Example sentences of "and it [modal v] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this may be a couple of years out of date , it only costs £3 and it may give some clues as to the strength of the company . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The idea is a strange one and it will require some preliminaries before it can be explained . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This bringing of the people of God back to personal thankfulness for their place in Christ is one of the vital functions of worship , and it can take some time . |
| 11 | When friends fall out the mess can be considerable and it can take some time for the wounds to heal . |