Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 2 | If the food is not being passed , it may pay to examine a fish to make sure the gut is not congested . |
| 3 | But it may have to do a lot more than talk . |
| 4 | It may help to keep a ball of used fluid , like a rubber , and use it to roll over the fluid to be lifted . |
| 5 | Where it knows that it will suffer increases in its costs , it may wish to use a model to predict what will be the effect of a series of increasingly large price rises upon its sales . |
| 6 | It should aim to free a child from the chains of his environment . |
| 7 | As part of the process of clarifying what might be meant by brainwashing , I proposed a working definition of what it might mean to make a choice : |
| 8 | The textile company , Ingham , confirmed it was having talks on a possible acquisition , but stressed that , if they were successful , it might have to launch a share issue . |
| 9 | The obvious difficulty of having the same method of election for both Houses is that it would tend to produce a mirror image and devalue the House of Lords as a check . |
| 10 | It is often difficult to match a covered lampshade to your own furnishing fabrics , in which case it would pay to buy a frame , then cover it yourself . |
| 11 | I do n't think she has the faintest idea what it would mean to marry a chap without private means , and if she did , I 'm afraid she 'd change her mind . ’ |
| 12 | In one case , the court indicated that it would intervene to prevent a breach by the visitor of the rules of natural justice : see Bently v. Bishop of Ely ( 1729 ) 1 Barn.K.B. 192 . |
| 13 | If the diagram were complete , it would have to include a call for further , perhaps broader , correlations , logically linked into a bundle but not different in kind . |
| 14 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
| 15 | It will continue to run a business travel operation . |
| 16 | In flat calm conditions , this effect can be clearly seen , since the exhaust smoke will be observed to be blown away from the model by the rotors when out of ground effect ( Fig.5.6 ) , while it will tend to form a cloud under the helicopter , or even ‘ leak ’ up through the middle of the rotors , when in ground effect ( Fig. 5. 7 ) . |
| 17 | On large jobs , it will pay to have a pipe bending machine ; this will repay its hiring cost in terms of the number of elbow fittings you will no longer need . |
| 18 | It will aim to provide a focus in Scotland for European links with further and higher education and industry by providing : |
| 19 | The Delta is the easiest to make and it will need to have a base span of 8ft ( 2500mm ) or more . |
| 20 | It will need to have a ledge to support the reading material and strong clamps to hold pages in place are useful . |
| 21 | The space will charge an admission fee , unlike the galleries in the surrounding neighbourhood , and it will attempt to assemble a membership entitling guests to special privileges in the four-story , 30,000-square-foot site . |
| 22 | However , the prospect of terms passing backwards and forwards ad infinitum is unrealistic ; a sensible course would be for the business to decide that once a certain stage is reached , it will attempt to negotiate a compromise , for instance , a seller might decide to negotiate with customers who " reject " terms in a delivery note . |
| 23 | It is obviously an obscure word , but we think it will help to develop a handhold on a specific truth . |
| 24 | WITH its every utterance the board down at Feethams is approaching the moment when it will have to give a vote of confidence to its manager . |
| 25 | It will have to compile a list or a register , so the idea that the council tax will not need a register is a complete fiction . |
| 26 | A cookie war on both sides of the Atlantic has kept UB on its toes and it will have to move a bit quicker if it wants to keep its investors satisfied . |
| 27 | The company expects to ship hundreds of thousands of Am486 parts this year and according to vice-president Robert McConnell , the company can expect about a 5% market share this year within its capacity limits , and that to boost market share it will have to find a partner . |
| 28 | Certainly , if the creative team has strong views on which medium to use , and can justify this by demonstrating a really effective approach using that medium , it can help to cut a lot of corners . |
| 29 | It can help to provide a picture of the typical development of language skills during childhood and adolescence , so that teachers can recognise more reliably disturbances that occur . |
| 30 | In addition we hope that the conference proves to be the beginning rather than the end of a process — that it can begin to provide a mechanism which we believe is sorely missing from current schemes , namely , popular accountability . |