Example sentences of "and it [modal v] [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now you 're taking it back to S A and it 'll probably be left out there . |
| 2 | Think about the task naïvely , and it ca n't be done . |
| 3 | So I , I do n't think it 's there er and it ca n't be created quickly enough . |
| 4 | told me I was talking to Brian day before yesterday , second line , he says there 's loads of them doing it and it ca n't be cured |
| 5 | It does n't bind you , and it ca n't be held against you . |
| 6 | Whereas when you and I were buying houses it was oh it 's a long process and it ca n't be hurried . |
| 7 | But the main thrust of Olson 's argument is unaffected , and it ca n't be set aside : this great American poet ( and Olson knows that Pound is all of that ) was a Fascist , profoundly , and no amount of talk about his affinities with Whitman will save him for democracy , nor will any attempt to treat his anti-Semitism as an unrelated pathological aberration . |
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| 9 | Meetings , Bloody Meetings is the title of a well-known training film produced by Video Arts Ltd , and it may well be shown to you on your course . |
| 10 | Reaction time has been found to be extended in cases of brain damage ( Costa , 1962 ) and it may reasonably be thought that latency to respond is related to the degree of damage . |
| 11 | Warriors still hunt the jaguar in ritualised fashion ; they must stalk it for three days and it may only be killed with a wooden spear . |
| 12 | I think that spaghetti should be thin and it may often be referred to as spaghettini — it 's much less like eating long worms ! |
| 13 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 14 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 15 | Of course , watching or half-watching a debate is not the same thing as taking part in one , and it might well be argued that level or style of participation does not demand enough of the individual citizen . |
| 16 | The baby can certainly suffer complications if deprived of mother 's milk and it might well be claimed that talk of its missing its mother is a special language-game pointing only to the source of the deprivation , but Singer is certainly not using the phrase with this in mind . |
| 17 | There was in fact retaliation in any case , and it might even be argued that this silence on the part of the radio — which everyone knew to be under government control — actually encouraged angry Luos to believe that a Kikuyu conspiracy existed within the Government . |
| 18 | And it might even be said that it is from this , far more than from early Christianity , that we have inherited our sense of the dubious physical nature of the female , and our idea that the human norm is male and that to be female is in itself a pathological state . |
| 19 | and er it would n't be calculated to provide the erm , those people who have er policies at with er particular confidence would it ? , and it would n't be calculated to assist in questions of er solvency and the like er which on any of you are all er considerable importance to the er European community . |
| 20 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 21 | He never writes a memo saying you know we are supporting or attacking this government as about this election campaign , never , but journalists know what his view is and they write in a code with that view and if they did n't they would quickly find out where they should be and it would not be working for one of those newspapers and the thing that 's quite perverse about it is the . |
| 22 | On the contrary , a wide range of dispersal agents would allow a larger number of individuals to strip the tree of fruit at its prime and it would then be distributed to a wider range of habitats and be buffered against any disaster that might overcome the dispersal agent of a species relying on just one such agent . |
| 23 | It is our intention to keep goods turning over at a livelier pace and it would therefore be appreciated if you would return any goods which you are unable to sell . |
| 24 | She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all . |
| 25 | The 19th-century German economist Friedrich List argued for just such a policy to build the emerging German empire : in the same way , the manipulation of the economy would be used for political nation-building , and it would inevitably be controlled by the most powerful country , if not deliberately , then by default . |
| 26 | Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence . |
| 27 | ‘ And it wo n't be resting — not in the way most actors use the term , anyway . ’ |
| 28 | Then she added , ‘ One day , it wo n't be long , I think , and it wo n't be contrived , then I 'll come knocking on your door . ’ |
| 29 | The game 's just called Putty now , and it wo n't be released on the C64 . |
| 30 | The air-conditioning needs freon gas , which has all leaked away , and it wo n't be topped up again until spring . |