Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [verb] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And it was such a natural thing for her to do if she truly had n't a care that it would lull any suspicion . |
| 13 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 14 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 15 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 16 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 17 | Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary . |
| 18 | But I ca n't see in the long run that it would make any difference to what we 've been talking about , seeing who Maggie is . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see that it would do any harm , ’ said the Direktor glumly . |
| 21 | He said that Buthelezi 's approach threatened to bring him into " direct confrontation " with the government in Pretoria.The ANC said that Buthelezi 's purpose was to sabotage national negotiations and that it would boycott any referendum called to test the plan . |
| 22 | The Italian government had earlier announced that it would repatriate all Albanians who had not found jobs or obtained political refugee status by July 15 , the deadline for a new immigration law . |
| 23 | The Act does not define what actually constitutes an artistic work , though it is generally accepted that it would cover any product made by an artist or craftsperson , which is normally unique , hand-made and makes a personal expressive statement . |
| 24 | I believe that it would cost many people their jobs and would cause far more damage than good . |
| 25 | The only difference was that the consortium 's report said that it would cost another £250 million for subsidence damage . |
| 26 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 27 | Although it was especially developed for babies at risk of allergy , many nutritionists believe that it would benefit all babies to follow a similar , gradual pattern of weaning , If your family is not allergy prone , you can adapt it to suit your needs , circumstances and baby . |
| 28 | But it , I can quite see that it would bother some people . |
| 29 | I also envisage that it would review all audit qualifications of public interest companies and refer them as necessary to other statutory regulatory bodies . |
| 30 | The project has drawn heavy criticism from environmental and human rights activists , who warned that it would submerge some forests and erode others , disrupt fisheries , increase the risk of malaria and other insect-borne diseases , and fail to supply useful amounts of water to those areas of drought-stricken Gujarat most in need of it . |