Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tribunal may reserve its judgement or may give its decision after a retirement before the close of the meeting . |
| 2 | I do not believe that Scotland can or should avoid its international obligations , but I object to the fact that we are apparently being singled out as the one country that will be the nuclear laundry for everyone else . |
| 3 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 4 | Its 113-TPS U6000/65 multiprocessor will be upgraded to an enhanced 100MHz 80486 chip in the fourth quarter that should triple its speed while memory is expanded from 256Mb to 512Mb . |
| 5 | Its 113-TPS U6000/65 multiprocessor will be upgraded to an enhanced 100MHz 80486 chip in the fourth quarter that should triple its speed while memory is expanded from 256Mb to 512Mb . |
| 6 | The third week in May has been earmarked by Hewlett-Packard for the launch of a new addition to its top-end HP 9000 RISC server line that should boost its performance range up to the mainframe level . |
| 7 | However , it would be able to make use of an extended pension fund holiday that should boost its profits . ’ |
| 8 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 9 | Jovellanos regarded rent control as useless and an evil in itself ; he considered land as a commodity that must find its natural price in the open market and held that it was ‘ vanity ’ to try to protect peasants from the effects of economic laws . |
| 10 | Reports in mid-June said that a group of religious conservatives , including the country 's most senior religious figure , Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Baz , had signed a 12-point petition in late April asking King Fahd to create a " consultative council " to deal with " internal and external affairs " [ see also p. 38166 ] , which should be free of " any pressure that might affect its responsibilities " . |
| 11 | CSM fears to take the first step that might disrupt its partnership with industry . |
| 12 | The court said that to import proportionality would ‘ create a monster that could quickly get out of control and cause widespread disruption of the many administrative processes that might attract its application ’ . |
| 13 | Secondly , the unique position of the sole practitioner in the network of legal services countrywide was often invoked to dampen enthusiasm for the imposition of restrictions on sole practice that might undermine its commercial viability . |
| 14 | Intel Corp is said to be talking eagerly to anyone with cooling technology that could prevent its Pentiums turning personal computers into desktop microwave ovens . |
| 15 | ONE OF Britain 's most successful offshore construction yards is in with a good chance of winning a major order that could secure its future for a year . |
| 16 | At this point in the exercise , the use of the instruments had revealed a number of factors in terms of the requirements of the IPS , and the problems that could affect its implementation and effectiveness . |
| 17 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 18 | The industry howls , then writes its own code to pre-empt any that could change its marketing practices . |
| 19 | Resolution 45/63 expressed concern at Israel 's continuing nuclear build-up and urged all states " not to co-operate with or give assistance to Israel that could enhance its nuclear weapons capability " . |
| 20 | The attractive Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire , for instance , faces a cluster of proposals that could devastate its countryside and culture . |
| 21 | Anderson was unique , brought in to fill two vital functions : the need for a medic , and the need to give G9 something special , some angle that would disguise its true nature , an extraordinary elite fighting group trained for any emergency . |
| 22 | The Policyholder may claim a constructive total loss when the subject matter of insurance is reasonably abandoned to the Insurer on the account of its actual total loss appearing to be unavoidable or because it could not be preserved from such actual total loss without an expenditure that would exceed its value when recovered/repaired . |
| 23 | Coppola may not have provided the definitive film of the Vietnam War , but he succeeded in providing ‘ a film experience that would give its audience a sense of the horror , the madness , the sensuousness and the moral dilemma of Vietnam ’ . |
| 24 | LWT , whose market share is under attack , may find it hard to maintain the 40 per cent return on capital that would make its share incentive scheme worthwhile to the managers . |
| 25 | She had described the dress to them , haltingly , trying to make her account amusing , searching desperately for a tone that would make its existence plain and casual and innocent to them , but she had not quite attained it ; " My cousin Mavis , " she had said , laughing . |
| 26 | He demanded top cabinet posts for UNITA and a form of ‘ decentralisation ’ that would assure its dominance in the provinces . |
| 27 | One of the four diesel generators that would power its computer controls in the event of a blackout was also out of service and the reactor was threatened with shut-down . |
| 28 | This in turn implied that the transition period was now viewed , not as a relatively short , chaotic time , but as an epoch that would develop its own laws of equilibrium . |
| 29 | While some British officials were interested in the Schuman Plan , the Labour Party rejected it as something that would limit its ability to strive for democratic Socialism in Britain ‘ and to apply the economic controls necessary to achieve it ’ . |
| 30 | The federal government is proposing changes in the nuclear energy law that would remove its obligation to subsidize the development of nuclear power . |