Example sentences of "it [modal v] work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've tried it with Episode 1 , and it may work for the other two episodes as well . |
| 2 | Well , of course the guy with the sixty per cent just kept saying , you know , up yours , in the nicest possible way , you know , it may work for you , but why should I do it when I get no benefit from it , and I own sixty per cent of this outfit . |
| 3 | It may work for some individuals of genius ; it works for young children ; it would definitely work if you were thrown into a situation where you had to communicate or die . |
| 4 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
| 5 | If you have an old fashioned XT then the only type of memory that you can fit to go beyond 604KBytes is expanded memory — so you it should work with almost any spreadsheet . |
| 6 | It should work like a dream with halftones because , given that the grey scales are captured PostSCript can work on them with its internal routines to perform some stunning effects . |
| 7 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 8 | In the short-term it might work as a morale-booster for players to see a fresh face , but in the long-term I do n't think anybody else could do any better than Howard . |
| 9 | It might work on Old Red , I decided , summing him up . |
| 10 | It might work at international level but at club level you need a hardworking manager with a good business head . |
| 11 | It might work for you , with a lot of people it does n't , because there 's a lot of R keying involved . |
| 12 | They suspected that it might work by inserting its own genes — and in particular the ‘ promotor ’ DNA that activates them — next to an innocent cellular proto-oncogene , thus stirring it to an unnatural and cancer-causing level of activity . |
| 13 | It 's us that promoted and surely if we created the situation it might work in our favour but it I mean it ca n't be very pleasant for other people |
| 14 | And if I 'm practising and it sounds good it 'll work for me too . |
| 15 | It 'll work for a lot of them . |
| 16 | It 's a Group 3 fax machine , supporting the Class 2 interface protocol , so it 'll work with any decent fax software . |
| 17 | It 'll work on any phone , not just your own . |
| 18 | I mean it could work on that basis then , that if , for example , I 'm just thinking about , well just from my point of view , when i was arranging that date in Stirling with the Oxford people , I could of said well , Thursday 's okay with me is it okay with you until I 've checked with |
| 19 | The way in which some of the subsidies work is ludicrous , but had we been there at the beginning , we might have been able to reform it so that it could work to our advantage . |
| 20 | It could work for us . ’ |
| 21 | It could work in the same way as the present ‘ attendance allowance ’ , a payment made to severely disabled people which they can then choose how to spend on their care . |
| 22 | So it would work with a square . |
| 23 | for certain lessons , I just give you an example with literature it would work with erm science and er other things as well , you might be told in the next lesson we are going to discuss , for example the first act of a particular play , or we 're going to discuss which particular scientific experiment or the cause of whatever it is |
| 24 | While it is unwise to have a national plan based on a single feature , we could easily test the system scientifically to see if it would work on a small scale , and widen it if successful . |
| 25 | It would work for one part but the next part needed another sound to it , so maybe we 'd use the Paul Reed Smith for the second half of the solo . |
| 26 | I 'd read about this technique in my books , but it was only when I did the course that I realised that , although it would work for sparrowhawks and most other hunting birds , Dawn 's hunting did not depend on speed . |
| 27 | Lunatic to reckon that it would work for him … but only as stupid as the acceptance of the alternative which was fourteen years in the camps . |
| 28 | With its aim of achieving ‘ a greater unity between its Members for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress ’ , the new body became Western Europe 's first postwar political organisation , one which immediately and daringly claimed that it would work for ‘ an economic and political union ’ . |
| 29 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 30 | Zena Murray had seen on television that beauty queens used the trick so she figured it would work for her . |