Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've done most of them are I mean the wo certainly the ones on the little little boat trips and that , I mean , they have all it does is that it 'll tell you there 's some fish about , I mean , it does n't |
| 2 | The only certainty is that it 'll make Mr Morton a millionaire |
| 3 | All I would say , Jerry , is that it 'll have to come out of something like our carry forwards for this . |
| 4 | But perhaps the greatest fear about workfare is that it might reduce the political spur to create jobs and lead to an army of people working in poorly paid conditions . |
| 5 | We can only reach the conclusion — which will be noted by the further education sector in Scotland — that the reason behind the Government 's proposal for a further education funding council is that it might help the Bill 's passage . |
| 6 | One way to express the answer is that it might happen by ‘ chance ’ . |
| 7 | The danger of this approach is that it may give the erroneous impression that companies are constantly embroiled in internecine strife , and that investors and creditors are habitually maltreated by dishonest or incompetent company controllers . |
| 8 | The most serious consequence of this initiative is that it may threaten the diagnosis and treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 9 | Since manufacture always has to be practised upon materials , its first implication is that it may show signs of the constraints these materials bring to the technological process ( Gombrich 1979 : 63–94 ) . |
| 10 | Another criticism of this strategy is that it may result in widely varying control requirements and pollution control expenditures for competing companies in regions of differing air quality . |
| 11 | One is that it may weaken the marriage by suggesting a ‘ failure ’ on the part of the husband . |
| 12 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 13 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 14 | To at least some of its attackers this pattern must be intimidating and its value is that it may allow the cobra to repel its enemy without resorting to the use of its precious venom . |
| 15 | The real difficulty about this type of individual help is that it may provide immediate relief but not necessarily the understanding to cope with the same or similar situations in the future . |
| 16 | The difficulty with the argument is that it may provide a rogues ' charter . |
| 17 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 18 | Another disadvantage of this type of competition is that it may look just a little too difficult and thus put off some of the would-be entrants . |
| 19 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 20 | One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining , and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences . |
| 21 | Apart from issues of principle , perhaps the major practical objection put forward against charges is that it would lead to an increase in evasion ; the incentive to undertake development without applying for planning permission would rise in line with the rate of charge ( particularly for ‘ householder ’ types of development ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps the er chief of a Policy E two in an acceptable form is that it would give a clear signal to the district that it would not be appropriate to have a policy on rural diversification or in in development in the countryside more generally , which is stricter than Government guidance . |
| 23 | It was previously suggested that one reason attention focusing might actually impair recognition of non-risky junctions is that it would prevent subjects from attending to useful peripheral information . |
| 24 | What happens when the mass of the black hole eventually becomes extremely small is not quite clear , but the most reasonable guess is that it would disappear completely in a tremendous final burst of emission , equivalent to the explosion of millions of H-bombs . |
| 25 | One advantage of wind power is that it would tend to generate best when weather is bad which is also the time of peak need for electricity in many countries . |
| 26 | The obvious difficulty of having the same method of election for both Houses is that it would tend to produce a mirror image and devalue the House of Lords as a check . |
| 27 | Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary . |
| 28 | The one major drawback with this proposal to ‘ give Channel Four its freedom ’ is that it would make it compete with the existing ITV companies . |
| 29 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 30 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |