that they would stay there , the track giving them visibility and line of fire . |
| 5 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 6 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 7 | But it did n't necessarily mean that they would stay together all the time the they may they may even fall out with one another . |
| 8 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 9 | ‘ Even though we shall not necessarily admit it , ’ said Feradach and Nuadu had seen that they would serve even a bastard scion of the Wolfline before any other creature . |
| 10 | Many of the latter were young , in their twenties , and included ‘ yuppies ’ in City and financial institutions who might not smoke a lot but took the attitude that they would smoke more at work if people pressured them over their habit . |
| 11 | Industrialists sometimes argued that they would generate even more electricity privately if the Boards did not make excessive charges for standby supplies , and this view derived some plausibility from the fact that the share of private generation was lower in Britain than in other European countries . |
| 12 | The big fear was that they would pass on potentially-harmful genes to other E . |
| 13 | That they would fit in as well . |
| 14 | Relief organizations were reported to have said that they would pull out of Somalia while any such deployment took place . |
| 15 | I have been to funerals in Baldersdale where bereaved people have shown supreme faith , being convinced that death is only a temporary thing and that they would meet up with their loved ones again . |
| 16 | The plan was that they would meet again in Bordeaux , where Suffolk was soon to go to commandeer a freighter for his scientific booty and machine tools . |
| 17 | Diomedes ' mares differed from mortal horses in that they would feed only on human flesh , a trait encouraged by their master who ordered them to eat any stranger who trespassed in his kingdom . |
| 18 | It seemed unbelievable that they would stand aside and let them leave like this . |
| 19 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 20 | But this does n't affect the fact that they would topple over , for in worlds most similar to ours tailless kangaroos do topple over and are not given crutches . |
| 21 | In New York the Bosnian Serbs hinted that they would walk out of the peace talks if the Security Council called for military action to ground their aircraft . |
| 22 | Felt broke up in 1989 , not because of the usual tired catalogue of ‘ musical differences ’ or drug problems , but because it was written in the stars that they would break up . |
| 23 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 24 | With the issue of the chair still unresolved , the SDLP representatives withdrew temporarily from meetings on May 21 , saying that they would return once Brooke reached agreement with the Unionists . |
| 25 | For example , in maximum severity cases , defendants often used to ignore claims and hope that they would go away . |
| 26 | Conn McCluskey of the CSJ held out strongly against defying the ban but the DHAC representatives made it clear that they would go ahead in any case , and this seems to have swayed the NICRA members . |
| 27 | Do these experts really think that mothers are so inept that they would go on doing something that is so ineffective ? ’ |
| 28 | When the bows plunged into the slate black water at the bottom it seemed to her that they would go on diving in , engulfed by the on-rushing sea , never to return to the surface . |
| 29 | All at once , they allowed themselves to believe that they would go on living . |
| 30 | He said that while some of the pupils may have only experimented with drugs , there was always the worry that they would go on to try other , harder drugs . |