Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 2 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 3 | If the wood is very badly stained , it may require two applications of bleach . |
| 4 | It should cover three weeks at a time , with allowance for holiday and sick leave . |
| 5 | It should take 23 weeks for all 23 goals to be accomplished . |
| 6 | It should produce 5000 tonnes of the metal per year . |
| 7 | Every round the tongue regenerates fully ; it must suffer 8 Wounds in a single round before it is put out of action for good . |
| 8 | If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments . |
| 9 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 10 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 11 | It 'll take five weeks for the shipment to get to Japan . |
| 12 | Once Dai succeeded in getting Bernard 's semi-automatic printer in full working order it could produce 5,000 metres of cloth per week . |
| 13 | Similarly , in 1979–80 , it used to take 13.2 hours for a man to produce a ton of steel . |
| 14 | The Rome-based World Food Programme ( WFP ) announced that it would allocate 31,000 tonnes of food for refugees , while France , Japan and Argentina undertook to provide aircraft to help evacuate refugees and distribute relief supplies . |
| 15 | On Aug. 3 the European Commission announced that it would send 10,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to Somalia to support the work of the ICRC in Somalia . |
| 16 | The European Commission announced on Sept. 3 that it would buy 45,000 tonnes of surplus Hungarian wheat for transportation to Albania by rail in December . |
| 17 | It would buy 16,393 homes at the current average of £61,000 each . |
| 18 | It would have two minutes at the end ! |
| 19 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 20 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 21 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 22 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 23 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 24 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 25 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 26 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 27 | If the monopolist were less interested in profits and more interested in maximising the firm 's sales revenue , then it would produce 100,000 units at a price of £5 . |
| 28 | At the same time , however , reports of a hardening in the US negotiating position appeared to be confirmed after the USA announced on Oct. 15 that it would sell 870,000 tonnes of subsidised vegetable oil worth US$377,000,000 to 11 countries . |
| 29 | Just before Christmas SBC announced that it would cut 500 jobs in Switzerland as part of an economy drive . |
| 30 | As a contribution to the reconciliation process , the FMLN announced that it would release two combatants on March 16 to stand trial locally ( rather than in the USA , as the US government had previously insisted ) on charges of murdering two US advisers whose helicopter was shot down in January 1991 [ see pp. 37956-57 ] . |