Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 Such a survey can serve more than mere biographical curiosity , and a final section will suggest how it may clarify some issues of current interest to historians , to philosophers and to biologists .
2 However , this carries the risk that what is being implemented may need to be later unravelled because of second thoughts and if the original putting together of a change costs effort and resentment , going back on it may create further difficulties of relationships .
3 ( iii ) Defective registration It may be that the charges register fails to disclose accurately particulars of the charge ; for example , it may contain inaccurate particulars of the amount secured , or the property subject to the charge .
4 The Zambian government has banned the sale of unpasteurized milk direct from farmers to consumers because it may contain high concentrations of the pesticide dieldrin .
5 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 .
6 It may take five minutes of real time to play the match .
7 In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit .
8 This would lead to confusion and complication ; ( 2 ) It may imperil certain aspects of the regulatory system , for instance by concluding that Chinese walls are ineffective to prevent the attribution of information , or because advance disclosure that would satisfy fiduciary requirements is impossible , a broker/dealer is always liable when buying or selling as principal ; ( 3 ) It does not appear to give any recognition to the expertise of the bodies to which Parliament has entrusted the regulation of financial services .
9 If the wood is very badly stained , it may require two applications of bleach .
10 Those who doubt it should consider these words of a club owner : ‘ Professional baseball is on the wane .
11 It should produce 5000 tonnes of the metal per year .
12 If the model is an accurate description of the way in which option prices are set and if the market is efficient , then it should produce good predictions of future option prices given the various parameters .
13 Hopefully , it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hopsital for minor surgery .
14 Hopefully , it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hospital for minor surgery .
15 If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments .
16 It must address all sources of power and the impacts they cause .
17 The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food .
18 I thought it might take two years of training . ’
19 stuff , erm , I 'll I 've got a disk that does interesting little joined up lines , and there 's one where you can just put numbers in yourself and it 'll draw all sorts of pictures for you
20 However , it could dictate public perceptions of the parties ' agenda .
21 It could encompass all members of the double-reed family , from treble to bass ; in addition it was often used in a general sense , simply to indicate an ensemble of woodwind instruments , but not necessarily any specific ones .
22 His son , seeking to staunch the outflow of money on the Scottish war , quickly arranged a truce , but it could offer few hopes of long-term disengagement .
23 Once Dai succeeded in getting Bernard 's semi-automatic printer in full working order it could produce 5,000 metres of cloth per week .
24 It would maximise civilian tactics of resistance and defuse the natural potential for violence , containing and eventually eliminating the marginal but intrusive phenomenon of collaborator activation by Israeli security authorities and collaborator execution by local Palestinians .
25 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 .
26 The delay was partly due to a long and very public debate between PADA and ARROW , a group of residents from Woodchurch , the estate where heroin use was first discovered , who were unhappy about such a centre being opened near their homes , fearing it would attract various sorts of trouble .
27 It would change all sorts of things .
28 The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year .
29 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 .
30 Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s .
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