Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 2 | Such a survey can serve more than mere biographical curiosity , and a final section will suggest how it may clarify some issues of current interest to historians , to philosophers and to biologists . |
| 3 | Although this may be a couple of years out of date , it only costs £3 and it may give some clues as to the strength of the company . |
| 4 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 5 | Indeed it may encourage some insiders to create shock news . |
| 6 | It must involve some acts being done in State B , over which the law of that State may properly exercise a measure of control . |
| 7 | First , since the government has the job of running the country it must have some functions , powers and duties which private individuals do not have ; obvious examples are the waging of war and the issuing of passports . |
| 8 | Broadcasters themselves were also aware that it was easy to overdo the attention given to politicians and political news ; it might make some politicians happy , but not the audience . |
| 9 | I should think it might put some customers off . |
| 10 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 11 | He says it could cost some pensioners as much as £25 a week and is urging the council to think again . |
| 12 | It could present some publishers with problems but a useful ordering tip is to hold back your order until you have seen several ranges . |
| 13 | The project has drawn heavy criticism from environmental and human rights activists , who warned that it would submerge some forests and erode others , disrupt fisheries , increase the risk of malaria and other insect-borne diseases , and fail to supply useful amounts of water to those areas of drought-stricken Gujarat most in need of it . |
| 14 | Whatever he backed or took over — insecure but deserving commercial ventures , a struggling publishing firm , an inefficient factory which he refused to modernize because it would make some workers redundant-always miraculously turned the corner and became financially successful . |
| 15 | It would save some patients from being precipitated into depression and the concomitant risks of treatment with ECT . |
| 16 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 17 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 18 | While the move will reassure metropolitan-minded trademark agents — who feared they might have ended up dealing with an office in Wales — it will create some problems . |
| 19 | It will collect some leaves , chew them until they form a crude sponge , then soak the sponge in the pool so that it can squeeze the water into its mouth . |
| 20 | Let's begin by looking at what happened in the past , as it will give some insights into what took place in Utah in 1989 and help us understand better why people reacted in the ways that they did . |
| 21 | It will take some years to complete that process , but that is a necessary price to pay for the flexibility that the legislation gives us . |
| 22 | It will take some weeks now before I can contact my friend and ask him … ask for the information to be repeated . ’ |
| 23 | It will require some things that are going to be necessary for the statutory and voluntary sectors in any case and it will mean drawing the private sector in , like a common assessment policy for all long term care . |
| 24 | The idea is a strange one and it will require some preliminaries before it can be explained . |
| 25 | But we hope it will raise some questions in your mind , and give you the answers to some questions as well . |
| 26 | Unless it can pull some rabbits from a hat , the losing consortium , led by Northrop and McDonnell Douglas , will see the YF-23 ( which resembles its sleek and costly stablemate , the B-2 bomber ) consigned to a museum . |
| 27 | Gas and air produces a lightheaded feeling that takes the edge off the pain but it can make some women feel nauseous . |
| 28 | Although the MCV failed in its immediate objectives , it can claim some achievements . |
| 29 | It can kill some babies and children within hours . |