Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 2 | No matter how potentially profitable a business is , it may go under simply because it fails to meet its day to day cash commitments . ’ |
| 3 | When we now roll the ball towards the dent it may circle around once or twice but eventually it will fall through the hole . |
| 4 | It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height . |
| 5 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 6 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
| 7 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
| 8 | The council may then recommend one name for approval to a general meeting of the association , or it may put forward more than one name and leave it to the general meeting to decide . |
| 9 | I feel it should do so now and not keep us waiting . |
| 10 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
| 11 | For a strategy to remain successful , it must do well specifically when it is numerous , that is in a climate dominated by copies of itself . |
| 12 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 13 | It must conform as closely as possible to the prevailing urban view — picturesque , ancient and unchanging . |
| 14 | It 'll go up again when budget comes in as |
| 15 | it 'll go so far and then it just switches off |
| 16 | artery , it 's probably quite easy , the television set , then after that it 'll drop off obviously because the body is pulling the pressure down all the time , it does , okay , but if it was a vein ? |
| 17 | I hope it 'll crash less often than the index . |
| 18 | Erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 19 | Th was it 's a little personal thing w with me , erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
| 20 | It could reach both upwards and downwards to pluck vegetation from all directions on a vast scale , and so lost little time ( or energy ) moving about . |
| 21 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 22 | This place looked solid enough from the inside , but it could change as quickly as your mind . |
| 23 | But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world . |
| 24 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
| 25 | It could turn out eventually that losing your job has led to a whole new and better career . |
| 26 | It need take no longer than it takes you to interview a pupil and make a job offer . |
| 27 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 28 | It would end up longer than when it started , right ? |
| 29 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 30 | so that when it er , come apart you would have some of it together and some of it would bond together so that you could do it yourself then . |