Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 2 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 3 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 4 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 5 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 6 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 7 | If management , as usually conceived , attempts to mediate this role it will either fail utterly because it will be excluded by the people involved , or it will have distorting effects which can only be dysfunctional . |
| 8 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 9 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |
| 10 | stuff , erm , I 'll I 've got a disk that does interesting little joined up lines , and there 's one where you can just put numbers in yourself and it 'll draw all sorts of pictures for you |
| 11 | It 's on the sixth of July and it 'll cost forty pounds . |
| 12 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 13 | And it 'll take six weeks before the plaster can come off this fox . |
| 14 | And it 'll take six weeks before the plaster can come off this fox . |
| 15 | Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us . |
| 16 | Written with refreshing vitality and , perhaps , missionary zeal , it will delight the converted , and it may attract physical geographers who are earnestly seeking new solutions to certain of their difficulties . |
| 17 | Although this may be a couple of years out of date , it only costs £3 and it may give some clues as to the strength of the company . |
| 18 | Furthermore , legislation frequently fails to achieve its objectives and it may have unintended consequences . |
| 19 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 20 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 21 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 22 | And that was one of the justifications of bringing it in , that it would raise a sense of er it would raise erm the actual percentage of people voting in elections and it would make local issues er more pertinent at local elections . |
| 23 | Teetotallers did not stop insisting on the primary importance of individual commitment but the change in attitude did begin to filter through Nonconformity as a whole and it would have long-lasting effects on attitudes towards the state . |
| 24 | Its surface area would dissipate heat continually at the same rate at which it exceeded ambient temperature , and it would need 8100 kilocalories of solar radiation in addition to its metabolic increment . |
| 25 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 26 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 27 | The 750 also has a larger bench surface , 29in long and 13in wide ( with the narrower , 4–3/4in jaw closed up to the wider 8–1/4in one ) and it will grip wider objects , as the vice jaws can be spaced further apart . |
| 28 | The implementation of Columbus will take time and it will involve major changes to the way in which we conduct our business . |
| 29 | ‘ The adverse trend in our diet since the war is only now being reversed , and it will require substantial changes in the food chain if healthy goals are to be met . |
| 30 | Attitudes in excess of this will cause the gyro to topple , and it will require several minutes to re-erect . |