Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a country espouses outward-looking policies , it may continue to behave in many important respects as though it were still domestically focused . |
| 2 | The ability to extract is rare precisely because it may have to cut across these obvious parts . |
| 3 | It may help to think of each of these markets as being located on its own island . |
| 4 | As modern , high-tech society moves on ( at whatever pace ) , it may come to rest in another equilibrium , of skills , where the qualified population is evenly balanced by an underclass of servitors : and missing is the layer of middling qualified people who would otherwise release the elite to produce innovative movement . |
| 5 | On occasion , it might refuse to work at all and we find ourselves longing for the days of youth when it would stand at attention regardless of any identifiable sexual stimulus . |
| 6 | Which is interesting because here the three of us are , thinking about what it means to belong somewhere , what it might mean to belong to this idea called ‘ theatre ’ . |
| 7 | it 'd pay to come in that they would steal |
| 8 | The University has in place a funding strategy to enable it to achieve this objective ; the funds , however , which it would hope to raise for that purpose would not be available to meet the costs of relocating the medical departments ( see para. 3.1 above ) . |
| 9 | Can you imagine how much it would cost to extrapolate from these screen sizes to a wall-sized panel ? |
| 10 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 11 | After torrential rainfalls over the Bank Holiday , a spokesman for the Three Valleys Water area suggested : ‘ It would have to rain like this every day for three months to make any difference . ’ |
| 12 | If I went and had a meal in the evening a la carte , how would you envisage it would take to go through that ? |
| 13 | It would seem to follow from this that a man who believes that the woman is consenting , even though she is not , ought to be acquitted . |
| 14 | It would seem to follow from this analysis that the most appropriate content to ascribe to the duty to act in the interests of the shareholders is that the directors should attempt to maximise the present value of the company . |
| 15 | It would seem to follow from this that men who fail to have regard to this question should in some circumstances be criminally liable but it is not clear whether the Committee intends this or not . |
| 16 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 17 | Instead , a business will have one set of terms which it will seek to apply to all its transactions . |
| 18 | The dust spreads far and wide in the wind , and there is a good chance that some particles of it will happen to land in another stream , hitherto not ‘ infected ’ with the seeds of this kind of dam-making clay . |
| 19 | Tomkins ' shares have come down , falling from 260p to 220p on the extra shares it will have to issue for this bid . |
| 20 | It will have to rise to those heights where shear between two wind layers gives a choice of wind-direction , and plentiful turbulence to sustain lift . |
| 21 | Kenotic christology of this sort did have its own internal problems : on closer examination it is not easy to understand what exactly it can mean to speak of this ‘ self-emptying ’ , and attempts to make the matter more precise tend to fade into a tangle of artificialities and contradictions . |