Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 2 | Repeated suggestions that the Mafia was behind extortion rackets on the island , sheltering behind Italian business investments , were reported to have prompted a declaration by the separatist National Front for the Liberation of Corsica ( FNLC ) that it would in future " intervene militarily " to halt Mafia activity . |
| 3 | And , above all , what does it mean to let faith be faith to such an extent that it will in turn let God be God ? |
| 4 | This means that it will in practice terminate at the earlier of ( i ) the next AGM of the company and ( ii ) the expiry of 12 months after the passing of the resolution . |
| 5 | The US airline Pan American , which had filed in January for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code [ see p. 37953 ] , saw its prospects improve with an acceptance by the United Kingdom government ( confirmed on March 11 ) that it could in effect sell its rights to routes into London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines for $290,000,000 ; United began its Heathrow services on April 5 . |
| 6 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 7 | There were several reasons why Adenauer pursued such a line of argument : it might be a way of helping the new West German state to achieve equality in the international order ; it might placate West German annoyance over the role of the International Ruhr Authority ; and it might in time offer an opportunity for West Germany to regain sovereignty of the coal and steel producing Saar , which still remained in French hands . |
| 8 | This is often regarded as a minor energy consumer , but it may in fact represent a significant proportion of the total electrical load in a laboratory . |
| 9 | This would not end the wars , but it would in effect be a declaration from the Israelis announcing that whilst they intend to fight to keep the disputed territory , they are nevertheless admitting that their right to it is no different from that of anyone else , and until the world produces some better way than fighting , this is how they will-operate . |
| 10 | It addresses the question whether it would in fact pay us to do the right thing . |
| 11 | Years of scholarship and so many contentious performances mean that the character is now regarded as ‘ difficult ’ , when it can in fact benefit from the freshness and vitality of the natural actor , who will quickly find the comic qualities of the man as well as his serious side . |
| 12 | If on the other hand , the colony gets too cold , as it may in winter , the workers eat honey and use its energy to vibrate their flight muscles within their thorax without moving their wings , so generating body heat . |
| 13 | The form can be made more flexible in English , ( the translator of Bashó0 has bent the rules considerably ) because it does not possess the same internal formal necessity as it would in Japanese , but try to stick roughly to the proposed number of syllables . |
| 14 | ‘ Face-on ’ display is the method or arranging books so that the dust jacket is seen face-on as it would in bookshop display . |
| 15 | You could move the more aggressive fish to a separate tank — or even the breeding trap — and return it to the main aquarium a few days later , when it will be unlikely to go on the attack , as it will in effect , be the ‘ new fish ’ . |
| 16 | A board of directors could not exist and act as a corporate entity if it were composed of two groups of people , each deriving its authority from and answerable to a different principal body , the one liable to be in conflict with the other ; for it would in fact be a negotiating committee . |