Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it could lead to a melt-down more serious than that at Three Mile Island in 1979 . |
| 2 | There 's a move to slow them down , but the hauliers say it could lead to a very dangerous situation . |
| 3 | Critics say it should concentrate on a less exclusive market . |
| 4 | It says it may switch to a RISC microprocessor in future iterations of what is becoming an extremely popular product on the OEM market . |
| 5 | The Colorado-based Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund , which finances the centre , says it will wait for a ceasefire before attempting to resume research at Karisoke . |
| 6 | Mills and Poole hope it will lead to a re-trial . |
| 7 | You wait it 'll come in a minute can hear the bloody television , it 's true though , if we did n't have our television on , all we 'd listen to is theirs in n it ? |
| 8 | Yesterday , the Latvian parliament confirmed it would stick to a plan to introduce minimum five and 10-year residence requirements for candidates wishing to stand in local and republican elections . |
| 9 | Yesterday , the Latvian parliament confirmed it would stick to a plan to introduce minimum five and 10-year residence requirements for candidates wishing to stand in local and republican elections . |
| 10 | I rather suspect it could lead to a lot of foul-hooked fish , which is another thing I deplore when done deliberately . |
| 11 | We have already noted how deviance is amplified upon the application of the gouger typification , so that the failure to apply it can result in a dissipation of deviance and an attempt to normalize the behaviour . |
| 12 | To change to a left handed helix it must pass through a fourth dimension . |
| 13 | I know it will hurt for a little while , but I 'll get better , so why worry ? |
| 14 | ‘ I know it must come as a shock to you . |
| 15 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 16 | Michael Latham , an executive member of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs and a former director of the Housebuilders ' Federation , condemned the rise as unnecessary and warned it could lead to a recession . |
| 17 | I suppose it could sound like a conscious courtesy — an agreeable gesture , but hardly one denoting that love has roots below the gum of consciousness . |
| 18 | Though it is a sensitive plant , it is quite a good one to grow , as once established it will develop into a sturdy cluster which will last for many years . |
| 19 | Yet in the 1960S some members of the credit industry had feared it would grind to a halt unless they could threaten promise-breakers with prison . |
| 20 | Experts claim it will lead to a fares war . |
| 21 | And he hopes it will lead to a full-time soccer comeback — as a physio at a top club . |
| 22 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 23 | Several people have been whispering in my ear lately about Michael 's drug-taking ; I knew it would come to a head sooner or later . ’ |
| 24 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 25 | The gentleman in question did exhibit a certain alarm because when I told him why I was looking at his land he thought it might lead to a conservation order being slapped on it . |
| 26 | They hope to sell the house as soon as possible but did not think it would go to a Vic Reeves fan . |
| 27 | The Baltic lay becalmed that day , yet left no doubt that when aroused it could rage like a maddened beast . |
| 28 | It rarely speaks , though if frightened it may bleat like a goat . |
| 29 | Ironically it was the former Labour prime minister Clement Attlee who persuaded Parliament to spend £2 million for a new royal yacht , claiming it would double as a hospital ship in war time . |
| 30 | Many of those who constitute it would adhere to a world-renouncing ethnic based on a doctrine of separation from the world . |