Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may all sound like some vague hippy philosophy but Levitation really believe what they say . |
| 2 | The argument is put forward that if a badger associates humans with food it may one day wander up to the wrong person , with fatal results . |
| 3 | It may misrepresent English and Irish experience to draw analogies between Spenser and current perspectives , but it equally is misplaced to deny that past and present discourses about Ireland possess noticeable similarities which have larger cultural consequences . |
| 4 | The real test for the polys will be what happens if the economy goes into recession , as it may next year , and unemployment rises again . |
| 5 | As soon as possible it should narrow sterling 's EMS band , from its current 6% on either side of the central rate to the 2.25% that is standard for other EMS members . |
| 6 | However the Village Association would be willing to subsidise it should other arrangements be made to continue . |
| 7 | It should all tastes — a good all rounder . |
| 8 | What a shame it must one day become reality — it will never match these views for charm and elegance . |
| 9 | But , on the contrary , it had been the beginning of the lifelong fight for Swift , because Jamie knew it might one day fall into his lap . |
| 10 | Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case . |
| 11 | A group of OSF/Motif suppliers are embarking on a process to keep the graphical user interface ‘ open ’ and allay end-user fears that it could one day be hijacked by an unscrupulous vendor and turned into a proprietary superset of interface characteristics . |
| 12 | Consultants claim it could double services between Queen Street and Waverley stations with a train leaving every fifteen minutes . |
| 13 | Consultants claim it could double services between the trwo cities . |
| 14 | Society itself and those who govern it need such understanding ; and in a democratic society this entails that the study of the humanities be widely spread , not confined to an élite of self-indulgers , the leather blotter-owning classes . |
| 15 | So , only if the trade union representatives were not , whether actually or in effect , appointed by the union or , if appointed by it were neither accountable to it nor liable to be dismissed by it would that difficulty be avoided , at least in principle . |
| 16 | Er says er it would that diamond tool were only sending dust copper dust . |
| 17 | The Ali Watch : how absurd that it would one day drop down here on a little hospital on Hilton Head Island , South Carolina . |
| 18 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
| 19 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |
| 20 | it would one job less to do . |
| 21 | An Observer sale would not make much of a dent but it would staunch losses Lonrho may no longer want to suffer . |
| 22 | Osaka , Japan-based Seiko Epson Co has started a new made-to-order personal computer business in the US : it will custom-build machines to customer specifications at a factory in Indiana , but production of high-grade machines at the Portland , Oregon , factory will be scaled down gradually from some 2,000 a month because of the weight of competition in the US market . |
| 23 | It wo n't happen overnight , but I can assure you it will one day . |
| 24 | He told a court in Seoul , South Korea : ‘ I 'm sorry the rapture did not come , but it will one day . ’ |
| 25 | If any party on the management committee does n't like the split it will five member it back through the whole structure to this county council and we shall have proceeded no further . |
| 26 | If this week 's launch is successful , it will double Astra 's capacity to 32 channels . |
| 27 | It will next time . ’ |
| 28 | Therefore , although hard work is necessary , slavishly following a " suggested regime " month after month hoping that it will some day " click " , may be ill-advised . |
| 29 | Among the RAF Trophy winners RAF Stornaway deserves a mention , it will this year receive the very handsome Sir Charles Wheeler Trophy for the ninth consecutive year — a record that will be hard to beat . |
| 30 | This did n't happen last year and I was cross it did n't but I 've organized it so that it will this year . |