Example sentences of "[pron] it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 32 | The Consortium had a lengthy list of over forty witnesses to present , and therefore a lot of material about which it could legitimately cross-question the Board . |
| 33 | Does he control presentation , identify the item , sequence properly ? 10 If a certain item is dealt with , how far removed is it from an item with which it could easily be confused ? 11 Are the contexts situational , natural and not contrived ? 12 Compare dialogue and prose texts : how many new words are introduced , and in what proportion to running words ( words already used ) ? |
| 34 | If one writes and asks — or begs — British Rail to include improvements in the Bill which it could easily have done by extending part III , one gets the same treatment . |
| 35 | Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day . |
| 36 | In his inaugural address to ministers earlier that day the Czechoslovak President , Vaclav Havel , had urged the CSCE to create " a smaller organ similar to that of the UN Security Council , to which it could also give some executive powers " . |
| 37 | The new presumption of guilt is most explicit in the 1985 Wildlife and Countryside Act : ‘ If , in any proceedings for an offence , there is evidence from which it could reasonably be concluded that the accused was digging for a badger , he shall be presumed to have been digging for a badger unless the contrary is shown . ’ |
| 38 | A court would interpret such words in their natural manner which is objective , i.e. the Secretary of State could not simply rely upon his own subjective beliefs , but would have to point to some evidence from which it could reasonably be inferred that , for example , Napoleon was a person of hostile origin . |
| 39 | The exchange 's acquiescence in a practice which it could reasonably be expected to have been aware of could amount to a waiver or estoppel ; enough at any rate to deter the exchange from taking disciplinary action against members who have followed the particular practice . |
| 40 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 41 | Because we are actually spending a hundred pounds , and refurbishing it , when it 's ac which it could therefore be their , their entire responsibility . |
| 42 | He added , however , that his Ministry is looking into ways in which it could legally ban their importation . |
| 43 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 44 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 45 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 46 | The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority . |
| 47 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 48 | The third choice is for each house ( or pair of houses ) to have its own soakaway — this is simply a hole in the ground filled with bricks or rubble , into which the rainwater is taken and out of which it will slowly disperse . |
| 49 | Menlo Park , California-based Cisco Systems Inc wo n't be for too much longer : it has signed a lease agreement for a 46-acre site in northern San Jose , to which it will eventually move its headquarters . |
| 50 | ‘ Geomorphology is changing rapidly ; this book signposts one of the ways in which it will surely develop . ’ |
| 51 | If an issue of a government security is under-subscribed the Issue Department will purchase the remainder , which it will gradually sell to the public . |
| 52 | When the next phone call comes , which it will very shortly , you will ask for a copy of that day 's newspaper signed by your daughter . |
| 53 | Each department will be assigned a factor describing the risk of being unfairly sanctioned , which varies according to the numbers of studentships , which it will then combine with a measure assessing the department 's performance against a target rate of 70% submissions within four years ( for full-time students ) . |
| 54 | Each demonstration this week has shown an increase in confidence which it will now be very difficult to stop . |
| 55 | The Target , if part of a larger group , will have depended on the group for certain services ( such as accounting and computer services ) , which it will now have to provide for itself . |
| 56 | Its ‘ transcendence ’ marks the way in which it can similarly never be limited to a finite totality , nor , conversely , to an infinity : . |
| 57 | An explanation is given of the uses for which the module was designed and the ways in which it can best be used . |
| 58 | Not far up the road here is the town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre , a spa known to the Romans and envisaged by Napoleon I as the ‘ capital ’ of a Pyrenean confederation of health resorts — for a while it was given the title , which it can never have begun to merit , of ‘ the Athens of the Pyrenees ’ . |
| 59 | If LIFESPAN RDBI can not complete within the restricted time , it will stop at a sensible position from which it can subsequently restart . |
| 60 | The S-A-S , which is based at Hereford , is the only regiment in the British Army to receive the ’ Western Iraq ’ battle honour , which it can now display on its colours . |