Example sentences of "[art] [adv] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the most it may mean giving up a job . |
| 2 | The most it can do is draw with its opponent . |
| 3 | The most it can do is ’ raise issues ’ which go nowhere towards dealing with these . |
| 4 | The more resources that Japan devoted to its basic comforts , reasoned the Americans , the less it would have for featherbedding its export industries — and thus , just possibly , Japan 's trade surplus with America might fall . |
| 5 | The more dilute the urine , the less it 'll irritate , sting and burn . |
| 6 | It 's like … well , the longer I leave it , the less it will hurt when I finally face it . |
| 7 | As there is indeed a need to reduce car dependency it therefore follows that the nearer to York that the new settlement is then the greater the benefits could result , equally to , the further that the new settlement is from York then I think the less it will have an effect in reducing the pressures for development upon York . |
| 8 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 9 | Well I mean the normally it would kill the grass , but it wo n't matter this year . |
| 10 | But it was also clear that the longer the inquiry went on , the more it would coincide with the growing national debate about the government 's proposals to privatize the electricity industry . |
| 11 | The more accurately you wanted to measure the position of the particle , the greater the energy of the packet you would have to use and thus the more it would disturb the particle . |
| 12 | In practice , the formula worked roughly along the lines that the more the local authority spent on services , the more it would get . |
| 13 | The more they talked , the more it might damp down his surprising sexual interest . |
| 14 | The plural text will undo the classical image of a tangible author sending a tangible message to a tangible reader ; and the more plural a text is , the more it will make it impossible for the reader to find any origin for it , whether it be in the form of an authorial voice , a representational content or a philosophical truth . |
| 15 | Whichever it is , the more it is rubbed in , the more it will fail to click . |
| 16 | When choosing either foam or felt remember that the more resilient the underlay the more it will improve and therefore prolong the life of your carpet . |
| 17 | But the greater the prestige and reputation of an institution , the more it will recruit from the upper echelons of society . |
| 18 | Naturally , the brighter the white , the more it will suit pictures with a modern style , so consider choosing at least an off-white , if not a cream , for pictures with an antique flavour . |
| 19 | ‘ The more people complain , the more it will become established that harassment is not acceptable . ’ |
| 20 | The less successful a government is in controlling the PSBR , the more it will have to borrow through bond issue to prevent money supply from growing too fast . |
| 21 | The longer we continue to pump lead into the atmosphere , the more it will accumulate . |
| 22 | The greater their number is in a cultural unit the more secure is its culture and the more it can dispense with external measures of coercion . |
| 23 | The more it changed , the more it could change . |
| 24 | Of course , the fewer calories the body uses from food the more it must draw from your surplus body fat , so this adds up to faster weight loss . |
| 25 | The machine knows that if it plays B it will be vulnerable to a reply that will leave it with fewer points than the least it can get by choosing A . |
| 26 | At the least it will impose new responsibilities and personal restrictions as well as further demands on time and physical energy . |
| 27 | Two fifty , would you do you think two fifty and one fifty is the closest it can go ? |