Example sentences of "it [modal v] of [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may of course lead to a greater use of the concept of collateral warranties than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 2 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 3 | ( It should of course have none , these are permitted spurious pixels due to odd effects , e.g. dust motes . ) |
| 4 | The author of the Vindiciae similarly asserts that since " none were ever born with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands , and [ since ] no man can be a king by himself , nor reign without a people … it must of necessity follow , that kings were at first constituted by the people . " |
| 5 | It might of course have been a more acceptable blue when it was put on because it changes |
| 6 | If Scotland were to have a Parliament with tax-raising powers , it could of course raise taxes that it wanted to raise , but the people of Scotland should be aware that there would then be no capping and no one to protect them from excessive expenditure decided by Strathclyde or Lothian . |
| 7 | It would of course mean all the doors would have to be cut at the bottom to clear it , and the whole area ought to be covered to avoid having a slight step . |
| 8 | And when he pointed out that these were Irish , not British Trade unions they were talking about , it was sadly admitted that the English disease had poisoned the minds of many impressionable Irish trade unionists and that it would of course take time entirely to eradicate malign English influences from the land of Saints and Scholars . |
| 9 | The general had in turn given him a picture of their problems with the Yugoslavs in Venezia Giulia : " General Harding was convinced that he could force out the Jugoslavs in their present numbers but it would of course entail an operation of Importance . |
| 10 | Finally , the revenue has contended that the proper procedure was for Woolwich to seek to challenge its decision not to pay interest by way of judicial review , although it would of course contend that no order should be made on such a review in the present case . |
| 11 | It will of course anger some because its concentration on problems implicitly denies the possibility of good financial reporting . |
| 12 | It should be pointed out that , because the employing firms are themselves not perfectly competitive but possess some monopoly power , the union 's actions will not necessarily result in losses for the firms involved ; however , it will of course reduce their profits and result in a redistribution of income from profit-earners to wage-earners . |
| 13 | If you load up your sentence with trifles before you 've built it properly , it will of course fall down . |
| 14 | It will of course include other |
| 15 | While this reform is specifically designed to prevent many of today 's disgruntled education consumers joining the ranks of tomorrow 's underclass , it will of course have implications for a much wider group of young people , whose talents and needs have been all too little met by the emphasis on the reorganization of secondary education to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 16 | The reason why a rational person would draw this inference is that an unexpectedly high price can be due to a positive aggregate demand shock or a positive relative demand shock , and it can of course arise from a combination of the two . |