Example sentences of "that it [modal v] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a superstitious premonition that it would be Ivor Newley . |
| 2 | Tom Williams , Labour Member for the constituency in which the colliery was situated , announced that it would be folly to continue the debate , and the dispute , perhaps not a very difficult one in any event , got itself settled . |
| 3 | I was wearing my engagement ring again , and I thought , innocently , that it would be protection from unwelcome advances . |
| 4 | He could not have foreseen that it would be Mozart , 24 years his junior , who would be dead before the year 's end . |
| 5 | He thought that it would be Tessa who 'd yell , so he 'd already put a hand across her mouth . |
| 6 | If we are talking about hypocrisy , let me say that it would be hypocrisy to suggest that we have the powers unilaterally to introduce a labelling directive to discriminate against foreign veal . |
| 7 | Stephen considered that it would be rape where a woman 's permission was ‘ extorted by force or fear of immediate bodily harm . ’ |
| 8 | By notice of appeal dated 26 February 1991 Mr. Pegg appealed against that refusal on the grounds that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in rejecting the proposition that it would be Wednesbury unreasonable for the Secretary of State to fix Mr. Pegg 's tariff ( as a person serving a mandatory term of life imprisonment ) by reference to a period of retribution and deterrence which was higher than that recommended by the judiciary ; ( 2 ) in rejecting submissions that the tariff procedure was in breach of procedural propriety in that the court considered itself bound by the wrong decision of Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 ; and ( 3 ) in rejecting submissions that the decision to refuse his petition should be quashed and viewing that the tariff belonged solely to the Secretary of State to determine . |
| 9 | The government has resisted pressure to introduce a tight licensing system , as operated in Norway and Northern Ireland , arguing that it would be unworkable. * The convention meeting was particularly critical of Greece 's environmental record , citing widespread damage as a result of uncontrolled tourism development . |
| 10 | The mental element with respect to unlawfulness remains to be determined , but it may be assumed after Morgan that it would be intention or recklessness . |
| 11 | Police on the scene predicted that it would be months before the capital 's vital traffic gateway to the north was back to normal . |
| 12 | The next time that she 'd spoken to her father , she 'd suggested a meeting in the certain knowledge that it would be Joe who would turn up ; and he had . |
| 13 | Far from possessing cruise and Pershing II missiles as purely retaliatory weapons after an assault by SS-20s , the strategy is that it would be NATO that would first let loose the dogs of nuclear war . |
| 14 | He remembered that he was being extremely clever and extraordinarily subtle about all of this , and that it would be subtlety that would win this war . |
| 15 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 16 | He did n't want to answer it , thinking that it might be Vasco again , but he could n't afford not to . |
| 17 | They thought that it might be leukaemia . |
| 18 | Let me straight away , er , that it might be folly of me to assume that er , you know a great deal about I B M. By the way I B M stands for International Business Machines , not as , some people used to think , International Ballistic Missiles . |
| 19 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 20 | I thought about letting it ring , but there was a faint hope that it might be Sally . |
| 21 | There was a feeling in the air that it might be time for a change . |
| 22 | After the damaging Westland affair and the loss of two senior Cabinet ministers , there were even Conservatives who thought that it might be time to change the leader . |
| 23 | THE gentlemanly art of boxing has clouted so many expressions into common usage that it might be time to ‘ throw in the towel ’ . |
| 24 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 25 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 26 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 27 | There 's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related . |
| 28 | Until we know a lot more about it , obviously we 've got to assume that it may be murder . |
| 29 | The compression figures , whilst not particularly low , suggest that it may be camshaft wear . |
| 30 | It has been stoked primarily by Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Russian vice-president , who has warned that it may be time to review Khrushchev 's gift of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 , and by President Kravchuk , a Communist Party boss turned Ukrainian nationalist . |