Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates , as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me . |
| 2 | Whenever difficulty is experienced in the course of business , such as dealing with a partner who appears not to be pulling his full weight or a developing personality clash between two partners , if the existing agreement proves inadequate to the task of resolving the dispute it should as a matter of priority be revised so that from then on it sufficiently deals with such matters in a way that takes account of the actual experience . |
| 3 | First , from ( 3 ) we have unc and since only these diagonal elements have changed , it follows that unc as it must in a similar transformation . |
| 4 | Haydon should take comfort , said the novelist , from knowing that no species of legal distress could attack the internal resources of genius , though it might for a time palsy its hand . |
| 5 | as it might around a prayer |
| 6 | It 'll on a Friday afternoon , Friday night |
| 7 | For the tiny group of declared nationalists , cultural and linguistic oppression loomed large , far larger than it could for an illiterate peasantry ( although the use of the Ukrainian language had considerable popular support ) . |
| 8 | Speaking to BBC radio , Lawrence Eagleburger said the US had done what it could for an agreement on farm subsidies , which had derailed the talks . |
| 9 | A high skin means oil can not flow as easily as it could from an undamaged well . |
| 10 | that 's something , but this thing reaches publicity stage , which it could in a couple of weeks time , appear in a paper , you 'd have all sorts of weirdos |
| 11 | The terminals worked on a line by line basis , with the screen information scrolling upwards just as it would on a teleprinter roll . |
| 12 | Water is eight hundred times as dense as air , and the slightest bump or protuberance on the body can cause drag , more even than it would on a bird or an aeroplane . |
| 13 | You do n't need special equipment to hear the effect , so it should provide the same sensaround sound on your crappy hi fi as it would on an expensive job . |
| 14 | You do n't need special equipment to hear the effect , so it should provide the same sensaround sound on your crappy hi fi as it would on an expensive job . |
| 15 | erm what I was putting to you was , do you , do you say that even if it would as a matter of pure English law , it is overridden by community law erm , er , er at least er , at least for the time being |
| 16 | Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House . |
| 17 | If the Comintern , too , decided that the anti-fascist coalition would be weakened in Vietnam by national independence , itself something of a bourgeois concept , and if the Indochina Communist Party followed suit , no matter how reluctantly , it would at a stroke lose a very significant part of its political appeal . |
| 18 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 19 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 20 | When Brau and Brunner AG and Cadbury Schweppes plc notified the creation of a joint venture that would prepare and sell mineral water , the Commission found that this joint venture was not a concentration but a cooperative agreement , because the parent companies would stay active on the soft drinks market and so the structure of competition would not be permanently altered , as it would with a concentration . |
| 21 | This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the marriage does not itself have support from wider society : ‘ There is less pressure for a couple to stay together because their break-up has little impact outside the domestic sphere and causes fewer ripples than it would in a society where kinship is more central to the wider social organization ’ ( Allan , 1985 , p. 104 ) . |
| 23 | In this approach the particle is not supposed to have a single history or path in space-time , as it would in a classical , nonquantum theory . |
| 24 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
| 25 | Well er it would in a way because you 'd have to pay interest on what you were borrowing would n't you ? |
| 26 | If that image changes rapidly in time , as it would in a moving video sequence , for example , then a huge amount of digital information must be stored , transferred and processed to keep up with the requirements of delivering the motion video to the user . |
| 27 | The members of the tribunal should not have any other personal interest in the proceedings ( though on an exchange that is of its nature run by practitioners , this requirement may not be treated as strictly as it would in an ordinary law court ) . |
| 28 | Soft materials , like fibreboards and soft furnishings , also do n't respond , and so prevent sound reflecting or bouncing back off them , as it would from a hard surface like a mirror . |
| 29 | In some cases , vibrational progressions may be observed , and careful analysis of the nature of the vibrations involved can give us an idea of both the symmetry and any changes in structure associated with the transition , just as it can for a band in a valence photoelectron spectrum ( Section 6.6.2 ) . |
| 30 | I need not pursue these issues further here , however , as the results already cited are enough to establish that , given appropriate circumstances , verbal pre-training can influence performance on a recognition task just as it can on a motor task involving discrimination among the pre-trained stimuli . |