Example sentences of "[vb mod] it [verb] [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 The Ribera exhibition now at the Prado until 25 August was a popular success in Naples ' Castel Sant'Elmo , whose romantic fastnesses suited the shadows of the artist 's style ; in the two and a half months until 17 May it had 80,000 visitors , which in Italy , for a serious exhibition , is a large number .
36 If so , ought it to use that weapon in all cases or only in some ; and if only in some , on what principle should it distinguish ?
37 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 ?
38 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 ?
39 Nor will it do any good if it is sent to the right outlet at the wrong time .
40 Will it force British Steel to keep it open ?
41 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 ?
42 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 ?
43 Will it come next Tuesday night ?
44 Will you get a big weight loss this week , or will it come next week , or not at all ?
45 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 ?
46 Only then can it affect political institutions .
47 Not only can it homogenize these communities as insensitively as assimilationism or multiculturalism .
48 Can it speak other languages ?
49 Which aircraft have we got and can it take two crew and a full load of fuel ?
50 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 ?
51 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 .
52 Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ?
53 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 ?
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