Example sentences of "[modal v] work [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram . |
| 2 | I thought this idea might work well if transposed to pressed flowers . |
| 3 | That offer is still open and I think it could work well if people could be bothered . |
| 4 | She did n't see why people were supposed to work hard if you ground their noses ; it seemed more likely that they 'd work hard if you promised to grind their noses if they did n't . |
| 5 | In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better . |
| 6 | Such a policy would work even if it were fully announced , provided that expectations were formed in the way we have assumed . |
| 7 | Such a policy would work even if , at the end of period 1 , it was perfectly predictable . |
| 8 | That is , whether spaced out advertising — the " drip " — over a long period would work better than heavy advertising , the " burst " , concentrated into a short space of time . |
| 9 | I decided that things would work better if I upgraded by adding a 1 Meg expanded memory board to give 2 Meg of RAM . |
| 10 | Can you just explain how that would work though 'cos we 're now erm , auditing by job , are n't we , and given I do n't know the audit timetable I ca n't visualise the effect this would have but it seems that one could be making a change 'cos a particular , a job 's been audited and it effects Q P1 , or something one month , and therefore you make changes to it and another job 's audited the second , another month , the second month and Q P1 needs changing again , and it , in terms of keeping our staff with us , it will be quite conf , I think it 's not terribly practical to keep having constant change . |
| 11 | The hints would work only if they were true both in fact and in fiction . |
| 12 | Whereas creating a rich peasant economy will work immediately cos that 's what a significant number of people in , in the countryside will actually go along with and want . |
| 13 | McGregor supported the ideas of Maslow about man 's hierarchy of needs , and suggested that a Theory X approach will work well where man is concerned with his physiological and safety needs . |
| 14 | A quick transition will work better than a slow one . |
| 15 | Few clients can afford to advertise throughout the year and media people have to judge whether a " drip " will work better than a " burst " . |
| 16 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 17 | This may be difficult at home but you will work better if you have a desk in a room where you can do uninterrupted work . |
| 18 | The Bill will work better if it is implemented properly , if there is access to training for all who want it , if there are flexible patterns of employment to enable nurses to stay in the work force following post-basic training and if community care — where they will be doing their work — is implemented and fully funded . |
| 19 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |
| 20 | Mr Pavlov said that the anti-crisis programme will work only if it is backed by all 15 republics . |
| 21 | But the deal will work only if enough creditors , in Mexico 's case 90% of them , agree to new — that is , worse — loan terms . |
| 22 | This plan will work only if Rupert Murdoch and BSkyB act fast to compensate the retail trade for their losses and obsolete stock . |
| 23 | Allowing doctors to choose whether to spend time in teaching , or research , or management will work only if all of the options are seen to be of equal importance . |
| 24 | But whatever scheme is eventually developed will work only if the values and compensation structure of business are drastically changed . |
| 25 | As with an unsigned contractual document , this method of incorporation will work only if at the time of making the contract the buyer actually knew of the existence of the terms or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring them to his attention . |
| 26 | It seems then that a Romalpa clause will , if properly worded , work in the case of unmixed goods and the proceeds of sale of unmixed goods , but that in the case of mixed goods ( and their proceeds of sale ) will work only if it is registered as a charge created by the buying company . |
| 27 | It is often difficult to predict which patients will be able to develop effective work skills , and some quite seriously disturbed people with persistently odd behaviour can work effectively while others with few overt symptoms of mental disorder may have great difficulties . |
| 28 | However , we can work fast when people are in a rush . ’ |
| 29 | Although this set-up can work well as it stands , a useful refinement is to add a means by which the level of the dub can be controlled manually . |
| 30 | sealed so that they can work even if follo |