Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I had expected it would take a little while just to organise your thoughts . ’ |
2 | They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation . |
3 | When the final group of houses is occupied it will have a total population in the region of ten thousand . |
4 | Labour supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
5 | The Labour Pary supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor-racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
6 | This new ad had barely been launched before it came under attack from drink-driving campaigners who say it will miss the very people it is aimed at — because they will be at the pub . |
7 | Chicago-based VideOcart Inc say it will undergo a corporate restructuring that includes reducing its payroll by about 15% and realigning its executive office . |
8 | There are plans for an event at the site next year , but organisers say it will take a different form . |
9 | As the core cooled it would form a solid outer shell , and as this shell further cooled through the Curie temperature it could retain today the magnetic field of the remnant liquid iron core within it . |
10 | Once this is resolved it might become a major source of LDC finance in the future . |
11 | He knew that whoever found it could rule the new world . |
12 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
13 | I knew MPs who could n't sleep at night because they were going through lobbies voting against their consciences for the Gulf war — to kill 100,000 people — because they believed it would help a Labour victory . |
14 | If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame . |
15 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
16 | It showed 42 per cent believed it could prove a useful catalyst for improving social conditions with 45 per cent against . |
17 | The club 's facing opposition from residents living near the site and a council , which says it would devastate a green belt area . |
18 | He says it 'll destroy the semi-rural environment we have here . |
19 | Sequent says it 'll add the user-level threads but wo n't touch desktop features which require things like VGA monitor drivers . |
20 | To start the ball rolling it says it 'll have a new API for TCP/IP defined by year-end — there is n't one at present — with interface and desktop extensions to follow early in 1993 . |
21 | And DEC says it 'll launch an Alpha-based Pixel Graphics subsystem in the next couple of months . |
22 | A construction company says it may sue a local authority which is trying to prevent its demolishing a hotel . |
23 | The selling agent , Ellis ( 01-706 0844 ) , says it can arrange a Swiss mortgage to finance up to 60 per cent of the purchase price of the property — but remember that if you borrow in Swiss francs and the pound falls against the Swiss currency , the amount and cost of your mortgage could rise . |
24 | → If you buy something which says it will do a particular job then it must be fit for the purpose . |
25 | By this summer the company says it will have a full authoring package that will combine a frame grabber board with the compression software . |
26 | The Government says it will use the new system to allocate resources to those councils with the worst housing problems . |
27 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |
28 | Hewlett-Packard Co says it will launch a new range of PA RISC-based servers to its HP 3000/800 and 9000/8000 family of systems next month . |
29 | As of last week , all SCO engineers still assigned to the MIPS project — a paltry few by SCO 's own count — were redeployed to Intel development , now at least 150 strong , though SCO says it will attend the periodic meetings of ACE 's recently established executive board . |
30 | He says it could mean an extra 15 to 20 pence a week . |