Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 2 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 3 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 4 | You an also bed the crazy paving or slabs directly on to the surface of wet concrete , but you will have problems in achieving a completely level finish , because when you tap one piece down level it will force one of the previously laid pieces upward . |
| 5 | In its apparent exemplification of the replacement of religion by poetry it would fit the demands of many liberal intellectuals after the religious crisis of the 1830s . |
| 6 | If they would n't have made a scrap of slate it would have a world of difference to this strike . |
| 7 | In order to make sense of a self that has ‘ survived ’ both discourses of colonialism it would seem that Bhimji 's strategy has been one of intense resourcefulness , gathering in herself and her experiences . |
| 8 | No , I do n't think I 'd go for a house that erm I would n't but those big houses of course it would have alarms would n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ With a bit of luck it 'll stay over in Manchester , ’ Otley said . |
| 10 | Sight down the neck again , and with a bit of luck it should have moved to form a ‘ crown ’ or hump . |
| 11 | But if yo , if it was bitter and a bit of lemonade it would drink it , nothing else . |
| 12 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 13 | The kind of knowledge it can hold consists of preferred settings of all its visible nodes . |
| 14 | Little thought has gone into what kind of service it should provide . |
| 15 | Although it 's specifically marketed for use with antiques , there 's no end to the kind of property it can tag . |
| 16 | When I was younger I was often upset by criticism and innuendo but I learnt that if you become involved with this kind of thing it will end up by gnawing you away . |
| 17 | Thus if we were to compile a checklist of leadership it would comprise the following : |
| 18 | Any notice direction or communication given hereunder by one party to the other if sent by post to the last known place of business of the other party shall be deemed to have been served on the date when in the ordinary course of post it would have been delivered to the other party . |
| 19 | Psalm 48.12–13 bears witness to a similar procession round the walls of Jerusalem , though in the case of Jericho it would have had the particular significance of a celebration of God 's gift of the Land and conquest achieved with his might . |
| 20 | As Hannah Arendt has shown , in times of crisis the existence of a formless mass can become the basis for a totalitarian dictatorship ; in times of prosperity it can lead to an all-encompassing smugness and self-satisfaction and to the existence of a regime which knows no criticism , no control and , above all , no real opposition and thus no arguments which contain alternatives . |
| 21 | Consider the size , structure and special features of the hotel and what special type of event it could lend itself to , e.g. mediaeval banquets etc . |
| 22 | And if anyone could bottle that particular type of reassurance it would make a million overnight , the thought flitted inconsequentially into her mind . |
| 23 | What Mill feared in democracy was less the type of government it might produce than the dominance , within society , of what he saw as a monolithic body of mediocre public opinion , which would be intolerant of dissent or even mere eccentricity . |
| 24 | On this type of water it can become the luck of the draw with so many small fish out numbering the larger carp and it is difficult to be selective . |
| 25 | If I let life on this planet die out and send the slug into space , then , since it will exist for ever , the quantity of pleasure it will enjoy will eventually outweigh all the pleasures enjoyed on this earth for ten thousand years . |
| 26 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 27 | If the Poltergeist can be driven out of the chamber by a Zone of Sanctuary it will flee , as its bounded area is the whole Tower . |
| 28 | ‘ If we could revive Monaghan Day for Daddy it could help to start him back to himself . |
| 29 | For AT&T to be seriously contemplating selling off Unix it would have to be guaranteed a self-sustaining source of the software , since so many of its internal operations , like telephone switching , are Unix-dependent . |
| 30 | The horse 's temperament is extremely important to us , because as its basis of personality it will interact with our personality and determine how successful our horse-partnership will be . |