Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants growth on the scale of Korea and to ‘ uncouple the Northern Irish economy from the mainland ’ — at the moment he fears that it may be dragged back by the South East . |
| 2 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 3 | A project set up to generate a new product or process may be an in-house activity utilizing the company 's own staff and resources , or it may be contracted out to another organization . |
| 4 | But this means it may be moving out of our control . |
| 5 | It may be built up into shore features without undergoing movement along the beach or , more commonly , it is transported along the beach to a point where natural factors allow it to accumulate and to be built up by wave action . |
| 6 | If a new factory creates a pollutant which is about as poisonous as , say , privet leaves , it may be heckled out of business . |
| 7 | If one of these people has HIV , it may be passed on to the other person . |
| 8 | While it may be frowned on by purists , it is a practical way round the problem of cutting on dialogue , and if it is done with sensitivity it is not too obtrusive . |
| 9 | it may be marked out on the ground , but the true circle is that which the magician creates mentally . |
| 10 | To recognise where a reform is urgently required and must be effected at any cost , or where it may be postponed , or where it may be counted on to effect itself without outside influence , and , perhaps most important of all , to be able to recognise the fact that certain reforms would be beneficial could they be effected but that it is not possible to effect them at all ; to be able to arrive at a right decision on such points as these is what is chiefly required of a Resident . |
| 11 | Unless the glider is going to be launched without delay , it should be turned out of wind and held with the into-wind wing down until it is needed . |
| 12 | The instructions warn that if the stove burns with a high yellow flame it should be turned off at the fuel valve and allowed to cool . |
| 13 | Although the chosen noise should initially be loud enough to gain the baby 's attention , it should be turned down to background level after 30 seconds . |
| 14 | It was a matter of great personal pride to Ceauşescu that every item in the palace and every part of it should be made out of Romanian products only . |
| 15 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 16 | Thus , in lighter winds , it should be kept down on all points of sailing . |
| 17 | Once the soil has been dug , it should be broken up with a fork , hoe , back of a rake , by hand , with a hand fork , or whatever you find most convenient , until it reaches the stage at which raking it backwards and forwards , and then crossways , reduces it to the fine tilth described . |
| 18 | Then with a sudden ecstatic rush , we all resolved at once that it should be put up across the gate and the military must accept responsibility for destroying it . |
| 19 | He thought that it should be tried out on the Scots . |
| 20 | The Countryside Commission claims that it will ruin the view from the mountain , but the developers argue that it should be looked on with pride as a source of non-polluting energy . |
| 21 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 22 | If an individual 's conduct is thought to justify it , dismissal could be without notice , but generally it should be carried out in accordance with the notice set out in a member of staff 's contract of employment . |
| 23 | Britain , is determined that it should be worked out by member governments . |
| 24 | It will force you to think and plan what to do with every item and if necessary give specific instructions about when it should be brought back for your attention . |
| 25 | If a , the violence is within marriage it should be sorted out within the marriage which I , you know , I do n't agree with . |
| 26 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
| 27 | It recommends that it should be taken over by the academy because of its focus on basic research and that it should at the same time establish links with a university . |
| 28 | Thereafter it should be opened up for general discussion . |
| 29 | ‘ Cricket ’ , remarked Pelham Warner sternly , ‘ is not a circus , and it would be far better that it should be driven back to the village green … than yield a jot to the petulant demands of the spectator . ’ |
| 30 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |