Example sentences of "[coord] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans ; this kept French troops from the battlefield .
2 It may record its disagreement but ultimately accept the majority 's support of the development ; it may refuse to meet its financial obligations until the organisation ceases the action in question , although this may itself be contrary to the treaty ; it may regard the action as having no legal effect ; or it may withdraw from the organisation .
3 The law of that state as to the service of documents originating abroad may permit documents to be sent directly to the defendant without the use of any local official acting as intermediary , or it may insist on the documents passing through , for example , the court having jurisdiction at the defendant 's place of residence , the parquet attached to that court , or a huissier practising in the relevant area .
4 On scenting an alarm pheromone , an ant may do any of a variety of things : it may run away from the source of the scent ; it may freeze and ‘ play dead ’ , or it may run towards the source of the scent and attack any nearby enemies .
5 Erm a new factory going into the area for example will have a choice between one of Selby 's erm ca n't think of a suitable adjective , large requirement for industrial land , or it will go into the new settlement .
6 It also freezes well , or it will keep in the fridge for a day or two .
7 With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning .
8 ‘ the notion of public interest has its limitations and in many cases it will not be served by dissemination of information about a person charged with a criminal offence or it must yield to the need to secure a fair trial for such a person .
9 So you can join any two opposite corners and it 'll go through the centre .
10 It emerges from the above discussion that man-machine allocation of function is at best an oversimplification and it may lead to the neglect of some key features of human performance .
11 I 've tried it with Episode 1 , and it may work for the other two episodes as well .
12 This system of learning is very different for some students and it might help at the beginning of the academic year to introduce them to it in a more measured way and look at points of pressure during the year and see if they can be released without lowering standards
13 And when they fished there they would inevitably lose tackle , and it would stay in the lake forming a hazard for the ducks and swans .
14 And it would result in the Bank of England no longer having to support the pound .
15 and it would appear in the simple times , before mine , even I had experience at Newark , that men could get a sub in the week because you 're actually in two days you 've actually earnt two days money and you have n't got it .
16 If that impression were unfortunately given — I am sure that it will not be — investment from both British and international investors , would be deflected from this country and it would go to the continent to other areas likely to adopt the single currency .
17 If the IRB truly wanted to develop the game worldwide , it would consolidate FIRA under one international body , make all rugby-playing nations full members and it would apply to the International Olympic Committee to get rugby included in the Summer Olympics .
18 Scarborough manager Ray McHale said Hewitt 's wrist was in plaster and it would take until the middle of next month for the injury to heal .
19 Really the Council is in a position where it must act upon complaint , and it must look at the complaints and comments that 's been received .
20 And obviously the new settlement is a very important sub-regional er planning proposal , and it must comply with the overwhelming run of sub-regional planning policy which is to avoid doing anything which would erm undermine the regeneration of West Yorkshire .
21 The idea is that they 'll breathe in the gene from an inhaler and it will attach to the walls of cells in the lungs .
22 If a loop in the cable is overlooked , it becomes a small kink and it will fail on the very next launch .
23 If the term is broken , then it will be classified in the light of the facts surrounding the breach and it will depend on the facts as to whether the breach goes to the root of the contract .
24 Thus , a lease for seven years " from 25 March 1970 " will begin at midnight between 25 March 1970 and 26 March 1970 ; and it will end at the stroke of midnight at the end of 25 March 1977 .
25 And it will win in the end . ’
26 Leave the carriage at plain knitting and it will knit in the E position needles with ease on the first of the rows that follow .
27 It will view the events of Maastricht as important , but as yesterday 's agenda , and it will marvel at the failure of countries and their leaders to grasp the opportunities for progress .
28 This has been a relatively frequent event in Iceland and it can lead to the rapid melting of large volumes of ice and the release of enormous quantities of water , creating a cataclysmic flood known as a jokulhlaup ( although such floods can also be produced by other means ( see Section 11.4.1 ) ) .
29 It had yellow hair and it used to swim in the sea when we chucked sticks for it .
30 I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference .
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