Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may set out the general terms on which the firm will be prepared to deal , its right to refuse to deal and the fact that any deals that it undertakes will be on the customary terms of the market concerned . |
| 2 | It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality . |
| 3 | Olivetti said its use of Alpha would definitely be restricted to the high-end workstation market : it ‘ has other designs ’ when it comes to servers , hinting that it may bring out a product in that area based on the parallel processing technology of Kendall Square Research Corp , the Waltham , Massachusetts-based company in which it has a stake ( see page three ) . |
| 4 | Give too much and it may bring about the very conditions it is capable of curing ; ‘ Through the like , disease is produced and through the application of the like it is cured ’ , said Hippocrates over 2000 years ago . |
| 5 | Even then , if a file is very large , it may spread over a number of disks . |
| 6 | In passages which resonate with the spirit of Bagehot , ‘ a man of genius ’ , Dicey argues that the ‘ rule of a party can not be permanently identified with the authority of the nation or with the dictates of patriotism ’ and that ‘ while popular government may be under wise leadership a good machine for simply destroying existing evils , it may turn out a very poor instrument for the construction of new institutions or the realisation of new ideals ’ The limitations in practice of his belief in ‘ democracy tempered by snobbishness ’ are finally conceded : |
| 7 | Said a Drug Squad source : ‘ We are extremely pleased with these stiff sentences and it should send out a warning to those involved in the drugs scene that the courts are coming down hard on them . ’ |
| 8 | It should bring in a great deal of money . ’ |
| 9 | The centre-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA — whose leader , former President Alan García , was in exile in Colombia ) , despite internal divisions over the stance which it should take on the poll , called on its supporters to spoil their papers . |
| 10 | Here we shall look at the principles by which various methods of measuring velocity work ; the reader interested in the arrangements of a full working system and the procedures for operating it should follow up the references . |
| 11 | ‘ It should speed up the whole process and save money for companies currently using outside computer services , ’ said , project manager for Management Information Services at Courtaulds Coatings Inc . |
| 12 | It must for example , ensure an independent judiciary , provide health and education services , basic infrastructure and maintenance and it must bring about the economic environment that allows the private sector to create jobs and growth . |
| 13 | The centralization and concentration of capital produces pressures on the state to intervene on behalf of the monopolies because the state has to regulate the contradictions of monopoly capitalism : it must smooth out the business cycle . |
| 14 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 15 | Could it be that it might shake up the cosy , old fashioned world of the LTA ? |
| 16 | Mind you , these birds are very quick and it might pick up a few words which could be useful . ’ |
| 17 | It 'll trigger off a signal which means you need assistance . ’ |
| 18 | Greg forbore to ask how someone with an accent like that would know , and said instead : ‘ It 'll bring in a tidy sum if it 's a best-seller , I suppose . ’ |
| 19 | Think it 'll end up a bop ? |
| 20 | And pay her back so it 'll make up the up to one thirty . |
| 21 | It 'll keep up the demand for English actors . |
| 22 | " Yeah , maybe it 'll thin out a bit in there , now it 's getting late . " |
| 23 | For example , if you 're copying files onto a few floppies , it 'll work out the files that will best fit into each disk . |
| 24 | The way it works in three , is it only uses memory within these five hundred and twelve row boundaries , so any between one and five one two , five one three and one O two four , one O two five and one five three six and so on , it 'll fill in the gaps within those ranges , but not outside of those ranges . |
| 25 | Here 's the bank — see the queue along the street from the cash point — people who 've got pots of money in that bank and all they 've got to do is press a few buttons and it 'll spew out a wad of crisp notes into their delicately manicured hand . |
| 26 | Sun got Adobe 's source code in the deal , a reasonably rare occurrence , but Adobe figures it 'll get back a lot of implementation improvements . |
| 27 | Discipline was important , indeed essential , because in the widest sense of the word , it could open up a more ordered world . |
| 28 | It could open up a whole new range of products , especially portable equipment . |
| 29 | Bad news followed in his wake ; the French company went bankrupt before it could pay out the cheque . |
| 30 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |