Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence .
2 It may have unlimited funds or it may have very tight ones ; most fall somewhere in between so you have to think creatively about raising the additional finance to do the job properly .
3 For example , it may become tacitly accepted practice in a market exactly to match the price changes of the largest firm .
4 Even if this does not produce actual fracture it may cause very slight opening up of any planes of weakness in the presence of water , a case of a mechanical effect aiding a chemical process and a possible explanation of the success of the second part of Grigg 's experiments in producing alteration on the surface of his block of granite ( see Chapter 3 ) .
5 It may seem very elementary lace but it is pretty and can be worked in a variety of yarns and , in particular , it does demonstrate how the process works .
6 It may seem somewhat curious logic to decide whether empirically determined facts can only be accepted provided that they can be explained , but one can understand the attitude when the facts seem less than certain .
7 Secondly , with long-established products it may put off loyal users if you start messing about with ‘ their ’ brand and what they believe it to stand for .
8 Better contraception does not necessarily mean lower fertility , although it should mean less unwanted fertility .
9 It should contain only peaceful species .
10 If the BMA is to be taken seriously then it should espouse more worthy causes that have some prospect of success rather than politically correct harebrained schemes such as this , which is as likely to bear fruit as ‘ pigs are to fly , ’ to quote the two speakers .
11 Each line had its speciality ; it might comprise exceptionally small girls , or very tall ones , or talented acrobats , but whatever the speciality , all could sing and dance .
12 It might put less determined hackers off , but it does not remove the challenge so it wo n't stop hacking . ’
13 It might put off likely customers .
14 For many women this will cause no problems but for some it might cause very substantial difficulties .
15 Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel .
16 The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney .
17 Strathclyde believes it could developed environmentally safe sea dumping .
18 And if they are genuine it could open up old wounds in Russia where there is still bitter feeling over how the execution has been constantly covered-up by communists , including leader Boris Yeltsin .
19 It could explain why heavy objects fall to the ground ( seeking their natural place at the centre of the universe ) , it could explain the action of siphons and liftpumps ( the explanation being based on the impossibility of a vacuum ) , and so on .
20 His article gives an insight into how the world of education sees quality and the benefits it could bring in non-industrial environments .
21 Some students entering it could have quite other claims and qualifications than A-level English .
22 It could have very serious implications . ’
23 He remembered Charity saying something about Anpetuwi being a bit magic — it could turn even bad things around so that they were good .
24 John Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , told the conference it would bring together existing strands of work and report directly to David Maclean , the junior minister responsible for food .
25 Readability Plus entered the shareware arena after a successful period as standard commercial software , but publishers Scandinavian PC Systems thought it would reach more potential users from the shareware catalogues .
26 It would make very significant incursions into our much against our wishes , to accommodate that , so that we would be looking to North Yorkshire to and work to the same levels of migration , the trend in migration as it were .
27 For some staff it would guarantee jobs for life , and it would mean more flexible shop floor working as well as the end to clocking on .
28 The Australian government in August 1989 announced that it would carry out compulsory blood tests on potential immigrants and would in principle ban all those who were HIV-infected .
29 This Minotaur was imprisoned in a labyrinth beneath the Palace of Knossus and , as it would eat only human flesh , each year seven handsome youths and seven beautiful maidens were sent in to the monster 's lair to meet their doom .
30 It is typical of the Labour party 's attitude that it would fritter away additional resources by spending more money not on increasing the number of training places but on paying more to those already in training places .
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