Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're afraid , both of you , that I might discover Mom is n't dead at all , are n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you could , perhaps , make some suggestions , you see , so that I might move things along … ? ’ |
| 3 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; ‘ I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 4 | Another name can be crossed firmly off the IBM Corp list : John Sculley , chairman of Apple Computer Inc has now gone on the record saying ‘ I would like to respond to the persistent rumours that I might leave Apple and go to IBM — I have told Apple 's board of directors and our executive management team that I am not available or interested in being chief executive of IBM ; I believe Apple has a tremendous opportunity to be extremely successful in the years ahead , and Apple will be the most important innovator and leader in the industry ; 10 years ago this April I signed up to do a job , and there is still a lot that I would like to accomplish with all of us ; I hope this statement will put to rest the speculation that I might go to IBM , and also serve as a clear message of the confidence that I have in Apple , ’ he declared . |
| 5 | The Old Testament is one of the great world sources of compassion for the poor and the hurt : the prophets thundered in their defence : ‘ Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears , that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ’ Jeremiah , 9:1 ) . |
| 6 | At the end of that period , in May 1943 , Hugh Wilson , who was in charge of the Rangoon diocese , Bishop West being in the USA recovering from a severe motor accident , agreed that we should move to Simla so that I might maintain liaison with the Burma Government-in-exile that had made its headquarters there . |
| 7 | and I mean I have done several since I left the Scottish Office as well which is quite good and I thought that I might put Sandy at his ease by telling a couple of amusing incidents that have happened post the Scottish Office days |
| 8 | MONDAY morning , and it had been arranged that I would meet Miklós for lunch and then have the chance to talk with some writers from Hungarian PEN . |
| 9 | But I promised earlier in my speech that I would mention service in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War where he rose to the rank of Sergeant . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’ |
| 11 | My parents are dead now , and I moved away from our village to quite a big town in the hope that I would make friends . |
| 12 | Mr. Bill Walker : I have made it clear that I would not be unhappy if Stagecoach ended up with the Strathtay area , but that I would prefer Strathtay bus company . |
| 13 | And in the in fact in the early days o o f o one of the things that had happened f early on was that I would do jobs on my own , and you it 's amazing how many number of one-man jobs there are . |
| 14 | Well , I was always going to be an artist and it was always assumed that I would leave South Africa and go to somewhere like Italy and study at an art school . |
| 15 | Even had it been the best apple tree anyone could knit I can not see that I would hang swing tickets on it ( so badly coloured with felt tip pen that the Infant 's class would be ashamed of the work ! ) . |
| 16 | I said some days ago that I would have difficulty er assisting you in making the choice for for some obvious reasons . |
| 17 | ) At school , so that I would have time to practise two hours a day , by the age of 15 , I had been allowed to drop Latin ( Greek did not at any point arise ) and Maths . |
| 18 | The family could not speak English and my schoolboy French was almost exhausted so I bade them good afternoon but managed to make them understand that I would have dinner with them one evening soon — ‘ An English dinner . ’ |
| 19 | Erm the way that we see it is that I would appraise Kevin , Bill and Cath , initially and that , oh this is just York 's is n't it ? |
| 20 | The , the only thing that I would say Chairman is that erm planning and er er the role of planning is related amongst other things to development and every single solitary er element in development has an effect , maybe only small and it may be distant , but does have an effect on er water falling as rain and thereby on run-off . |
| 21 | ‘ I still rate the Alembics , though , and below that I would say carbon graphite models , in terms of longevity and playing consistency . |
| 22 | I grew a little apprehensive when she informed me that I would see witches and some ugly things , after which I would see my grandfather and other long-dead relatives . |
| 23 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 24 | I shall answer it as best I can , although I am afraid that I may burden Opposition Members with an answer that they have heard before . |
| 25 | So where is that I 'll go Doctor for my hair ? |
| 26 | It also has a detailed chapter on the handling of cross-wind landing gear that I 'll bet Peter Underhill wishes he had read before testing the Helio Courier in our March issue . |
| 27 | It 's very rare when I 'm practising at home that I 'll need feedback or a lot of ambience . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it highly probable , ’ he said seriously , ‘ that I shall marry Jenny eventually , with , of course , her consent and your permission . ’ |
| 29 | This plan makes it as likely as possible that I shall employ behaviours that are appropriate in two vital ways : |
| 30 | A more important point lurks here that I shall have cause to return to later : there is a tension in Minsky 's accounts of these matters between an emphasis on hierarchical organization ( the supreme organizer , or Simon 's modular watchmaker would be paradigms of that ) , and another on heterarchical organization . |