Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He likes rosewood 's appearance and bass response and will use it if asked , but deep down he feels it 's too heavy to be an ideal guitar-building wood . |
| 2 | Still , it is difficult to believe that either linguistics or psychology has achieved a level of theoretical understanding that might enable it to support a ‘ technology ’ of language teaching . |
| 3 | As Chamberlain 's doctrines swept the Tory rank and file , liberal pacifists feared that Tariff Reform would provide the new imperialism with a level of popular appeal that would make it unstoppable . |
| 4 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 5 | Engels says that Cognos is now in the early stages of negotiation with ICL and Bull and the company is engineering a Unix System V.4-compliant product that will make it economically more reasonable to appear on a wider variety of Unix environments . |
| 6 | By virtue of Core Rule 36 , many transactions which would fall full square within Core Rule 28 are exempted because the Chinese Wall serves to negative the firm , or certain individuals within the firm , of the requisite knowledge that would bring it within the prohibition contained in Core Rule 28 . |
| 7 | And IBM has a further round of announcements set for next Tuesday 16th which will see the AS/400 move into the open systems frame with new Posix functionality and possibly a future game-plan that would see it share Rios 2 — or beyond — chip architectures with the RS/6000 . |
| 8 | Conceivably , the shipping company could be sold off as a going concern that might bring it up to about 1Op in the Pound . " |
| 9 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 10 | Antony Santos , 27 , said : ‘ Some nights I feel a cold presence and can feel it trying to smother me . ’ |
| 11 | Slightly clumsy hard rock that may make it in America later . |
| 12 | It is not human capacity that will do it . |
| 13 | The proliferation of regional ale brands since the sector 's launch in 1988 made it difficult to build a national product that would kick-start it in the way that Perrier set off the mineral water market in the seventies . |
| 14 | Whatever the sufferer or family member may say at times of anger or despair , nobody causes addictive disease or can control it or cure it . |
| 15 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 16 | Asked about Labour 's attitude if it were the largest party , Mr Gould said on London Weekend Television that Mr Kinnock would accept the invitation to form a Government , would draw up a legislative programme and would put it to Parliament . |
| 17 | BGS is making geochemical tests on material from two deep boreholes at Dounreay , and investigating potential interactions between the alkali-rich cementitious material used in the construction of the repository and the saturated groundwater that would bathe it . |
| 18 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 19 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 20 | It has a smooth , elegant style that will take it happily forward , with the odd changes here and there , through to the end of the decade . |
| 21 | ‘ Hunger ’ was the only word that would describe it . |
| 22 | The only thing that 'll touch it is an arc-welder — and it 's pretty conductive stuff too . |
| 23 | Crystals is about the only thing that would use it . |
| 24 | There is a lot to do and we are the only generation that can do it . |
| 25 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
| 26 | We understand that we do not satisfy stringent criteria laid down by the Charity Commission for formal registration , and in the event we would prefer to avoid the substantial cost of registration and the administrative burden that would accompany it . |
| 27 | There is always some magic remedy that will cure it , or some whizz-kid quack with a patent method . |
| 28 | ‘ And there ai n't no magic pill that will do it . ’ |
| 29 | They do not believe you ; they think that you are holding back some secret clue that would make it all plain . |
| 30 | In Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris Lord Denning MR said that by construing a restriction according to the object and intent rule the courts refuse to hold a covenant bad merely because of unskilful drafting and will cut it down so as to reveal its essential reasonableness . |