Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 2 | It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider . |
| 3 | It may take five minutes of real time to play the match . |
| 4 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 5 | But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator . |
| 6 | It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie |
| 7 | If the warren system is a big one it may require two guns to do the killing . |
| 8 | If the wood is very badly stained , it may require two applications of bleach . |
| 9 | It should cover three weeks at a time , with allowance for holiday and sick leave . |
| 10 | Built into the fabric of this entitlement is the requirement that it should embrace five curriculum characteristics , the first three being that it must be broad , balanced and relevant . |
| 11 | It should last four hours , the inventor claims . |
| 12 | A more explicit example of a contract suggests that it should contain three elements : |
| 13 | It should take 23 weeks for all 23 goals to be accomplished . |
| 14 | The best new piece of equipment at the Royal Welsh Show this week suitable for upland farming conditions sounded as if it should have four legs rather than four wheels . |
| 15 | It should produce 5000 tonnes of the metal per year . |
| 16 | Thus , the presence of solifluxion on a raised beach means that it must precede one glaciation , but this merely fixes its age as pre-last glaciation and gives no indication of how many glaciations have passed since the beach was formed . |
| 17 | Every round the tongue regenerates fully ; it must suffer 8 Wounds in a single round before it is put out of action for good . |
| 18 | If a company is to become enduringly successful , says Mr Chandler , it must make two kinds of what he calls ‘ first-mover ’ investments . |
| 19 | So whatever verb is chosen will determine what functional predicate/argument structure is created — for HIT , it will be HIT ( AGENT , GOAL , INSTRUMENT ) because part of the lexical specification for the verb HIT is that it must have three arguments and they must be AGENT , ACTED-UPON , INSTRUMENT . |
| 20 | It might give one power . |
| 21 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 22 | I mean , I 'll get a box sent to me and it might get one spin at home so that I can relax , sort of wipe my brow knowing it does n't jump , the quality 's good and it 's loud enough … ’ |
| 23 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 24 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 25 | When you have finished — it might take five minutes or five hours — look through your notes and pick out the central themes . |
| 26 | It might take five moves , or 10 , or 15 , to get to the goal , but when that happens , it is not because the player looked ahead that number of moves . |
| 27 | No it 'll go twenty foot . |
| 28 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 29 | Cos I do n't think it 'll reach three pallets high . |
| 30 | It 'll do 165 mph and 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds and it 's a mere snip at less than £80,000 . |