Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they ignore the risk of workplace stress claims , it may cost them another fortune . |
| 2 | It may blow them all into one spot . |
| 3 | Moreover , ’ he continued , ‘ perhaps it may give you some time to reflect on the Lady Maude . ’ |
| 4 | It may give us some answers . |
| 5 | It may take you several weeks to refine the answers . |
| 6 | It does not follow , however , that incised meanders are necessarily signs of rejuvenation , as if a stream starts to meander before it attains grade it may incise its own meanders to some extent without being rejuvenated . |
| 7 | The AUT plans to warn its own bankers , NatWest , that it may withdraw its own account in protest at the bank 's support for the Government scheme . |
| 8 | ‘ Peter Brooke should also , ’ he writes , ‘ persuade the Chairman and Chief Executive ( of Channel 4 ) that , even though it may cause them some embarrassment , it is in their interests that they commit themselves fully to telling the public the truth and to assisting the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't think it should cause you any problems , but it is something that 's come on late erm as a result of maternity cover . |
| 10 | Thus when W , composed of parts X and Y , exists , something exists besides X and Y , and it is not surprising that it should have its own fresh value . |
| 11 | If a waste disposal unit is fitted to a kitchen sink , it should have its own 40mm waste , taken directly to the soil stack with a minimum slope of 7½° and as short a run as possible . |
| 12 | As the hon. Gentleman agrees that Scotland is a different nation , why does he not accept that it should have its own system if it prefers , and allow it to have a fair rates system ? |
| 13 | Well it should pick it all up if it 's a good , good enough mike . |
| 14 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 15 | By thinking that everything is final — that it must pass your own " quality control " test — you greatly reduce the likelihood of producing any work at all . |
| 16 | If the European Union is to become a form of national state , it follows that it must have its own police force , just as it must have its own army . |
| 17 | If the European Union is to become a form of national state , it follows that it must have its own police force , just as it must have its own army . |
| 18 | However it is clear from the context that all that he meant was that , where what is claimed to be confidential is an idea based on a well-known theme , it must have something such as a significant twist or slant which is not public knowledge . |
| 19 | If the detachment moves more than 8″ away from its regiment then it must use its own leadership value for tests , but if it moves back within 8″ it will regain the leadership benefit . |
| 20 | As Cobbett said afterwards , the people had wanted the Act " that it might do us some good ; that it might better our situation … and not for the gratification of any abstract or metaphysical whim . " |
| 21 | He walked round the room , examining every object as though it might tell him some secret . |
| 22 | She 'd been polite , and he 'd been too quick to imagine that it might signify something more . |
| 23 | For example , where there are natural monopolies , it might be difficult for a well-intentioned and determined DHA to effect changes : indeed , it might find itself more pre-occupied with trying to contain the natural inclinations of monopolists to raise prices without commensurate improvements in quality . |
| 24 | It occurs as that in Judges 9.9 and 13 , and here it might indicate nothing more than the all-embracing nature of the struggles which Jacob has engaged in during the course of his life . |
| 25 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 26 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 27 | If I 'm in bed , it might take me half a minute to wake up . |
| 28 | I mean it might take us another two week two months before we get it out . |
| 29 | R A Y N E R , and that 's your head of department in case erm , so if you look in that book in chapter four , right , there 's er agricultural trade and the GATT , if you look er , if you read that chapter , it 'll give you all the information you need to know about erm , agricultural trade , erm , how it 's changed , what the costs , there are a lot of estimates of the costs of agricultural protectionism , and as the benefits to liberalization of er , of trade , and also it gives er , a view of erm , er the Uruguay round of GATT . |
| 30 | So once you know that , these two are the same you take that from one eighty , halve the answer and it 'll give you these angles , and if you 've got that ang if you 've got these angles , then you can work out most things . |