Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , it may suggest a drift away from the shallow , light soils favoured in the early period to heavier soils which are more fertile and produce a greater yield per acre . |
| 2 | It may make an appearance further north but the light rain will persist , especially over high ground . |
| 3 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 4 | It may take a couple more hundred years , a thousand , but we will get there . |
| 5 | Less acceptable is the term ‘ general purpose detergent ’ as it may imply a capability not warranted by such a product . |
| 6 | ‘ It should feel a bit more like going to a festival , where the peripheral things are always really important . |
| 7 | It should provide a place where children can meet and talk with adults who live in and serve the local community — the fireman , the nurse , the secretary , the shopkeeper , the police officer , the craftsman and craftswoman . |
| 8 | The irony of the News International judgment is that it should put an end also to the widespread exclusion of left-wing newspapers and magazines . |
| 9 | The freewheeling diode has to withstand a reverse voltage equal to the d.c. supply voltage when the transistor is conducting and it must conduct a peak forward current equal to the rated phase current when the transistor first turns off . |
| 10 | A bureaucracy , on balance , promotes efficiency in larger organisations , but it must achieve a balance whereby rules are impersonal but not inhuman , the structure is organised but not rigid , and employees are loyal without being unthinking conformists . |
| 11 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 12 | It would seem that , for a holiday to be enjoyed , it must have a reason more compelling than that it shall simply fill a gap , or satisfy some politically motivated demand . |
| 13 | I think it might it might change a bit now it seems to be more American now especially in Australia all the music the current music in Australia that 's being played seems to be coming in from America . |
| 14 | it might flow a bit more easily might it . |
| 15 | and then it might flow a bit more evenly , might it then , right Michael bring yours out now please . |
| 16 | Erm , if I put a space in , it might look a bit better . |
| 17 | It might take a bit longer than . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes — but unless I 'm mistaken it 'll mean a lot more to the man who attacked Anna . |
| 19 | It 'll cost an enthusiast about £7,000 to build a TR6 from scratch using a new bodyshell . |
| 20 | It 'll cost an enthusiast about £7,000 to build a TR6 from scratch using a new bodyshell . |
| 21 | Because I 'm going out with people from work tonight and seeing as I 'm so it 'll look a bit off . |
| 22 | If we put the player on top of something tinny it 'll sound a bit more like real music . ’ |
| 23 | He did not know that Mme Bluot had asked me not to walk in that direction ( ‘ It is a street so disreputable , madame , it could lead a child astray . ’ ) , |
| 24 | If stepped on , it could blow a foot off . |
| 25 | Land reform had always been considered by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party to be a means to an end , indeed it could provide a way forward for China on economic , social , communist and ideological grounds . |
| 26 | He said it could follow an incident so dire that the mind had to block it out , sometimes along with other things . |
| 27 | By the time the agency finishes its massive job , it could have a lot more worthless property on its hands . |
| 28 | To hell with the helium balloon , it could wait a bit longer . |
| 29 | A wintry landscape at Torside in early 1980 , as a lone 76047 makes for Dewsnap — it was doubtful however that it would haul a train back to Tinsley , there being very few daytime workings at this time . |
| 30 | It would make a poem too stereotyped if this did in fact happen and so the metrical pattern will be varied . |