Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may if more better-off households remain in the urban cores , but to what extent does this trend mean that even more disadvantaged groups will be trapped in the inner cities ? |
| 2 | If sharing between mother and baby was minimal , the baby held too tightly and not allowed to play with breast or bottle , pleasing the self by masturbation may give more satisfaction than intercourse and pleasure given by another , as it may if the baby was left too much on its own , the bottle propped up against the pillow . |
| 3 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 4 | Evidently , if the design of text recognition systems is to be at all inspired , it may as well be by the best natural example available . |
| 5 | Nearly half an inch fell this morning , but it may as well not have bothered . |
| 6 | But the Government may feel that as long as it is going to extend VAT it may as well slap newspapers for 17.5 per cent . |
| 7 | If there 's a form the colour of which is irrelevant , it may as well be on the colour of the wallet . |
| 8 | It 's not growing as it should although it 's feeding well and is quite lively . |
| 9 | It should because that was what was written and I wanted to show people what er she did n't give me , the , the letter went to the kids . |
| 10 | Mill also thinks this is a very good way of introducing female suffrage at this point which he is very much in favour of , if you had a , if you had a vote on it should if you vote if er there was a vote among the male electors about whether women should be given the vote and there was a public ballot , then it 's very unlikely they would vote against the extension of franchise because their wives and daughters would be able to see what they 've done , so he thinks that erm the only reason for having a secret ballot is that you 're rather ashamed of what you 're doing and that if you have a public ballot people will vote much more responsibly . |
| 11 | And it should when you have a bath should n't it ? |
| 12 | no , no its kept I thought it might when you put the Christmas tree on it |
| 13 | It is going , perhaps , less strongly than it might if the techniques that the laboratory uses for dating pottery , wood and other materials — though no-one has yet found a method of dating metals — were not available . |
| 14 | It might if dust never gathered on the old photo albums full of the ex and I whooping it up in Corfu circa 1980 . |
| 15 | ‘ And well it might if he does n't stop wriggling ! ’ snorted the Trunchbull . |
| 16 | Well it might if it was more expensive but I mean it might just be more expensive anyway . |
| 17 | But it might if you keep in touch . |
| 18 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 19 | He was only a few miles away but for him it might as well have been a million miles . |
| 20 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 21 | There is a nettle for a somebody — it might as well be the new Environment Secretary — to grasp . |
| 22 | If somebody 's got to benefit from inequality , her shrug suggests , it might as well be her . |
| 23 | I could not make out where they were going , and made several inquiries without getting any answers save in Gaelic ; it might as well have been Hindostani . |
| 24 | ‘ Montague ’ , an associate says , ‘ felt that if you are going to have a competitor , it might as well be a weak one . ’ . |
| 25 | Still , if you are going to admit the influence of another composer , it might as well be the greatest one of your day . |
| 26 | Bob guffaws : ‘ It might as well be a Pixies song ! |
| 27 | For the all the impact it has on the local political climate , it might as well be in Alaska . |
| 28 | Although the conference was just up the road in Edinburgh this time , it might as well have been in Timbuktu for all the relevance it held for must of us . |
| 29 | CHAMPAGNE BILLECART SALMON ( Oddbins , £16.99 ) : If you 're going to drink the real stuff it might as well be the best . |
| 30 | Gingerly he reached out to touch it ; it might as well have been a physical part of his wife 's anatomy , like an ear or a finger . |