Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chances are that it wo n't make an ideal radio record any more than ‘ Candle in the Wind ’ would be a dancefloor hit at Stringfellow 's . |
| 2 | If you have not used something for literally years the chances are that it wo n't come in useful for a rainy day ( the hoarder 's excuse ) and that you probably wo n't ever use it . |
| 3 | The problem is that the pool of liquid usually forms underneath the car , where it is both inconspicuous and difficult to get at , so the chances are that it will not be mopped up . |
| 4 | Today , the odds are that it will not survive in its present form for more than another generation . |
| 5 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 6 | ‘ If proper thought had been given to that , I think the conclusion must have been that it would not be beneficial … |
| 7 | While the Germans presented their situation as a disaster , they overlooked the fact that one of Danzig s major and continual problems had been that it could not grow or thrive purely on the traffic of its immediate Prussian hinterland . |
| 8 | Think they are but it might not be we could ask they 'll probably be the vegetarian Christmas lunch as well wo n't there ? |
| 9 | It might be or it might not . |
| 10 | It could be or it could n't . |
| 11 | Gartmore investors will have to wait until the end of January to know who the new owners will be although it will almost certainly be an overseas based group . |
| 12 | It might be that the subject noun and verb phrase go together to form a constituent , so you have Florence teased Dougal or the structure might not be that it might just be three separate constituents with no firm structure forming a further constituent , so why that structure ? |
| 13 | A member of our research team will show a tape of one of the programmes and hopefully that will persuade whoever it may be that it might not be such a bad thing to appear on it . |
| 14 | The justification for this was expressed to be that it would thus be open to a court at a later date to review the matter of sex determination Ormrod J. 's decision , much cited and approved of in the House of Commons debate , evidently will remain the law . |
| 15 | The answer must be that it could not since the fact of adopting depreciation accounting severs the link with finance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It might be but it might not be either , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 19 | Expectations were that it would not be possible to bring forward legislation until the next session of parliament but Mr McFall is hoping that his bill will provide the Government with an earlier opportunity to act and prove ministers are serious about their declared intention to crack down on crime . |
| 20 | We know from the housing benefit system that there is a backlog of cases , I think hundred and a , quite a considerable number of people of where people are having problems producing wage receipts and evidence of income now and one dreads to think of the burden that will be putting on the letting section by erm inventing yet another system o of this kind erm I think people we know that people are wary already of applying for benefits because of means testing and I think that there 's that it would simply discourage people who really are in need from coming forward . |
| 21 | ‘ What I mean , love , ’ the man said slowly , ‘ is that it wo n't do you any good , nor your grandfather neither . |
| 22 | The sad truth is that it wo n't achieve anything . |
| 23 | While it may not succeed where it thinks it can , if it thinks it ca n't the probability is that it wo n't . |
| 24 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 25 | The fact is that it wo n't be an integrated service . |
| 26 | Our view then , which is undiminished today and is at the centre of the debate , is that it ought not to be the function of the social security system to support students , not only because of the administrative burden placed on the Department 's local benefit offices and local authorities , but because there already exists a maintenance system for those in full-time education . |
| 27 | A huge problem , though , from the conversationists ' point of view , is that it may not be in the interests of fishermen or whalers or hunters of ivory — or at least not in their financial interests — to achieve maximum sustainable yield . |
| 28 | It would not do , the objection continues , to say that the legitimate power of every authority is limited , and that one of the limitations is that it may not err much . |
| 29 | One important lesson which one can draw from this historical analysis is that it may not be possible to predetermine the nature of the proper relationship between politics and the press : each era spawns different sets of relationships which are closely linked to particular configurations of social , political and economic forces . |
| 30 | The big potential drawback of a personal pension , particularly for an older person , is that it may not offer you such attractive benefits as your present pension arrangements . |