Example sentences of "[noun sg] that it [vb mod] [verb] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the revolt against Labour in the housing schemes , which it was promising at the start of the campaign , never materialised , and its prediction that it would win a majority of seats now looks silly . |
| 2 | Alcatel Alsthom SA were sharply lower in active trading on the Paris Bourse yesterday on talk that it might buy a stake in chipmaker SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV and increase its stake in nuclear power plant builder Framatome SA , Reuter reports . |
| 3 | I remember Lorne saying something to the effect that it might look a bit bulky but , with their excellent petrol , in the long run it was neater than bringing hundreds of spare flashlight batteries along . |
| 4 | It may well be argued that the government was able to defeat the General Strike by its propaganda campaigns , the arrest of Communist activists , the use of volunteers and by sheer patience , in allowing the General Council 's Negotiating Committee to spend several futile days negotiating the Samuel Memorandum in the hope that it would provide a basis for a settlement . |
| 5 | I therefore offered the book in the hope that it might embody a healing and unitize perspective on this most exciting and disturbing movement of our times . |
| 6 | When we were shown into the chargé 's office , I studiously avoided shaking hands or having any eye contact , determined to alert him to the fact that I understood and respected their religious customs , in the hope that it might make a difference . |
| 7 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no question that it would become a permanent feature . |
| 9 | The raid was immediately followed by the company 's announcement that it would cancel a contract concluded with Iran on June 1 for the sale of 257 tonnes of thionyl chloride , allegedly a precursor of mustard gas . |
| 10 | Despite the encouraging signs mentioned earlier , there is a danger that it may meet a similar fate to all its worthy predecessors . |
| 11 | Further development of the programme and of the role of the Community Mother is possible , though within the present structures there is a danger that it could become a mere extension of the health services , with the Community Mother as a low-waged employee , losing voluntary status , altering motivation and reducing their effectiveness as change agents , becoming as Gill Walt concludes about Community Health Workers in many countries , ‘ just another pair of hands ’ rather than the change agents they were claimed to be . |
| 12 | It 's only when all the minerals have been ‘ mopped up ’ by the soap that it can form a lather . |
| 13 | It is one of the most ancient of dye plants , its use being recorded 2,500 years ago , and it is such a strong dye that it will produce a deep pink-brown without a mordant — with alum and tin it supplies red and red-brown . |
| 14 | The shadow cabinet therefore took its decision in the clear knowledge that it would have a fight on its hands , but it did so with the support of Lansdowne and Law . |
| 15 | FISA has been invited to design its F1 circuit within the complex and it is Pook 's belief that it will provide a permanent home ‘ for one of the grands prix in the US ’ . |
| 16 | The proponents of this approach to policy claim that it will encourage a more stable background in which the private sector can make its own investment and spending plans with greater certainty about future government policy ; that it will prevent abrupt and damaging shifts of policy ; and that it will make government manipulation of monetary policy for electoral purposes more difficult . |
| 17 | The dark pigmentation of the skin gives further protection in hot climates , reducing the risk of problems with eyes and udder , and there is a theory that it might have a touch of Bos indicus blood in it . |
| 18 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 19 | They discourage any ideas on the part of the Soviet Union that it could risk a nuclear attack on Europe without involving the United States . |
| 20 | He has tried unsuccessfully to persuade government that it should devote a fixed proportion of either GDP or the defence budget ( which has some logic as an idea , since the Meteorological Office is funded through the Ministry of Defence ) to research into global warming ; and failure in that respect has reinforced his view that governments across the world find inexpensive words preferable to expensive actions . |
| 21 | The Chinese side had ordered that construction be halted until the project received China 's approval , saying that China had not been consulted on the matter , and expressing concern that it would place a financial burden on the new government after 1997 . |
| 22 | Although the planning of the cottage rested on the patriarchal assumption that it would house a male art lover , with perhaps a wife and certainly a ( female ) domestic to service it , Unwin displayed some unease about the status of such service , and thought that : " It is possible , though not easy , to introduce one helper into home life on equal terms , but very difficult indeed to do this with two " ( 1901 p66 ) . |
| 23 | A LOWER Ormeau community group has hit out at South Belfast MP Martin Smyth 's recent statement that it should learn a lesson in tolerance from a Belfast cross-community campaigner . |
| 24 | The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ ) |
| 25 | Is Labour saying that it will create a parliament in Scotland which is at liberty to repeal Westminster legislation ? |
| 26 | Rugby is identified so strongly as an Afrikaner sport by the black majority that there appears little doubt that it will become a political football . |
| 27 | Indeed it is this alienation that is the welling source of their pride and self-esteem but in order that it can thrive a psychic and political boundary has to be drawn around it . |
| 28 | Coca-Cola which hopes to build a new plant in Banbury says it ca n't rule out the possibility that it will use a toxic chemical in the canning process at the factory . |
| 29 | It was his idea that it would become a model city at an initial cost of £100,000 . |
| 30 | This formulation still allows it to be a justifiable ground for causing pain that it will promote a ‘ greater ’ pleasure , when no equivalent pleasure can be obtained otherwise . |