Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an upwave was due , it was inevitable that thee would be bad debts , and Money Advice would be needed to help . |
| 2 | We can say that yours can be dated c 1350–1530 . |
| 3 | I know it is unlikely that I will see it , but just the thought that I might is enough . |
| 4 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 5 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 6 | I learned later that , in the presence of a superior officer , he had wrongly suggested that I might be returned to the hotel after treatment . |
| 7 | I felt that I might be able to apply what I learned — if indeed I learned anything — to my attempts to reconstruct the life of Elsie . |
| 8 | But the day when I first beheld this city I was well pleased therewith , and coveted it that I might be its Lord ; and I besought the Lord our God that he would give it me . |
| 9 | If I thought that I might be able to count on your friendship , despite all that 's happened , then … |
| 10 | At the time I conjectured — and she said doubtfully that I might be right — that she was thus exorcizing the spirit of ‘ ferocity , brutality , violence ’ , which had tempted her artist in A Wreath of Roses away from her true world , and made her fearful of being ‘ ladylike , nostalgic , governessy ’ . |
| 11 | But the whole incident has depressed me and for the first time since being diagnosed it occurs to me that I might be dying . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't get a regular game for Bath 's first team so it never occurred to me that I might be selected , ’ he revealed . |
| 13 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |
| 14 | Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going . |
| 15 | It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) . |
| 16 | Quite soon after the note , I began to suspect — what I had never even thought about , for some naive reason — that I might be pregnant . |
| 17 | She rushed to tell me , fearing that I might be upset . |
| 18 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 19 | It then occurred to me that I might be able to help , and I picked up the telephone and spoke to Winston . |
| 20 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 21 | The concept of an objective order demands the possibility of certain criteria of objectivity , such that I might be corrected by others on a given occasion , should I for any reason fall foul of such criteria . |
| 22 | One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there . |
| 23 | It was Laura who had first recruited me to this task , she who had seen that I might be involved . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not like that , ’ she said huffily , ‘ and you 're very rude to even hint that I might be . |
| 25 | If I return to the matter of improving liaison is it possible that I might be provided with a list of the names of the various staff that serve the Branch and also the names of the Committee members- and this updated at whatever time of year the membership changes . |
| 26 | ‘ Besides , did it ever cross your mind that I might be jealous of you ? ’ |
| 27 | I had a flimsy recollection of being afraid of getting drowned ; now I had a flimsy suspicion that I might be buried under snow and never rise again to the surface . |
| 28 | He did n't even seem to consider for a moment that I might be innocent . |
| 29 | I HAVE recently become a vegetarian but am worried because I 'm told that I might be missing out on iron in my diet ? |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't intending to play singles league tennis that season but suggested that I might be able to help out the youngsters and we won most of our matches 5–0 or 4–1 , ’ said Minnis . |