Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 2 | This can have the effect of moving the blockage further down the burrow , or it may result in one or more rabbits deciding to make a bolt for it . |
| 3 | A market may consist of a mere handful of people ( eg specialist collectors of a certain type of antique porcelain ) , or it may consist of millions ( eg consumers of breakfast cereals ) . |
| 4 | A molecule may be monatomic — as in the case of noble gases — or it may consist of two or more atoms . |
| 5 | The scheme includes off-the-job training and further education of a minimum of three months , though it may extend to six months , either on a day or block release basis , together with work experience periods with employers structured to give trainees a wide range of jobs . |
| 6 | It may stop after one or two drinks or it may go on into a spree . |
| 7 | Between 2000 m and 1600 m above sea-level , vegetation recovery is more rapid but only where erosion is at a minimum and even then it may take between 5 and 8 years after seeding . |
| 8 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |
| 9 | It never drops below magnitude 10.5 , and at maximum it may rise to 5.9 , so that it is then on the fringe of naked-eye visibility and is easy in any binoculars ; it is distinguished by its intense redness , and it has been nicknamed the Crimson Star . |
| 10 | The thaw does not usually exceed about 1 m on flat ground , but on south facing slopes it may penetrate to 1.5 m ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | When it drops to minimum it may fall to 15 , and will be out of binocular range for some time . |
| 12 | Daft as it may seem after three years of knowing Jim Bob , I still do n't know him at all . |
| 13 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 14 | The main job for its five-man crew will be to send the nuclear-powered Galileo space probe on its way to Jupiter , where it should arrive in 1995 . |
| 15 | In either event it should arrive within 10 working days after the period end , so the amount of time for collecting this information is very short . |
| 16 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 17 | Well it should come to two two two O two O , plus seven times a hundred and one , which will just be seven O seven . |
| 18 | So it should come to three times one hundred and eighty . |
| 19 | It should expand to 50-60 by the end of the year . |
| 20 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree with my Hon. Friend that most of his suggestions will form part of the solution though I think that the House would be reluctant to depart from the view that it should rise at 2.30 on Fridays . |
| 21 | Mr chairman that it should comply with three and one of the other two . |
| 22 | If we look at the next slide , you 'll then see er , the change from net funds from operations , plus eighteen million , down to the various large reduction in borrowings , you 're already aware of and , of course , the erm , disposals less acquisitions as it should read for ninety one er , stands out there . |
| 23 | The rate of accretion may seem slight , but , as it means a gain in height of 0.4–1.0 m ( 1½–3½ ft ) per century , it must rank as one of the more rapid geomorphological processes . |
| 24 | It must arrive within three months of the ‘ effective date of termination ’ of the employment , basically the date of dismissal or some later date deemed by statute to be the date the employment ended . |
| 25 | They spend alot of money in the village , it must run into millions of pounds . |
| 26 | First , there is the lunch-break story ( though it is not entirely clear that this relates to the very last meeting : it might relate to 5 November ) . |
| 27 | Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement . |
| 28 | It was not only food that was running short ; the Collector was shocked to see how little powder and shot remained the mine , the fougasses , and the firing of chain shot to clear the foliage had seriously depleted what he had considered an ample provision of powder ; if used sparingly it might last for two weeks , but the shot was almost exhausted . |
| 29 | Oh according to Josie , I really do n't know about all the cabbages , it might consist of one or two . |
| 30 | Often the coincidence turns out , on the shortest examination , to be unremarkable : typically , it might consist of two acquaintances from school or university running into one another after a gap of several years . |