Example sentences of "[adj] it [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 2 | We had barely enough food for three months , let alone the four and a half it would take at fifteen miles a day . |
| 3 | The venture — to spotlight National Housing Week — was such a success that hopes are high it will develop into an annual competition . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thousands of people will be on the water this bank holiday weekend — but for some it could end in tragedy . |
| 6 | In prehistoric times , if people made the horse feel anxious or afraid it would run like mad until it had seen the last of them : it fled from the problem , which reduced his fear and anxiety . |
| 7 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 8 | ‘ I am afraid it would have to be Captain Owen , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid it would have to be sticking out . |
| 10 | She turned her head away , afraid it might show on her face . |
| 11 | I was afraid it might rain for Christmas . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid it will have to be . ’ |
| 13 | Well I hope this article clearly shows how to one fishkeeper a species can seem so easy he/she can not stop them breeding , while for another it can seem to be the most difficult fish in the world . |
| 14 | A plectrum helps with accuracy , also adding attack and brightness to the sound , so as such it would appear to be the required compromise . |
| 15 | If this trend is allowed to continue unchecked it may lead to more solicitors finding criminal defences unprofitable and yet another field of work will be lost to the solicitors ' branch of the profession generally . |
| 16 | If this process went on unchecked it should lead to an increasing ripple height , but , as the ripple crests rise , they increasingly interfere with the wind , so that the sand grains on the crests are blown over into the troughs . |
| 17 | He had forgotten how humid it could get in Beirut at that time of year . |
| 18 | the more real it will look like . |
| 19 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the same the whole world over , Sister , ’ he said , ‘ but it 's sad it should come to Ireland as well . ’ |
| 21 | It is something of a family tendency to think everything is enormously exciting no matter how ordinary it might appear to others . |
| 22 | It was the first of such actions , however vague it may appear in remote retrospect , which introduced the concept of ‘ evil ’ . |
| 23 | Similar difficulties can occur if the former matrimonial home was in the names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , for on the death of either it would appear to a purchaser that the survivor had the right to sell ( Law of Property ( Joint Tenants ) Act 1964 , s1(1) ) . |
| 24 | Unauthorised disclosure to the media is no longer described as a ‘ potentially serious breach of contract ’ ( see Lancet Oct 24 , 1992 , p 1031 , and Nov 21 , p 1277 for draft guidance ) , but the new advice says that if such disclosure is judged to be unjustified it could result in disciplinary action . |
| 25 | A poem about a daisy or a butterfly , however quiet in tone and however naive it may appear in isolation , may be read in this context as a hymn to battle against economic thinkers , who could find no place for such useless natural objects in their systems of ideas . |
| 26 | If your behaviour is inappropriate it will detract from , even negate , the message and seriously reduce the likelihood of success . |
| 27 | If the behaviour is inappropriate it will detract from , or even destroy , the message the presentation is designed to convey . |
| 28 | Staw and Szwajkowski attempted to test the following hypothesis : ‘ when the organization is located within a scarce environment , one method of coping with intra- and extra-organizational demands may be to perform activities which are legally questionable … the more scarce the environment of a business organization , the more likely it will engage in activities which are considered unfair market practices or restraints of trade ’ ( 1975 : 346–47 ) . |
| 29 | Again he heard the strong Irish voice ring out — ‘ Did ye get the little bottles ? ’ — and knew that however cosy it might seem in imagination he would never be one of the party hurried through the customs to the English or Irish or Scottish College . |
| 30 | Q My hair is very fine and lank and I 'm sure it would benefit from a perm but I 'm worried that it will break . |