Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | No matter how potentially profitable a business is , it may go under simply because it fails to meet its day to day cash commitments . ’ |
2 | It may take as long as 250 years to reach that height . |
3 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
4 | The process may take 5 minutes , it may take as long as 15 . |
5 | It may take as long as an hour to return to port . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Whether it should happen as often as it does is open to doubt . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
10 | It must conform as closely as possible to the prevailing urban view — picturesque , ancient and unchanging . |
11 | It 'll go up again when budget comes in as |
12 | 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 ? |
13 | I hope it 'll crash less often than the index . |
14 | Erm and I think it 'll happen again tonight as happened a fortnight ago . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This place looked solid enough from the inside , but it could change as quickly as your mind . |
18 | But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world . |
19 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |
20 | It need take no longer than it takes you to interview a pupil and make a job offer . |
21 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
22 | It would end up longer than when it started , right ? |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Many people expected that , if war broke out , it would rise further still as investors sought safe havens . |
25 | The karkadann , despite the violence of its temper , could be seduced by the gentle song of a ringdove , and it would lie perfectly still when this music was heard . |
26 | Oh well that 's really turning it round , is n't it ? erm My feeling is that it would work very well provided there was a , a safeguard , and that is that if you wanted to argue you could . |
27 | It will do so only if it frustrates the contract ( i.e. renders it impossible to carry it out — see Chapter 4 ) . |
28 | I hope that that will evolve in the fullness of time , but it will do so only when the electrification programme is extended to all parts of the country . |
29 | ‘ It will lead precisely nowhere except sitting around will give you a fat arse . ’ |
30 | I do not know whether it will break as easily as that . |