Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 2 | Upon reviewing all the comment 's replies to A , it concludes that it can get at least 10 ( hypothetical ) ‘ points ’ with A . |
| 3 | A jagged piece of rock , which looks like it could shear a boat in two , looms out of the spray , and disappears . |
| 4 | ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself . |
| 5 | Yvonne 's wearing a little black number that to my untutored eye looks like it could have cost ten quid or a thousand ; Clare is rather more ostentatious in a short , sparkling , crimson creation that looks like it wants to be a ball-gown when it grows up . |
| 6 | He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him ! |
| 7 | I 'm the breadwinner and it looks like it will stay that way . |
| 8 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
| 9 | but it 's it 's not , just looks and it will do for a while . |
| 10 | Management consultants are not quite in the American lawyer category when it comes to vilification , but they attract their fair share ( well almost … ) : the Financial Times defines a management consultant as someone who sees something working in practice and wonders whether it will work in theory … |
| 11 | ‘ Dr Adams thinks that it would help him in handling her case . ’ |
| 12 | Like many other colleges and educational establishments , Gateshead college is worried about that trend and thinks that it will increase in the future , particularly if nothing is done . |
| 13 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at MIPS Technologies Inc : he apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of MIPS ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc ; he would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks that it will market low-cost MIPS R-series workstations made by OEM suppliers . |
| 14 | A company often thinks that it can let space for a short term — say two or three years — and then move back in once the business climate has improved . |
| 15 | Well the trend though over all is absolutely clear , that the Labour Party is committed to increasing women 's representation and is absolutely on that path , we 've more Labour women MP s and increasing numbers of women in the shadow cabinet it 's only in the end of the nineteen eighties , as recently as then , that we had no women in the shadow cabinet , now everybody agrees that it would look quite wrong not to have women in the shadow cabinet , we 've got a woman deputy leader , three women in the shadow cabinet , and therefore we 're definitely moving forward . |
| 16 | That is absolutely contrary to the constitutional position that Parliament can alter an Act previously passed , and it can do so by repealing in terms the previous Act — Mr Hill agrees that it may do so — and it can do it also in another way — namely , by enacting a provision which is clearly inconsistent with the previous Act . |
| 17 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |
| 18 | 15.2 hereby agrees that it will use such confidential information solely for the purposes of this Agreement and that it shall not disclose , whether directly or indirectly , to any third party such information other than as required to carry out the purposes of this Agreement . |
| 19 | He says that it would make an ideal site for tourist related businesses . |
| 20 | The Institute says that it would prefer the former . |
| 21 | He says that it would cost him more money if he went the other way . |
| 22 | There is no way of monitoring arms once they are sold , although I believe Contraves when it says that it would have to fit the latest equipment to any ship , and would not fit Argentinian ships . |
| 23 | Talking about visions , Dickens says that it would help ‘ if William Blake were here ’ , only to be interrupted by Chatterton . |
| 24 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 25 | The surgeon says that it can avoid major surgery . |
| 26 | The University also says that it can supply state-of-the art fibre to other universities and industry across the world in accordance with specific designs , if required . |
| 27 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 28 | But Catalonia says that it will bear the entire cost if necessary . |
| 29 | IBM says that it will offer AIX CICS/6000 to vendors like Sun , Hewlett Packard and Digital Equipment Corp . |
| 30 | European and Asian countries , where companies have few scruples about exploiting their American rivals ' legal handicap , could pass anti-bribery laws of their own and TI says that it will lobby for such legislation . |