Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only fair that tourism should not , like ivy , choke the Alps , since if the ‘ product ’ is not looked after it may slip well past its ‘ sell-by date ’ . |
| 2 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 3 | It took the view that the upper limit is arbitrary , and might operate unfairly , since a person just above the limit receives no assistance , whereas a person just below it might have to make a substantial contribution but would have the security of knowing that that contribution represents the maximum liability for costs regardless of the actual cost or the outcome of the case . |
| 4 | A dado rail , fixed round the room at the level of chair backs , with painted panelling below it will add more character . |
| 5 | save up because fifty pound of it 'll go to my mum to ma , erm mum 's birthday present |
| 6 | Divided , more of it might survive |
| 7 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 8 | She dismissed the taxi at the corner of Dorchester Terrace , thinking that the sight of it might alarm her sister . |
| 9 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 10 | On days when wing inspection would come around and check our tech supplier for spare parts , we would load this trailer with all the illegal spare parts we were n't supposed to have , cos they , like the couple of it might call it for three starters and we had six , seven or eight . |
| 11 | Secondly if the first question is answered affirmatively , it is necessary to consider whether there are any considerations which ought to negative , or to reduce or limit the scope of duty or the class of person to whom it is owed or the damages to which a breach of it may give rise . |
| 12 | Some aspects of it may shock you . ’ |
| 13 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 14 | Great chunks of it may require changes in Company policy and I assume that those are being investigated in the same way as we have been asked to comment . |
| 15 | While much of it may seem blindingly obvious , one non-NHS member of the team behind the strategy points out : ‘ Irrespective of the fact that the approach is well recognised in industry , it 's totally innovative in NHS terms . |
| 16 | Other regions that on the face of it may seem rather benign — including open reaches of tropical ocean — may , for long periods , be almost devoid of life . |
| 17 | Parts of it may seem distasteful , even shocking , but the sad fact is that there are many others who have suffered far worse degradations . |
| 18 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
| 19 | We hope that people trying to read the shell-growth record will now be aware that part of it may have been erased . |
| 20 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 21 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 22 | If there was an increase by 1545 , much of it may have come in the years after 1530 , and become important economically only after the period covered by this book ( 75 , p.69 ) . |
| 23 | More , or even enough , of it may exhaust the allocation of resources for paediatric care . |
| 24 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 25 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 26 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 27 | Most of it would disperse as it found its way through the gravel , and it may not be necessary to form a soakaway at the end of the drain . |
| 28 | Much of it would pass over the relatively sparsely populated area of eastern England and out to sea . |
| 29 | ‘ This is a wonder drug and a single course of it would cost a small fortune — yet you make lots of it through delight . |
| 30 | The mechanics of it would capture the young imagination . |