Example sentences of "[modal v] it [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | there 's twenty twenty men , right five hours to big hole , how long would it take one man . |
| 32 | So long would it take twelve men . |
| 33 | How long would it take six men ? |
| 34 | In a nationally televised address on Nov. 8 , the South Korean President , Roh Tae Woo , announced that South Korea " will not manufacture , possess , store deploy or use nuclear weapons " , neither would it develop nuclear reprocessing or enrichment facilities . |
| 35 | Will independence bring more opportunities for adults and mature students , a wider range of vocational courses and a higher staying-on rate or will it mean more competition , cuts in expensive courses and no overall structure to educational provision from 11–19 ? |
| 36 | Will it achieve any purposes that justify its cost in countries destroyed , the dead and the maimed , misery for some millions of Third World migrant workers now without jobs and bankruptcy for their countries , plus the erosion of the standards of humanity in Britain and the United States ? |
| 37 | Nor will it do any good if it is sent to the right outlet at the wrong time . |
| 38 | Will it force British Steel to keep it open ? |
| 39 | Will it only learn the song of its own species or will it learn any tape recorded song it may have played to it during its memorizing phase ? |
| 40 | Can this group remain within a united working class or will it pursue selfish interests , separating itself further from the remainder of the working class ? |
| 41 | Will it come next Tuesday night ? |
| 42 | Will you get a big weight loss this week , or will it come next week , or not at all ? |
| 43 | If the chick is going to do this to remember everything that goes on during its lifetime , how will it find enough room in its little brain for all that synaptic machinery ? |
| 44 | Only then can it affect political institutions . |
| 45 | Not only can it homogenize these communities as insensitively as assimilationism or multiculturalism . |
| 46 | Can it speak other languages ? |
| 47 | Which aircraft have we got and can it take two crew and a full load of fuel ? |
| 48 | If Labour can not win when the country is in the deepest recession since the war and the Tories have ditched their greatest electoral asset , can it have any hope of ever again forming a government ? |
| 49 | But a regular inspection every four or five years can not by itself be sufficient protection for the parents or the children ; nor can it provide enough information by which to judge the effectiveness of a school . |
| 50 | Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ? |
| 51 | The questions which our proposal can usefully address are : ( i ) Will it lead to any discriminating predictions about observable data which differ from what would be expected under the assumption that postnominals are simply normal attributive adjectives ? ( ii ) How might our claim relate to the characteristics of postnominal attributives discussed in Sections 3.5 to 3.7 ? ( iii ) Can it cast any light in particular on the fact that only a subset of adjectives can occur as postnominal attributives ? |