Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ . |
2 | He probably is n't the only man in London with a cut on his face , but it 'll feel that way to him . |
3 | The Government says it 'll consider all responses to its proposals before they 're implemented . |
4 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
5 | It controls many trade unions including some of the big confederations , most notably the Shanghai General Labour Union , a sort of T U C really , erm for , do n't know whether it would bear much relation to the modern T U C in Britain , the erm , the sort of confederation uniting all of the unions in Shanghai , controlled by the Communist Party . |
6 | It would bring fewer gains to the likes of water companies , which suffer high rates of effective taxation through ACT because capital allowances reduce their mainstream tax bills . |
7 | Council leader John Williams said he fully supported the scheme and hoped it would attract more tourists to the area . |
8 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
9 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
10 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
11 | ‘ I would go myself if I thought it would serve any purpose to be killed before a blow had been struck . |
12 | If the city council was doing its job , it would put those resources to good use on behalf of the tenants . |
13 | In the first place , far from eliminating the kind of inter-party competition he believed to be the fatally debilitating flaw of liberal democracy , it would add another participant to the contest . |
14 | ‘ I do n't think it will make much difference to their day-to-day lives , ’ says Penny . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Having announced the thing way back in September 1989 , IBM Corp is finally promising to have a completed version of its AD/Cycle software engineering-based application development environment by the end of the year and ready to ship to end users by the middle of 1994 — although it will bear little resemblance to the 1989 conception . |
17 | In its structure , and in its management problems and concerns , it will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company , circa 1950 , which our textbooks still consider the norm . |
18 | This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped . |
19 | Whilst the law is designed to give succour in times of difficulty to those who do their best , it will show little mercy to those who are at the receiving end of proceedings who can not demonstrate that they have given the highest priority . |
20 | Salt has the effect of reducing the excretion of urine and as a bonus , it will go some way to controlling some of the parasites that your fish may have . |
21 | It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol . |
22 | It 's fairly peaceful and I do n't think it will pose any threat to the fish currently in your aquarium . |
23 | It will provide little help to many Tories , particularly in London , who will be fighting local elections next May . |
24 | If a government does not feel the reforms are its own , it will have little commitment to carrying them out . |
25 | Bull 's rebadged RS/6000s are claimed to be 5% cheaper than IBM 's — it will add more peripherals to leverage the mid-range market , it said . |