Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not make particularly amusing reading , and at first glance it may seem odd that Eliot was willing to enter the spirit of such occasions . |
| 2 | It may seem self-evident that submarine lava flows should be different from those formed on land , and that their formation should be accompanied by violent interaction between sea water and hot lava . |
| 3 | In a month when Harpers & Queen magazine devotes several pages to the lost art of manners , it may seem strange that parents should send their daughters from the most polite nation in the world to this newly graceless country . |
| 4 | It may seem strange that lawyers might have a vested interest in making the law move faster . |
| 5 | It may seem strange that Vitruvius , a Roman architect in the first century BC , interpreted by Palladio , an Italian in the sixteenth century , should have made such a mark upon Georgian England , but the values of Augustan Rome and Renaissance Italy have much in common with those of the Enlightenment . |
| 6 | It may seem curious that physics , on the face of it the most challenging and exciting of disciplines , a discipline whose discoveries have transformed the world we live in , should be taught in a way which demands little creativity or imagination . |
| 7 | When there has been little substantial work done on course aims and objectives , and just as few examples of documented course aims and objectives at institutional level , it may seem anomalous that evaluation could be attempted or studied in any significant way . |
| 8 | It may seem obvious that employers ' work-force policies will affect employees ' experiences of work and their outlook towards work . |
| 9 | At first sight it may seem unlikely that computers and computer software could kill or cause serious injury , but negligent liability does not stop at personal injury but extends to damage to property . |
| 10 | It may prove difficult because individuals may not be able to see the whole of the organisation since they are so wrapped up in their own specialised part of it . |
| 11 | The difference is that , in the former , it does not matter where the model is landed-as long as the area is clear of people and property- or how untidy the landing is , while , in the latter case , it must look good and land on a small spot . |
| 12 | It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place . |
| 13 | Given that crime is behaviour that breaks rules , it might seem odd that functionalists argue that it is necessary and useful for society . |
| 14 | The Security Council has wisely ruled out the death penalty , however much it might seem justified as retribution . |
| 15 | The firm says it 'll have TPC-C and TPC-D figures by the second quarter of next year . |
| 16 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 17 | Hopefully it 'll get noisy when premiership action draws close . |
| 18 | and his screws , touch it with a soldering iron something hot , you know , the head in it , it 'll get warm and sort of sometimes cracks the , separates the rust from the |
| 19 | For this reason it would appear likely that bones modified as greatly as these would be uncommon in the fossil record , and the predators that produce them unlikely to be important contributors to fossil bone assemblages . |
| 20 | It would take more than pistols to counter a new challenge from the army . |
| 21 | But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship . |
| 22 | ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’ |
| 23 | It would seem logical that reassignment need only be considered in respect of positions for which the disabled employee is qualified . |
| 24 | It would seem sensible that strategies to help Sheffield , with the recent and very sudden collapse of its steel industry , may not be able to assist Liverpool or Newcastle , where steel has never been an important industry and where decline has been long-term . |
| 25 | If income is part of ‘ ability to pay ’ , then it would seem clear that wealth is also . |
| 26 | It would seem clear that Paul was doing something of which Jesus himself would have disapproved . |
| 27 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 28 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 29 | It would seem obvious that Inday was killed by the intransigence of Western banks , like Barclays ; by the harsh conditions imposed by the IMF ; by the malevolent impact of Del Monte ; and by the economic policies of successive Philippine governments . |
| 30 | The offence of murder is restricted to intent , and it would seem natural that recklessness as to the same consequences should amount to the lesser offence of manslaughter . |