Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't cut her hair or it will stop her talking ! ’ |
| 2 | A tribunal will either re instate you or it will say they have to pay compensation . |
| 3 | Or it could help you re-structure your finances by paying off all you owe on store cards , credit cards and hire purchase . |
| 4 | If you can stand the pace and the heat , Bangkok is a very rewarding place to visit , although it may make you feel like taking a week afterwards to lie on a beach and recover . |
| 5 | Not that it would stop him buying his son a small biplane , a Gypsy Moth , for his twenty-first . |
| 6 | ‘ But the vendor told me that it would stop anyone getting access to the computer ! ’ |
| 7 | Both Japan and South Korea had expressed reservations about Dunkel 's draft accord on the grounds that it would oblige them to open their rice markets by imposing " tariffication " under which import quotas would be converted into tariffs [ see p. 38602 ] . |
| 8 | He knew that it would make her feel inferior and stupid and insignificant beside the sultry Domino and her no doubt dazzling sexual experience ! |
| 9 | Thousands of people took AZT in the hope that it would make them feel better and live longer . |
| 10 | The one major drawback with this proposal to ‘ give Channel Four its freedom ’ is that it would make it compete with the existing ITV companies . |
| 11 | He argued , along with Balcon , Pearson and Woolf , that it would do nothing to achieve the FBI 's objectives . |
| 12 | ‘ He went with this girl Katya who is so beautiful that it would hurt you to touch her … ’ |
| 13 | Kings wanted to build up reserves of bullion for the very practical reason that it would enable them to recruit armies , and it was also true that gold and silver had a great power to dazzle men 's minds . |
| 14 | The turbo-alternator manufacturers reckoned that it would enable them to cut between six and nine months off delivery dates , and the boiler-makers reckoned the standardisation of boilers to supply steam to the standard units would also speed up construction . |
| 15 | By this time , however , the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ had produced and tested an atomic bomb , and the new President Truman agreed House the fearful weapon against the Japanese in the hope that it would cause them to agree to a ceasefire . |
| 16 | Not that it would harm us to drink it as it comes . |
| 17 | On the one hand she thought she would possibly enjoy a hour 's gardening when she came home from work and that it would help her unwind , but on the other hand her adult children and her husband would expect tea at 6 p.m . |
| 18 | Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles . |
| 19 | They also sensed that it would help them to make sure that managed competition was made to work ; they feared that , if it failed , politicians might opt for a government-run programme that would cut them out entirely . |
| 20 | A benefit suggested by 17% of the wives from the ‘ substitution attendance ’ was that it would allow them to help each other out in emergencies . |
| 21 | That it might make them think other than we wish them to think ? |
| 22 | It did n't occur to you that we go away from here to be private , that our holidays are our own affair , that it might humiliate me to have Edwin Lorrimer know that I ca n't afford to take you to Venice , even on a ten-day package tour . |
| 23 | ‘ My own feeling would be , ’ Theodora said crisply , ‘ that it might help us to find out in more detail what Paul 's movements were immediately before his death . |
| 24 | Present also , in that statement , is his conviction , which is suggested by the word ‘ unswerving courage ’ , that the pursuit of truth may be difficult , that it may lead one to call in question things that one does n't want to give up and which it is painful to surrender . |
| 25 | She finds it hard to explain why , but ponders that it may have something to do with the religious faith she grew up with . |
| 26 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |
| 27 | Here , I am going to discuss tackle in more depth in the hope that it will help you to choose the best . |
| 28 | This chapter mixes our personal story with principles from the book of Acts in the hope that it will help you to get on with it ! |
| 29 | In fact , Peirce 's explanation is metaphysical , resting on his panpsychist objective idealism : he rejects the use of natural selection in the explanation because the fact that a faculty was necessary for the commonsense inquiries which facilitate survival and reproduction is no guarantee that it will help us to describe reality . |
| 30 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |