Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is primarily an issue of construction but it may involve also a question as to how far , if at all , the powers of the court in respect of litigation costs can curtail a contractual right of recovery . |
| 2 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You can use preservative-treated softwood , and if you also treat all the cut ends and joints with preservative , it should last quite a long time . |
| 5 | But er it should take about an hour , hour and a half . |
| 6 | It must remain entirely a matter for the discretion of the prosecuting authorities as to whether they are in a position to and are prepared to give an assurance . |
| 7 | I think , I think it think it must cut quite a lot because I mean there 's certain I do n't these biological constraints . |
| 8 | On the other hand , as r increases , the potential energy does not increase without limit ; it must approach asymptotically a finite value , the dissociation energy . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman says that that helps nobody , but it costs £400 million a year , so it must help rather a lot of people . |
| 10 | In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis . |
| 11 | It might take just a decision for St Albans oldest of the country by having changed the word received to . |
| 12 | That 's why the new podiatry surgery centre at Burghill near Hereford is seen as a success ; it 'll handle around a thousand patients a year , patients who could otherwise spend years on the waiting list . |
| 13 | It 'll need quite a sizable house to take the Maxwell bed . |
| 14 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 15 | Informix says it 'll take around a year to productise SNI 's data dictionary , even though ERMS is already implemented for versions of the database which SNI supplies to customers under an existing marketing agreement the two have . |
| 16 | It 'll take around a year to see if the drug does help reduce the side effects of radiotherapy . |
| 17 | If they lose , it 'll take about a year to recover the cost of the inquiry in 6 penny tolls . |
| 18 | ‘ It 'll take about an hour and a half . |
| 19 | ‘ It could tell quite a story , that pool , ’ said Robins . |
| 20 | In some places , it could take only a small shift to bring socialists back to power . |
| 21 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 23 | Fine , well I am sure it would make quite a good essay . |
| 24 | He asked if I had enough of those for a whole album , because he felt it would make quite an original debut , to do only music taken from other instruments , rather than something from the standard guitar repertoire . |
| 25 | In reality , it would mean just a rise of nought point two percent on overall costs . |
| 26 | It would meet once a month , and its mandate would extend until December 1993 . |
| 27 | It would meet twice a year , but working staff groups would have regular consultations . |
| 28 | ‘ It would cost about a hundred and twenty dollars at least . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It would let loose a ravening horde of hangdog malcontents , dull-witted levellers , disaffected schoolmasters and foaming radicals pell-mell across the country , to the final destruction of that sacred principle of private property which is the sole ultimate safeguard of decency and good order . |
| 30 | If only five per cent of car journeys were made by bus or train instead it would save over a quarter of a million tonnes ' worth of pollutant each year . |