Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change . |
| 32 | It must also confirm that a suitable waste disposal facility will accept the shipment . |
| 33 | If a government wants to impose standards for the efficiency of new buildings , then it must also ensure that the materials are available , and that people are trained to use them . |
| 34 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 35 | It might also suggest that if fat people have psychological problems , these may well be a result of the obesity , or at most a contributory factor . |
| 36 | And although a green glow that is weaker than it ought to be might mean that some of the cells in the area are turning malignant , it might also mean that the operator has the end of the bronchoscope too far from the target , or pointing at an awkward angle . |
| 37 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 38 | It might even mean that the personnel records and salaries systems could be cost justified largely on the basis of savings in the recruitment area . |
| 39 | It might even suggest that perhaps Lady Thatcher did , after all , have a point when she despaired of public transport . |
| 40 | From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society . |
| 41 | It might therefore seem that the best , and the only rational , solution is to abandon all references to identity in connection with meaning . |
| 42 | In a highly competitive market the returns would be a satisfactory performance measure ; for a monopolist it might merely reflect that any inefficiencies in service have been passed on to the customers who have no choice but to pay the higher prices . |
| 43 | It could also ensure that allegations of torture , rape and deaths in custody are impartially investigated , that those responsible are brought to justice and that the victims and their families are compensated . |
| 44 | The sentence ‘ We have only shown that A is justified if B and C are ’ could mean , as was pretended above , that we have shown A 's justification to be conditional on that of B and C ; but it could also mean that if B and C are in fact justified , we have shown that A is , i.e. that the success of our demonstration is conditional , not the justification we have demonstrated . |
| 45 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 46 | It could also indicate that there is uncertainty about Reilly 's support team , which consists principally of Les Bettinson , the manager , and Phil Larder , the national director of coaching . |
| 47 | It could also indicate that there is uncertainty about Reilly 's support team , which consists principally of Les Bettinson , the manager , and Phil Larder , the national director of coaching . |
| 48 | It could also indicate that you have reached the end of the road with one enterprise . |
| 49 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 50 | Once or twice lately he 's mentioned the possibility that he might ‘ change his way of life ’ which could mean that he intended to get married , but with Francis it could equally mean that he was thinking of taking up golf or ludo . ’ |
| 51 | In that case it is all one operation , and it could not matter that he wrote his signature on the document before the dispositive wording of the will . |
| 52 | Bartholomew was the most senior US official to visit Pakistan since October 1990 when the US Congress suspended economic and military assistance to Pakistan after it could not certify that Pakistan had no nuclear weapons programme . |
| 53 | A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " . |
| 54 | This may not help the market go up , but it could well ensure that any setback is only modest , ’ says Mr Tora . |
| 55 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 56 | Of course , it could simply mean that winter foetuses might not get the same diet as others . |
| 57 | If it did not , it could always argue that many more children would be withdrawn from school altogether . |
| 58 | If the DEA had used it to provide a cover identity for somebody in Egypt , it could hardly admit that in open court or explain how it had come by the certificate in the first place . |
| 59 | He said it would be a mistake , ‘ a mistake in sentiment ; for it could only mean that we were embalming the corpse of something that is n't really dead and need n't die at all — an aesthetic mistake — because we do n't really want to have the taste of our schooldays established as a boundary for our whole lives ’ . |
| 60 | If the horse had been doped , it could only mean that someone in Bill 's yard had been involved . |