Example sentences of "that it [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concern about our motives in doing the research was combined with a feeling that it would do those participating in it little good , but would certainly benefit those in the police management and outside who wanted to do them harm . |
| 2 | He argued , along with Balcon , Pearson and Woolf , that it would do nothing to achieve the FBI 's objectives . |
| 3 | These are that Japan now matters as much to America as America does to Japan , and that it would do both some good if Japan acted accordingly . |
| 4 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 5 | ‘ I can not see that it would do much good . ’ |
| 6 | It is , therefore , worth pointing out , before we come to the consideration of legal sovereignty specifically , that even if Parliament could pass certain laws , it is improbable , in greater or lesser degree , that it would do so . |
| 7 | I should , of course , have guessed that it would do the opposite . |
| 8 | A new study by two British economists shows that it would do just the opposite * . |
| 9 | And on April 29th France suddenly decided not to lift its border controls , despite promises that it would do so on July 1st under the Schengen agreement that aims to abolish passport controls for citizens of nine of the 12 members states . |
| 10 | The constitutional implications of the crisis were underlined by the Supreme Court which on Dec. 6 drew attention to the unprecedented failure of an elected state government to uphold court orders despite a formal assurance that it would do so [ see pp. 39193-94 . ] |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see that it would do any harm , ’ said the Direktor glumly . |
| 12 | The neo-classical economists argued that it would do so and , therefore , that all Keynes had done in effect was to add a single assumption to the neo-classical system : the assumption that wages and prices were inflexible downwards because of the existence of trade unions and other restrictive practices ( which , of course , was well known anyway ) . |
| 13 | But do you think that it would do that ? |
| 14 | As Cobbett said afterwards , the people had wanted the Act " that it might do us some good ; that it might better our situation … and not for the gratification of any abstract or metaphysical whim . " |
| 15 | There would be an orgy of spending with no restraint , regardless of the damage that it might do to ratepayers , community charge payers or whatever they may be called . |
| 16 | That is absolutely contrary to the constitutional position that Parliament can alter an Act previously passed , and it can do so by repealing in terms the previous Act — Mr Hill agrees that it may do so — and it can do it also in another way — namely , by enacting a provision which is clearly inconsistent with the previous Act . |
| 17 | Not that it 'll do any good . ’ |
| 18 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 19 | The General Assembly was available and equipped to fulfil this role , and it was therefore logical that it should do so . |
| 20 | That it should do so is important to the well-being of the Principality as a whole . |
| 21 | My guess is that the German authority is waiting to be forced by outside opinion to reimpose some form of genuine , serious ban ; but that it will do so only at a price — that of an assurance from other major national authorities that they will actively target specific drug-suspects under their own jurisdiction , proceeding upon information they may already possess but have chosen not to ‘ activate ’ . |
| 22 | If a manufacturer of a product says ‘ It can do this and that ’ then my expectation is that it will do exactly what the manufacturer says it can do . |
| 23 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 24 | I 'm very hopeful that it will do some good . ’ |
| 25 | 8 Make a final check on the photograph before it is taken to ensure that it will do its job . |
| 26 | Although the artefact may stand for a particular form of production , it can not be assumed that it will do so , or that the divisions which appear as significant from one perspective upon modern society will necessarily emerge as the major dimensions of differentiation in the object world . |
| 27 | We have heard no suggestion that recourse to Parliamentary history has significantly increased the cost of litigation in Australia or New Zealand and I do not believe that it will do so in this country . |
| 28 | I believe that it will do so because we are fortunate to have a staff who have gained a world-wide reputation for their efficiency and courtesy . |
| 29 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 30 | With a few exceptions , I suspect that it will do very little . |