Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can an exhaust brake be fitted to my 1989 Range Rover Vogue V8 auto as , on long declines it will gain enough momentum not only to rip the skin off a rice pudding , but take the table and chairs with it . |
| 2 | Ready anticipates it will quadruple its sales revenues with the release of Velocity 3.0 . |
| 3 | But he scarcely thinks it will come to that . ’ |
| 4 | Whenever I speak of it , he just says it can stay as it is in case I ever want it . |
| 5 | If that ignorance still exists it would have to be dispelled . |
| 6 | Britain still hopes it can persuade the UN agency to change its mind when a special committee on refugees from Indo-China resumes its meetings in mid-January . |
| 7 | An act is ‘ in furtherance ’ of a trade dispute when the doer genuinely believes it will assist the cause in support of which it is done : the House of Lords has emphatically rejected the addition of any requirement that the act be ‘ not too remote ’ or ‘ reasonably likely to succeed . ’ |
| 8 | If the runner can be told exactly why he or she is doing a particular type of training , what bodily changes it will bring about and how he or she should run to achieve them , then those 15 minutes a day of quality training are more than enough . |
| 9 | That probably means it will offend the few and rip off the many . |
| 10 | If the bill were to be passed as it now stands it would result in the restriction , and even removal , of presently existing freedoms for evangelistic work . |
| 11 | The health authority now says it 'll listen to other views . |
| 12 | Normally the ‘ illegals ’ are handed back to China on the border almost daily , but Peking now says it will check each case , a move expected to slow repatriation to a trickle and put further pressure on the Territory 's detention centres , which are already overflowing with Vietnamese boat people . |
| 13 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover . |
| 14 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 15 | Telefonica de Espana SA now says it will fight the court ruling ordering it to sell one or other of its holdings in Chile 's two main telecommunications companies — and appeal to international law if necessary : Telefonica has 43.6% in Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA and 20% of Entel Chile SA , and has been told to sell one within 18 months . |
| 16 | But although the centre has n't gathered everything under one roof , if it has n't got the information , it now reckons it can tell inquirers where to find it . |
| 17 | Therefore TSB Direct claims it will offer cheaper products than are available through the branches . |
| 18 | SunSoft presumably believes it can win PowerPC customers for more standard Unix System V.4-compatible system software : Tadpole Technology Plc already integrates Solaris on its Sparc-based laptops . |
| 19 | SunSoft presumably believes it can win PowerPC customers for more standard Unix SVR4-compatible system software : Tadpole already integrates Solaris on its Sparc-based laptops and will likely do the same for a PowerPC line . |
| 20 | His team is like Dumbo : no-one seriously believes it can fly all the way back here for next summer 's World Cup finals after losing 2–0 to an American side that chortled with disbelief . |