Example sentences of "[adv] it [modal v] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore it can be shown ( Acarnley , et al , 1979 ) that motors with higher stack numbers have no real performance advantages over a three-stack motor . |
| 2 | If a company is run inefficiently it will be penalised in the capital market , that is , its shares will be lowly rated as compared with more profitable companies . |
| 3 | I think , I think it should all be , you know , basically it should be done from |
| 4 | There are clear guidelines in the code on the manner in which information should be added to computer systems , how long it should be kept on the system and the security measures that should be taken to prevent unauthorised access . |
| 5 | When dialect is a matter of different words being used , naturally it will be understood only if it is known previously . |
| 6 | On these grounds alone it would be ruled out by any sensible organisation looking for a big office site . |
| 7 | Perhaps it would be overhung by trees or shaded by nearby buildings . |
| 8 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 9 | Perhaps it might be disputed whether , after living in the USA for nearly half a century , Miss McPartland is still British . |
| 10 | Perhaps it might be claimed that the major important variables in measuring population growth rates and their causes are technically easier than those measuring soil erosion rates and their causes . |
| 11 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 12 | One of the most popular demands of ‘ boy labour ’ and other sympathetic reformers , or perhaps it should be described as an aspiration , for that is what it was , referred to the creation of ‘ a satisfactory race of citizens ’ . |
| 13 | It seems to be being forgotten , perhaps it will be repressed , but its effects will not cease . |
| 14 | Perhaps it will be suggested that there is an incoherence in setting out to have partly false beliefs , but that there is no similar incoherence in setting out to have emotional conflict and even a certain amount of chaos in one 's behaviour . |
| 15 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 16 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 17 | Perhaps it can be done by saying that there is a basic biological species-need for sexual reproduction which gives rise to inner impulses , felt periodically , for full genital contact and orgasm . |
| 18 | Perhaps it can be arranged . ’ |
| 19 | Mhm so I mean well it it 's gon na be an archive and maybe people can who want to analyse everyday language can get tape recordings from it and er y'know perhaps it can be used in scholarship , perhaps it can be used in socio-linguistics or whatever . |
| 20 | Mhm so I mean well it it 's gon na be an archive and maybe people can who want to analyse everyday language can get tape recordings from it and er y'know perhaps it can be used in scholarship , perhaps it can be used in socio-linguistics or whatever . |
| 21 | Perhaps it could be done as an oratorio . |
| 22 | The highest prices are expected to be paid for a 1982 Mouton Rothschild at upto £250 a bottle , but perhaps it could be topped by an outsize bid . |
| 23 | Well perhaps it could be read in more gliding fashion |
| 24 | If a BCRS member has a copy , then I would very much like to borrow it , or perhaps it could be published in the Journal . |
| 25 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 26 | So I really , what I 'm asking , is that perhaps it could be set out exactly now what stage we have reached , and what the recommendation is as from today . |
| 27 | Obviously it could be done ; I 'm just saying you 'd need a pretty controlled and sophisticated setup to achieve consistency and accuracy . |
| 28 | More important , if your machine is good enough it could be taken up by a commercial firm and go into production . |
| 29 | This is going to be the same thing , only it will be set in the future . |
| 30 | The distinction between real and apparent achievement , if only it can be concealed from the teacher , and suitably managed by a child , provides the opportunity for rewards to be received just as well for cheating as for genuine achievement . |