Example sentences of "it [vb mod] run [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When a Steam Tank ploughs through a unit it will probably hit several models and it may run over several units in a turn if it is lucky . |
| 3 | The company has predicted that it may run out of money as early as July without new customers or an infusion of cash from the outside . |
| 4 | The company has predicted that it may run out of money as early as July without new customers or an infusion of cash from the outside . |
| 5 | Is the wiring in good condition ? — it should run directly into a switch and fuse ( no plugs and sockets ! ) . |
| 6 | The thing is , the machine tool industry or super precision requirements be become use and take for granted a noise specification , the fact that it must run quietly . |
| 7 | So as I say I think it 'll , I think it 'll , it 'll run okay and behave itself on the assumption you can get some people to fill it in so er |
| 8 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 9 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 10 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 11 | The supply is adequate for the moment , but with 500 families arriving every month , it could run out . |
| 12 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 13 | First I think it would run completely counter to our internationalist traditions to say that because we have a temporary difficulty , we do n't want the workers of the other er other eleven member states to benefit from a new Social Chapter . |
| 14 | It would run away , you 'd get meltdown . |
| 15 | The two decided Heron 's losses in America and the impact of recession on housing and property closer to home would mean it would run out of money in late 1993 . |
| 16 | If you could only stretch or you know turn your head a certain way it would run out . |
| 17 | And yet if he were to look further afield , if he followed the curve of the river as far as he was able to see , he knew that in turn , it would run smoothly into the sea . |
| 18 | It will run away from us . |
| 19 | and you 're calling it for ages but you ca n't go near it cos it will run away and it goes like this to you , it goes |
| 20 | In Use Since this a preview , based on Beta software , we expect there to be some odd little quirks and funnies in the program , and that it will run slower than the final release version . |
| 21 | The work commenced at the beginning of November and it will run through until May 1994 . |
| 22 | However , a thinned shot flies very low and with a lot of run so the chances are it will run straight through the green . |
| 23 | It is less ambiguous than the previous version but still suggests that if your car will run on standard unleaded petrol , it will run even better on Super Plus unleaded . |
| 24 | 4 Place the new roll on the reel/spindle , feed the end through into the receipt-holder section and make sure that it will run smoothly . |
| 25 | It will run initially for three months but may become permanent if it seems to fulfil a need . |
| 26 | Reportedly it will run initially on Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc hardware and on Microsoft Corp Windows or X-Windows or Motif clients and uses Informix , Sybase and Oracle as databases . |
| 27 | If we continue to use the countryside in an exploitative manner it will run out . |
| 28 | This capital is running out , and if we export industrial agriculture to the Third World it will run out faster . |
| 29 | If the marble is not moving fast enough it will run out of kinetic energy before it reaches the top , come to a momentary halt , and then roll back down again the way it came . |
| 30 | The money that the Minister has provided has been recycled more times than I can count — although he talks about it as if it were new money — and it will run out in April , but there is still no commitment to replace it . |