Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may sit tight in the reasonable hope that either the economic strain proves too great and Syria 's military strength is sapped by political and economic instability , or that Syria will dissipate its strength against its eastern adversary , Iraq . |
| 2 | 15.1 The Publisher shall publish the Work in the name of the Susan Parks , Gerard Bates , Mary Lee Wholey and Anna Thibeault as authors with reference to Concordia University , Center for Continuing Education , Montreal , Canada as the sponsor and in the event of the Work being revised by other persons in the future the Publisher shall be free to publish the Work in joint names or as it may consider appropriate in the circumstances without , however , omitting the name of the Proprietor . |
| 3 | 14.1 The Publisher shall publish the Work in the names of the Authors and in the event of the Work being revised by other persons in the future the Publisher shall be free to publish the Work in joint names or as it may consider appropriate in the circumstances . |
| 4 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
| 5 | This is a speculative proposal , merely , and it may fall foul of the fact that in our image-ridden culture reading is difficult , and literary texts still demand to be read , rigorously and carefully . |
| 6 | How many times God must be saying to us what he said in anticipating Israel 's doubts after the exile : ‘ Even if it may seem impossible to the survivors of this nation on that day , will it also seem impossible to me ? ’ |
| 7 | No one wanted to pay for music ; the general feeling was that it should flow free from the celestial spheres . |
| 8 | It 's wicked that it should bloom unseen in the wild . |
| 9 | It must seem dull from the outside . |
| 10 | Jimmy said he really enjoyed playing , but his slight worry about it was that at £13.99 it might prove expensive for the unemployed . |
| 11 | It might look nice on the shelf , but it 's a real |
| 12 | Over the long haul , my penis might be more of a curse than a blessing and it might fall short of the goals I set for it . |
| 13 | Dismal though it might seem relative to the great hopes earlier , this was perhaps the high point for the accommodation of the nationalists . |
| 14 | And I 've got no make-up remover — my make-up 's inches thick — it 'll go streaky in the night — if my eyes water , the mascara 'll run down my cheeks — and I 'll have no mirror to check my face before anyone sees me in the morning . |
| 15 | But very often you 'll see wa men will wa go horizontal , then it 'll go vertical round the corner , then nearly horizontal or at forty five down the stairs . |
| 16 | The temperature should reach 12 Celsius , 54 Fahrenheit , and it 'll feel pleasant in the light breeze . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect it 'll come right in the end . ’ |
| 18 | It 'll look great on the beach , as an evening top under a pretty blouse or under a jacket for work . |
| 19 | I ca n't imagine that George is gon na continuing doing that forever and it may well be that we 'll be faced with a possibility of , of what we do in the future to have that piece of administration done will we be able to assume that it could done voluntary in the future ? |
| 20 | Apart from helping to reduce patient waiting lists it could do away with the need for exploratory operations in certain cases , particularly spinal and knee complaints . |
| 21 | I reckoned it 'd have t'run' from the house to a point outside the perimeter fence , cuz that 'd take 'em clear of anyone who wuz in control of the grounds . |
| 22 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 23 | He thought that if he shot the barracuda behind the head , it would leap clear of the water with its jaws snapping . |
| 24 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 25 | With the match looking as though it would end goalless at the interval David Tate broke down the right and from his cross Ged Kennedy forced the ball home to give Eppleton the lead . |
| 26 | The trouble is that no other country is prepared to pay even as much ( ie , little ) as the Russians for surplus EC butter ; much of it would go rancid in the Community 's cold stores . |
| 27 | P.B. All of this , which would go I think contrary … much of it would go contrary to the basic Catholic belief . |
| 28 | It was a plain , basic , rock-bottom hatchback , but it would do fine for the distance and had the extra advantage of childproof locks on the rear doors . |
| 29 | In his review of the production of 84 Charing Cross Road ( 8 March ) Aaron Hicklin observes that ‘ it would sound great on the radio ’ . |
| 30 | Rollin condemns it outright , and most instances of it would fall foul of the UK 1986 Act ( sections 14 and 15 ) : |