Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 2 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 3 | The principle of salvation may be theological , as in the case of religious fundamentalism ; or it may be purely secular , as with ethnic nationalism ; or it may involve some combination of the two . |
| 4 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 5 | A database may hold factual information e.g. facts about Eskimo life or important Eskimo words and their meaning or it may hold bibliographic information ( fiction or non-fiction ) e.g. references to books , slide-sets , films , or periodical articles on Eskimo life and their environment . |
| 6 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 7 | The classification may be an organizational one , arranging detailed criteria into lists , or it may represent some kind of conceptual hierarchy of increasingly higher order objectives . |
| 8 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 9 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 10 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 11 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 12 | If management , as usually conceived , attempts to mediate this role it will either fail utterly because it will be excluded by the people involved , or it will have distorting effects which can only be dysfunctional . |
| 13 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 14 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |
| 15 | Co-operation can focus mainly on the R , the D , or it can couple joint R&D with the joint production and marketing of the output of that R&D , and it can be structured around sharing costs , restrictions put on the other R&D activities of participants , and rules which govern the production and marketing of the output affected by the joint R&D project . |
| 16 | It could prompt a big swing to the Socialists in the second round or it could push left-wing voters to give up altogether . |
| 17 | The mechanisms whereby smoking influences ulcer healing are unknown ; it probably does not affect gastric acidity , although it may alter duodenal motility and acidity . |
| 18 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 19 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 20 | Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data . |
| 21 | In this way it is possible to re-start the routine that was enjoyed previously , although it may take some days of patience to break the new habit . |
| 22 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 23 | Although it may seem expensive cost of getting to Florida , it will be a highlight of your trip . |
| 24 | On the whole it seems likely that the Channel Tunnel will have a minor regional impact in its own right although it could bring short term benefits to depressed areas through , for example , the awarding of Tunnel-related contracts . |
| 25 | All forms of the disease begin as tuberculosis of the lung although it can affect other organs including the membranes encasing the brain and spinal cord , the bones , joints and kidneys . |
| 26 | Having announced the thing way back in September 1989 , IBM Corp is finally promising to have a completed version of its AD/Cycle software engineering-based application development environment by the end of the year and ready to ship to end users by the middle of 1994 — although it will bear little resemblance to the 1989 conception . |
| 27 | The US will retain control of the weapons , although it will consult other countries before giving the order to fire . |
| 28 | Motif is a prime candidate for the fast track , although it will require minor work to integrate it into the X/Open Portability Guide . |
| 29 | The disadvantage of the latter is that it leads to an untidy looking diagram , although it will reveal lower terraces obscured by high ground in the foreground . |
| 30 | The suggestion for a community treatment order was rejected by some , on the grounds that it would infringe civil liberties , there was insufficient research to justify this extra measure , the existing legislation provided a sufficient framework to give the necessary powers to deal with the problem , and changing the law might divert attention from the real need to provide resources to support an acceptable programme of community care . |