Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principle of salvation may be theological , as in the case of religious fundamentalism ; or it may be purely secular , as with ethnic nationalism ; or it may involve some combination of the two . |
| 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 | The classification may be an organizational one , arranging detailed criteria into lists , or it may represent some kind of conceptual hierarchy of increasingly higher order objectives . |
| 4 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 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 | 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 |
| 7 | And it 'll save that corner , it 'll make it look nice . |
| 8 | Although this may be a couple of years out of date , it only costs £3 and it may give some clues as to the strength of the company . |
| 9 | The process can be speeded up somewhat by changing the blotting paper several times while the flowers are being pressed , although you must be extremely careful as the plants will be exceptionally fragile at this point and it may do more harm than good to disturb them . |
| 10 | Boston-based Ares Software Corp is hoping to licence its FontChameleon technology to operating system designers , application developers and printer manufacturers , and it may have some success since FontChameleon is supposedly compatible with existing PostScript and TrueType standards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is a mistake to be too ambitious to begin with , for when 50 or so near maturity they will require lots of food and it may take some gathering . |
| 13 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 17 | misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It would not be of much help to him , and it would alert any intruder that he was on his way . |
| 20 | Use the cotton towel provided and it will absorb this dirt . |
| 21 | It will normally make an identical claim against the other member with whom it dealt — ie , against the selling member if , as one might perhaps expect , the claim against LCH is made by a buying member — and it will refer that claim to arbitration . |
| 22 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 23 | Compare this with the value of £100,000,000 netted in 1985 , which included 317kg. of heroin and it will give some idea of the growth rate and size of the problem we were tackling . |
| 24 | Attitudes in excess of this will cause the gyro to topple , and it will require several minutes to re-erect . |
| 25 | The idea is a strange one and it will require some preliminaries before it can be explained . |
| 26 | Unemployment traditionally lags other economic indicators in a recovery and it will take some time before firms feel sure enough of the trend to consider expanding workforces again . |
| 27 | A successful program of this type is no more than a computerization of traditional classroom method , and it will teach most children effectively , with the added advantages of constant individual attention and limitless patience . |
| 28 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 29 | Of the Unionist press , only the Daily Telegraph supported the coalition , and it could make little head against such a tide . |
| 30 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc is expected to be able to produce up to 600,000 Am486 chips this year , and it could produce some 4m — where Intel Corp is expected to produce some 26m 80486 chips this year and another 31m of the things in 1994 . |