Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement . |
| 2 | The military importance of the islands in safeguarding the Soviet fleet 's access to the Pacific , together with the potentially rich fishing rights , the past Soviet stance on the issue , and the precedent which it could set for those wishing to revise the Soviet Union 's post-1945 boundaries , were all cited as reasons for the Soviet government 's reluctance to surrender the territory . |
| 3 | Moore 's view is that this is because , although each individual component of the total consciousness has its own value , one which it could retain in other contexts , the consciousness as a whole has a further value . |
| 4 | Page 25 New dawn for Abtrust : Abtrust New Dawn Investment Trust is raising £18.9m through a placing and offer which it will invest in developing markets in the Far East . |
| 5 | In determining the prices which it will pay for residential care , Lothian Regional Council Social Work Committee has been guided by the following broad tenets : |
| 6 | Such relations occur in hierarchies , but for a proportional series all the structuring relations must be ‘ one-to-one ’ , that is to say , each relation must be such that for any element there is just one other element to which it can stand in that relation , and only the first element can stand in that relation to the second . |
| 7 | In pursuing this aim , IDB 's Marketing Development Division has a key role to play through the wide range of support which it can offer to all sizes of companies in Northern Ireland involved in manufacturing or providing internationally tradeable services . |
| 8 | They will have suggested topics which will bind the poor as a class together ; topics which will excite them against the rich ; topics the discussion of which in the only form in which that discussion reaches the ear will be to make them think that some new law can make them comfortable … — that Government has at its disposal an inexhaustible fund out of which it can give to those who now want without also creating elsewhere other and greater wants . |
| 9 | He points out that we need to distinguish between the contribution that research can make to policy and that which it can make to social work practice . |
| 10 | The government has a number of possible policy instruments which it can use for this purpose . |
| 11 | Through the information and insights which it can provide in these areas , linguistics can give important help to teachers in formulating appropriate teaching methods . |
| 12 | NT wo n't support SMP until version 2 , still some 18 months out in any case , and Microsoft has n't yet decided what it 'll do for that stuff yet . |
| 13 | This leaflet is intended to provide a concise overview of the 1992 process , focusing on what it might mean for local authorities . |
| 14 | The present American tendency is to ask what a country can now do for itself and for the United States , not what it might do in other circumstances , nor yet what it deserves . |
| 15 | My wife and I loved a challenge in those days and we could see what it might become with hard work , but it was a real challenge , no mistake . |
| 16 | If the Commons defence committee thinks the government may have gone too far in defence cuts , I wonder what it would make of Labour and Liberal Democrat policies . |
| 17 | We must now change gear somewhat , and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations . |
| 18 | If a bank 's core activities were ring-fenced by rules limiting what it could do with insured depositors ' money , its forays into securities , swaps and other financial markets need not threaten the banking system . |
| 19 | Sit down together and talk honestly about what 's happened , what it could involve in practical terms , what you 'll probably all have to do without . |
| 20 | It is possible that if a metaphor ceases to mean what it used to mean in another society then we should abandon it . |
| 21 | But Jerry Brookes of the Gloucestershire Badger Group has seen all too often what it can do to other animals . |
| 22 | see what it can do in that corner . |
| 23 | I use it only because of what it can become in later stages of evolution : the power of a snake 's fang , for instance , to propagate ( by its indirect consequences on snake survival ) DNA coding for fangs . |