Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] [verb] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of common law , if the purchaser receives information relating to the vendor 's business which he knows or ought to know is confidential , the purchaser is under a duty to maintain the confidence and not to use the information . |
| 2 | essentially we work with the same material , the only thing that might change is the part where I slide withg my hands down a rope . |
| 3 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 4 | I am short-sighted , and I 'm sure that when war breaks out , the first thing that 'll happen is that my glasses will break . |
| 5 | The worst that could happen is for someone to suggest a ‘ magic ’ solution . |
| 6 | So the first thing that happens is data gets er , imported into the spreadsheet here , and second thing that could happen is er , the unwanted records get deleted . |
| 7 | No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount . |
| 8 | What we need , says Freud , is a sure foundation for social order , and the only foundation that will do is , is reality . |
| 9 | And the only English person to win that will back is somebody . |
| 10 | If you make an error in a project powered from a PP3 size 9 volt battery , about the worst that will happen is that one or two semiconductors will be destroyed . |
| 11 | The only aspect of the contract that can vary is the price at which the exchange is made , which is determined at the time of the transaction . |
| 12 | The sort of liability that can arise is often unforeseeable and can be expensive . |
| 13 | One problem that can arise is that of a particular school being full and so unable to accommodate the newly arrived expatriate 's children . |
| 14 | Criminally negligent directors in the UK are not sent to prison as in other countries — the worst that can happen is a fine — and even that can be insured against and paid by the company . |
| 15 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 16 | That way the worst that can happen is you will miss a turn . |
| 17 | The worst that can happen is that its domain of applicability becomes circumscribed . |
| 18 | Very little mess occurs , about the worst that can happen is that the jet gets clogged causing the ink drops to get oversized or the reservoir is removed without being capped . |
| 19 | The worst thing that can happen is for the boat to become totally inverted and here you need to slide the daggerboard quickly out before it drops through the hull . |
| 20 | The max value em So the max value , if there 's a positive correlation , if there 's an ideal perfect correlation between X and Y , the maximum value of this standard score X times standard score Y , the maximum value that can take is N minus one , right ? |
| 21 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 22 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 23 | What the state can and should do is make sure that tax does not distort the choices involved . |
| 24 | What this implies and should express is the field-worker 's moral commitment to his foreign hosts ; this can be the source of much personal anguish and heart-searching . |
| 25 | But what it can and will do is bring a literary perspective to sport , by encouraging gifted writers to go one-on-one against our most intriguing winners and losers . |
| 26 | The trouble is British Coal may already be contractually too far advanced ; what we can and will do is stop them extending the scheme , not by planning , but by policy making . |
| 27 | Another reason for norm-referenced tests not providing a description of what a pupil knows and can do is the lack of clear specification of learning objectives , at least as far as the formulation of pupil performance on the test is concerned . |
| 28 | That certain types of knowledge can be applied effectively in so many different contexts and can endure is a challenge for the sociology of knowledge . |