Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where we were starting from and I think it would be valuable to do what we started doing and actually to look at this as the baseline and decide how we might amend it to keep common factors in that we can all use , because we need something that has a common denominator level |
| 2 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll let it go this time Gatesey , but one of these days I shall have to give you what I should have given you when we were kids . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All right , Michael , I 'll let it go this time . |
| 5 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 6 | The gardener wo n't like it , but I 'll say it has some kind of disease — ’ |
| 7 | I 'd like it to stay that way , do you hear ? |
| 8 | This photograph , this swipe of grain , so briefly glimpsed : I could tell it contained extraordinary information . |
| 9 | Other measures would involve more combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations , which , instead of discharging into the atmosphere the 60–70 per cent of the primary energy input which ends up as waste heat , would use it to provide hot water and heating in homes and commercial and industrial buildings ; and , of course , a switch from coal — which produces more carbon dioxide per ton than any other fuel — to nuclear , gas , oil and ‘ renewables ’ such as windfalls and tidal barrages . |
| 10 | The ministry source noted several possible scenarios , from the sale of individual divisions of Bull , which would enable it to eliminate unprofitable activities , to the taking on board of new investors , to the complete dismantling of the French computer maker . |
| 11 | North Korea was also believed to be constructing a nuclear reprocessing plant which would enable it to extract unused plutonium and uranium by-products from spent nuclear fuel rods . |
| 12 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 13 | At the summit meeting last month between Bill Clinton and Japan 's prime minister , Kiichi Miyazawa , America insisted that Japan should come up with specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets . |
| 14 | In January 1990 the government announced that a United States crop substitution aid package worth US$12,000,000 would allow it to eradicate 6,000 hectares of coca plants provided that foreign markets for substitute crops were provided . |
| 15 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 16 | IBM bought up the technology outright before going public on its agreement with Apple to ensure that no enterprising outfit could subsequently go off and get a licence from Interactive that would allow it to develop compatible versions of PowerOpen , AIX or even Pink . |
| 17 | Some would say it has derogatory connotations . |
| 18 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 19 | This is a bold manifesto and the APB will expect it to receive careful criticism from all interested parties . |
| 20 | Demand for the service is 25pc higher than expected and the company has bought a new aircraft which will enable it to run extra flights . |
| 21 | The company believes the strength of its Rosemary brand , plus the ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology installed at its new Bedworth plant , will enable it to achieve this aim . |
| 22 | Sarcasm does not become you , dear readers , but I will permit it to enter these columns on just this one occasion . |
| 23 | Even that implies payments of £500 million on 104 open syndicates and many will resist it given suspected irregularities . |
| 24 | Even that implies payments of £500 million on 104 open syndicates and many will resist it given suspected irregularities . |
| 25 | By cutting the stems back hard , you will encourage it to produce new shoots from low down . |
| 26 | The company calls the project its Infostructure Network , and it will involve it laying 7,000 miles of fibre this year alone , which it sees being used for home shopping services , software delivery , movie offerings and interactive educational programming as well as up to 500 television channels . |
| 27 | Birmingham city council says the tour will help it find new ways of dealing with racism . |
| 28 | If a horse is left unfed one day , it will feel the physical stress of lack of food and be hungry and lose condition , and it will also suffer anxiety caused by the hunger which will cause it to lose additional weight . |
| 29 | We will teach it to have all beauty , we will teach it that love is the most beautiful thing , and never need wax cold , as years go by . |
| 30 | Although you do not appear to feel the ardour which might be desirable so early in a marriage , you will find it has many rewards , I am sure . |