Example sentences of "it [modal v] do [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt , land it anyway — it may do less damage ! |
| 2 | The process can be speeded up somewhat by changing the blotting paper several times while the flowers are being pressed , although you must be extremely careful as the plants will be exceptionally fragile at this point and it may do more harm than good to disturb them . |
| 3 | When the participants fail to address the agenda referred to above , it may do more harm than good . |
| 4 | It should do this time if your if Is this right ? |
| 5 | ‘ It might do more harm than good , ’ he said , alarmed at the amount of blood running down Meredith 's face . |
| 6 | Not that it 'll do any good . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If you think it 'll do any good . ’ |
| 8 | Do you think it 'll do any harm ? |
| 9 | ’ It 'll do more harm than good . ’ |
| 10 | It 'll do more good at home ca n't you ? |
| 11 | Protectionism is not a serious counter movement to global capitalism because if it was successful it could do great damage to the system and , ultimately , destroy it . |
| 12 | But as Mark Smith reports some believe it could do more harm than good . |
| 13 | His eyes gleamed ; he smiled as he recited what it would do one day . |
| 14 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 15 | ‘ If we do not participate in the treaty it would do egregious damage to Britain , ’ he said . |
| 16 | But I do n't think it would do any good . ’ |
| 17 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 18 | She hardly dared to believe it would do any good . |
| 19 | Briefly he wondered if it would do any good to tell the ship 's administrator that the presence of the newly appointed Admiral of the White on an ordinary survey mission was not an occurrence of special significance . |
| 20 | I do n't think it would do any good to go on talking . ’ |
| 21 | Why had n't she stood her ground ; simply called Luke 's bluff — even pleaded with him if she 'd thought it would do any good ? |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't see that it would do any harm , ’ said the Direktor glumly . |
| 23 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 24 | Finally , if there 's another accident overseas like Chernobyl , it will do enormous damage to the reputation of the nuclear industry in the rest of the world . |
| 25 | But environmentalists say it will do some harm . |
| 26 | We 'll make one more pass , a little closer , but I do n't think it will do any good . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know if it will do any good , ’ she said as she looked at the medicine , ‘ but it might . |
| 28 | However , very often the frame looks rather tatty and in definite need of some loving care before it can do proper justice to your work . |
| 29 | It can be used as an incisor ; a grounder ; skew chisel ; it can do some modelling , cleaning corners , curved ‘ V ’ cuts that twist and turn , has the tight size and bend to enable good control regardless of grain , and gets the blue ribbon . |