Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 2 | InsP 3 does not appear to play any part in the maturation of invertebrate and amphibian eggs , but it may contribute to the spontaneous maturation of bovine oocytes . |
| 3 | It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love . |
| 4 | It may lead to the complete disappearance of a consonant , as in castle or a partial transformation as in irresistible , originally in-resistible . |
| 5 | Because of its foundation-plus-option course structure , it is difficult to place the Open University in the diagram , but it may tend towards the academic and general at least at the undergraduate level . |
| 6 | It may clash with the international North West ‘ 200 ’ road race . |
| 7 | That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards . |
| 8 | It may amount to the irrelevant truth , that propositional or abstract objects , which enter into the contents of many mental events , are not in space . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it may revolve around the only subject there is in England . ’ |
| 10 | In some it may approximate to the full panoply of procedural safeguards including notice , oral hearing , representation , discovery , right to cross examine and reasoned decisions , etc. ; in others it may connote considerably less . |
| 11 | I 've tried it with Episode 1 , and it may work for the other two episodes as well . |
| 12 | Surprising as it may seem in the 1980s , there was great uncertainty both within Japan and outside about how long the boom would last . |
| 13 | Cobden-Sanderson quarrelled with Emery Walker and , through the mediation of Sydney Cockerell , came to an agreement that Cobden-Sanderson should retain the Doves type for his lifetime , after which it should pass to the younger man . |
| 14 | reaffirmed the high landscape value of the appeal site and its determination that it should remain in the Green Belt . |
| 15 | The criterion was that , if a particular business was essentially pan-European from a production standpoint , it should go into the new grouping . |
| 16 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 17 | What is more , because this youthful community has little contact with the older generation it has increasingly little reason to see why it should defer to the older generation 's judgement . |
| 18 | The government has to get money from somewhere , and it is logical that it should look at the whole area of VAT . |
| 19 | It should look over the front shoulder and not under the armpit ; if you do this , you will find that the rest of the upper body will tend to face forwards in the proper way . |
| 20 | So it should come at the same |
| 21 | Clearly then , if the company is to choose one it should opt for the first . |
| 22 | Their relationship was n't built on solid foundations , so it was hardly surprising , was it , that it should collapse at the first sign of trouble ? |
| 23 | Sole practitioners tended to argue that , if adopted , it should apply to the whole profession , or perhaps simply to those firms where there was evidence that reconciliations were not being undertaken in accordance with the rules . |
| 24 | Critics say it should apply along the whole stretch . |
| 25 | It should get on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 26 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 27 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 28 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 29 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |
| 30 | This need not be an existing identifier but , as the list is presented in descending numerical order , it should approximate to the highest identifier required . |