Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It may even win Mr Rowland backing within the market and among outside names ( the individuals who provide Lloyd 's capital ) , though they will be dismayed by his forecasts of losses of up to £2.8 billion ( $1.4 billion ) for 1990 and over £1 billion for 1991 . |
| 2 | Its applications include word processing , and it may eventually supersede Psion 's seven-year-old Organiser range of electronic notebooks , which has been losing momentum as the market for such gadgets has matured . |
| 3 | If there is any demand , it may well add Hewlett-Packard 's object database management system , OpenODB , alongside of its own On-line product . |
| 4 | If there is any demand , it may well add Hewlett-Packard 's object database management system , OpenODB , alongside of its own On-line product ( CI No 1,974 ) . |
| 5 | AT&T Co 's plans to buy a big stake in McCaw Cellular Communications Inc still worry Standard & Poor 's Corp despite the company 's news on Tuesday that it would restructure its debt to cut its interest bill ( CI No 2,134 ) : it says it may still cut AT&T 's ratings , because although it will benefit from the move , uncertainties over the planned investment in McCaw will dominate the credit outlook until terms of the transaction and its structure are known . |
| 6 | For that reason alone , the Communist party saw that it must either stop Mosley now or else perhaps lose all chance of a populist vote in its own support . |
| 7 | If it is to be a Christology , it must also concern Christ 's person — whereupon all the problems which Christology entails are again present . |
| 8 | At the time empires were normal enough ; it was nationalism that was unusual and , if it did develop , it might easily break Charles 's empire into fragments because of the absence of linguistic or geographic unity . |
| 9 | But it might not provoke Balliol into action . |
| 10 | Lij Yasu 's restoration would at the least constitute a considerable propaganda success for Turkey ; it might even bring Abyssinia into the war on the side of our enemies , at a time when we were fighting the Germans in East Africa , the Turks in Sinai , Mesopotamia and the Aden Protectorate , and the Dervishes in Somaliland . |
| 11 | Er , you should have , yeah , but it 'll probably arrive Friday , because I 'm a late replacement . |
| 12 | And that 's not all — it 'll even publish BBC Radio 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , & 5 . |
| 13 | It could also include Hungary , Czechoslovakia and possibly others — at least as associates if not yet as full members . |
| 14 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 15 | Britain was granted a specially lenient deal because Environment Minister Lord Caithness argued that it could not fit FGD in the required timescale , and that it had domestic high sulphur coal which it ‘ had to use ’ whereas other countries relied mainly on imported low sulphur coal . |
| 16 | Last week the Northern Ireland Court Service said it could n't comment Lord Justice Murray 's retirement . |
| 17 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 18 | Your body — even if it ca n't do Mr Kent 's maths tests or win the high jump — remains something that modern science can not copy . |
| 19 | Microsoft Corp 's hiccup with Windows NT has caused DEC to stumble : it ca n't release Jensen until NT is out , setting schedules back . |
| 20 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 21 | It would also leave India with no budgetary provision ( a continuing resolution , to allow four months ' expenditure after the current financial year end on March 31 , had been introduced on March 4 after the Congress ( I ) had in late February denied Shekhar 's government its backing for a full budget bill — ibid . ) . |
| 22 | While the report would give greatest emphasis to sustainable development in the UK , it would also cover EC commitments and the UK 's responsibilities to developing countries . |
| 23 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 24 | It would also allow Mr Lamont to show he does not contemplate any deliberate devaluation of sterling . |
| 25 | On Feb. 6 Japan , apparently responding to GFCCG appeals , announced that it would shortly provide Egypt , Jordan and Turkey with more than $1,030 million in low-interest loans [ see p. 38010 ] . |
| 26 | It would n't do Bunty any good . ’ |
| 27 | But industry minister Edward Leigh , on a visit to the town , said it would n't benefit Britain 's workforce . |
| 28 | Decent people kept quiet ; it would n't help Donny to get into trouble . ’ |
| 29 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 30 | It would n't take Sergeant Noble very long to find out . |