Example sentences of "it [modal v] all [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we spend a season trying to adjust — a tough job in particular for the senior players who have spent up to 20 years operating a certain way — and then find it may all change again weeks before the British Lions fly down to New Zealand . |
| 2 | ‘ I just ca n't believe it may all go to waste , ’ says Alison Knapp , a theatre manager who has seen the whole project through since it was first planned in 1983 . |
| 3 | It may all look a little complicated at first , but camcorders are quite simple things to use if you tackle the job in an orderly fashion . |
| 4 | The danger for the Government is that it may all come just a bit too late to expunge the memories of our current travails and of too long a period of neglect for the supply-side of the economy to respond . |
| 5 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 6 | The new democracies have a respectable claim to some of that dividend but America 's inclination , at present , is that it should all go to reducing the budget deficit . |
| 7 | That it should all go for nothing : that would be a cheap death indeed . ’ |
| 8 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 9 | Mr Brownlow suggested that half the remaining money from the will should be given to Monks and the other half to Oliver , although by law it should all have gone to Oliver alone . |
| 10 | It should all have ended with her escape from Glenshee ; why was he doing this to her ? |
| 11 | The whole point of a history curriculum might , as a result , be lost when what it should all have led up to , it was thought , was " the modern historical underpinning of every future citizen 's understanding of an economic social , cultural and political development " ( TES 1991c:13 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid it must all come out . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , mama , 't was so romantic their meeting like that — and now it must all come to naught ! ’ |
| 14 | To the outsider , it must all seem very undignified . |
| 15 | ‘ It must all seem so complicated to you . ’ |
| 16 | It must all sound rather tame to today 's children , but it was a happy time ; a time of predictable routine , which gave us a sense of security . |
| 17 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 18 | But this man , when the moment arrived , I think it must all have evaporated for him . |
| 19 | That it might all blow over without any unpleasantness — ’ |
| 20 | It might all end up better than you hoped . ’ |
| 21 | If Dunbar could be lulled first into a false sense of security , it might all go more satisfactorily . |
| 22 | It might all fit together then — in a natural sort of way . ’ |
| 23 | I can see that now , even though I had no idea at the beginning where it might all lead me . |
| 24 | The thought that it might all come to nothing through a peace-outbreak had bankers , politicians and industrialists shaking in their shoes . |
| 25 | As long as President Mengistu held on , there was a real chance that it might all happen again . |
| 26 | To a layman , it might all seem mildly amusing . |
| 27 | It might all have been different had Gooch clung on to either of the two catches Nigel Briers offered him on 26 and 61 . |
| 28 | It might all have ended there if Barbara Coleman had not sought to claim more of Durance 's attention and prolong Joseph 's embarrassment by rushing on to tell how illegal drugs had been discovered beneath the platform . |
| 29 | Tony , ever sensible , ever the peacemaker , suggests that we were all tired , still are , and it might all look better after a cup of tea . |
| 30 | It 'll all blow over . |