Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having pledged that it will not raise taxes , the Government is faced with trimming corners where it can or increasing its borrowing . |
| 2 | He argued that the physical capabilities of the plant determined where it could or could not live , and studied the effects of various environmental factors , especially water , in determining the prevailing vegetation . |
| 3 | It could put some in the town centre or it could or it need not . |
| 4 | John Hitch had seemed convinced that it would and Plummer trusted the instincts of his colleague almost as he trusted his own . |
| 5 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 6 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 7 | Whether or not all meaning can be made explicit in the text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can and that making it so is a valid scientific enterprise . |
| 8 | The announcement of a firm intention to make an offer for a target company must only be made when the offeror has every reason to believe that it can and will continue to be able to implement the offer ( Rule 2.5(a) ) . |
| 9 | Such an announcement should not be made until the offeror has every reason to believe that it can and will continue to be able to implement it . |
| 10 | The most annoying fact was that it could and should have been a masterpiece . |
| 11 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 12 | For example , he thought that BT should be allowed to offer entertainment services but seemed to be unaware that it could and had applied for cable franchises . |
| 13 | It was , indeed , the dominant concept of the age , though there was a rather fundamental division between those who thought that progress would be more or less continuous and linear , and those ( like Marx ) who knew that it must and would be discontinuous and contradictory . |
| 14 | Ask it to do more than it can and it may not do what it should . |
| 15 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 16 | Er anyhow th th the , the eventual thing was maybe her blood pressure was going up higher than it should and maybe whether the cumulative stress of having a husband off in my state , maybe |
| 17 | yeah and they can sell duds and they 're , you know , they 're not missing out , they 'll be making money and it can kill you , and it can kill you even if , you know , you can take the real Ecstasy and it can but supposedly what 's good about Ecstasy is that it 's a designer drug and it gets you on a really good high and you know you dance a lot and you |
| 18 | How long it lasts — and it can and ought to last for years — depends on your delivering what your agency promised . |
| 19 | Clearly er my recollection at the time there was great concern and it can and it 's it 's it 's arguably reflected in the public response , about creating a new road passing between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 20 | But it can and does happen . |
| 21 | My opinion is that sex offending can not be cured , but it can and should be better supervised and controlled . |
| 22 | The Survey itself lacks the funding to underpin complete systematic re-mapping , but it can and does make use of information gained in the course of university research , in the pursuit of its refinement and maintenance of the map , and in pursuing research of strategic or economic significance . |
| 23 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 24 | While it could and did allow that the discoveries of natural science and of philological and literary criticism of the text could cast light upon the meaning of the Bible , it held that the proper responsibility of the theologian is to interpret the Bible out of itself . |
| 25 | Section 739(2) reads as follows : Where by virtue or in consequence of any such transfer , either alone or in conjunction with associated operations , such an individual has , within the meaning of this section , power to enjoy , whether forthwith or in the future , any income of a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom which , if it were income of that individual received by him in the United Kingdom … would be chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise , that income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be income of that individual for all purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 26 | " That income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be the income of that individual for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts " — the individual ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom can be chargeable under the section whether or not he receives the income . |
| 27 | " Capital sums " — section 739(3) ( 4 ) states : ( 3 ) Where , whether before or after any such transfer , such an individual receives or is entitled to receive any capital sum the payment of which is in any way connected with the transfer or any associated operation , any income which , by virtue or in consequence of the transfer , either alone or in conjunction with associated operations , has become the income of a person resident or domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be income of that individual for all purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 28 | That is to say , whether it should or should not be a republic . |
| 29 | It does not ratify the Maastricht Treaty and any political discussion about whether it should or not is out of order . |
| 30 | Lastly there are those concerning the development of capitalism , particularly whether it is beneficial for the mass of people living in lesser developed countries or whether it could or will become so . |