Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planner was elevated to the role of a coordinating ‘ technician-craftsman ’ ; the practice of civic design as perceived by Holford would ‘ elevate the plan from technical , functional competence to the level at which it might cater for the cultural , emotional and aesthetic needs of a civilised society ’ ( Cherry and Penny , 1986 , p. 158 ) . |
| 2 | The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages . |
| 3 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
| 4 | Cobden-Sanderson quarrelled with Emery Walker and , through the mediation of Sydney Cockerell , came to an agreement that Cobden-Sanderson should retain the Doves type for his lifetime , after which it should pass to the younger man . |
| 5 | And I do n't think there is any realistic way in which it could cope with the flows of a fourteen hundred dwelling new settlement . |
| 6 | According to Neuron Data , IBM will be using Open Interface to develop front-ends for software which it will offer across a range of platforms , including AIX , OS/2 , Windows NT and Macintosh . |
| 7 | This leaves the vine curled in a heap , a condition in which it will remain until the January or February pruning when all but the one-year-old growth is either cut away or buried for advancing into new vines . |
| 8 | In the final analysis it really is up to the planning officers and the planning committee to decide whether the benefits which it will bring to the locality outweigh the objectors ' views . |
| 9 | It will use local natural gas as a feedstock which it will use for the production of syn-gas , methanol and then petrol . |
| 10 | SunSolutions has some other workgroup conferencing packages in the works which it will reveal in a couple of months . |
| 11 | SunSolutions has some other workgroup conferencing packages in the works which it will reveal in a couple of months . |
| 12 | Softool Corp , Goleta , California , has released version 2.0 of its C/Manager change and configuration management tool for software development , which it will target at the Unix community : it is available initially on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , and MS-DOS and other Unix versions will follow , the company says ; prices start at $16,000 . |
| 13 | Softool Corp , Goleta , California , has released version 2.0 of its CCC/Manager change and configuration management tool for software development , which it will target at the Unix community . |
| 14 | BHC has spent about £1 million directly on developing the AP 1–88 , in addition to the BTG grant ( which it will repay from a levy on sales ) . |
| 15 | To what then is the human psychobiological system adapted and what are the limits to which it can adjust without an excessive strain leading ultimately to reduced reproductive ability ? |
| 16 | The endemic Hong Kong cascade frog has evolved suction pads on the end of each toe with which it can cling to the slippery rocks when the flash-floods strike . |
| 17 | Third , the state has its own historically developed ‘ interests ’ which it can express to a greater or lesser degree depending on the balance of external class forces and their forms of representation within the state . |
| 18 | Does such a fictitious person have a reputation which it can protect by the law of defamation ? |
| 19 | In uncluttered water , these discharges create a symmetrical electric field around the fish which it can sense with a series of receptors in its skin . |
| 20 | Thus Moore 's methodology points inevitably to his main ethical conclusion , which is that nothing , or at least very little , is to any great degree good except for cases of personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects and that everything in life which does not come under these heads has barely any value apart from whatever it may have as a means of promoting these great goods . |
| 21 | ‘ One moment , ’ the Maître d'Hôtel said , ‘ while I check , ’ and Lucy was pretty sure that whatever it might say on the reservations list , no booking in the name of Wingate was about to be found . |
| 22 | To go onstage in the flag is to be a 50p magnet , no matter what it might mean in an ideal world . |
| 23 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 24 | God knows what it would do to the inside of anyone 's stomach . |
| 25 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |
| 26 | This uncertainty principle of Heisenberg showed that one could not measure the state of a system exactly , so one could not predict exactly what it would do in the future . |
| 27 | Tap the tiling at intervals to see if it is hollow , and make a note of any work that you would need to carry out , guessing what it would cost to the nearest £100 . |
| 28 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ See what it would cost for a couple of places on her ? ’ |
| 30 | In order to make appeal to this methodology , which is very commonly used in linguistic and philosophical discussion , we need to know what it would mean for the context to be ‘ slightly different ’ . |