Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If chain shot were capable of removing a ship 's rigging it should do the same for the jungle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He knew that whoever found it could rule the new world . |
| 5 | He says it 'll destroy the semi-rural environment we have here . |
| 6 | Sequent says it 'll add the user-level threads but wo n't touch desktop features which require things like VGA monitor drivers . |
| 7 | She says it 'll demoralise the older children . |
| 8 | The Government says it will use the new system to allocate resources to those councils with the worst housing problems . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co supporters club , the Precision RISC Organisation , says it will release the first PA RISC versions of its 88open-based testing tools by the third quarter of 1993 . |
| 10 | Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I hope it will do the same for you too . |
| 13 | ‘ I hope it will do the same in people 's homes and at other places of work . ’ |
| 14 | The ban will have no effect on the sale of propagated hybrid orchids , and botanists hope it will encourage the horticultural industry to switch from wild specimens to greenhouse-grown plants . |
| 15 | Constable reckons it will have the first UK-published book on the Waco disaster . |
| 16 | Not only were we not interested in how socialism was realized , we did n't believe it would make the slightest difference to the position of women even if it were . |
| 17 | Faith in reason and its ability to crack the code of the universe by discovering the scientific laws that sustain it will become the new legalism of the dawning secular age . |
| 18 | If such a flow exists it may assist the seaward movement of debris and hence contribute to the erosion of the coast . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) recently said to the House , rather chillingly , that if Labour were re-elected it would treat the national health service as it did last time . |
| 20 | This is difficult to explain since when a fully saturated complex is half dissociated it will have the same occupancy as a complex generated at half saturation . |
| 21 | There was no doubt that if it did spread to the nearest stack it would set the whole hayfield alight in a very short time . |
| 22 | Behind Psychic TV exists an occult , disparate breed of hipsters heavily into Gary Glitter , early Sabbath , Arthur Brown , Grateful Dead just because they know it would scandalize the prevailing arbiters of taste . |
| 23 | It 's the formula that succeeded for me , I know it will do the same for you . ’ |
| 24 | And if everything is expanding , at the same time , then relatively speaking it must remain the same size . |
| 25 | IBM Corp is also positioning PowerPC against Intel Corp 's Pentium , saying it will offer the same performance at a much lower cost . |
| 26 | It only has the force of a recommended practice whereas I believe it should have the full force of a standard , but at least it is there and perhaps in the fullness of time it may attain higher status . |
| 27 | On a proportional grid , we would have to draw this as an egg-shaped , so that when knitted it would appear the correct shape . |
| 28 | I reckon it must draw the little squirrely things to the monster . |
| 29 | In so far as literature would inevitably play a substantial part in any such course , the students reading it would learn the appropriate cultural codes rather than being expected to know them already . |
| 30 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |