Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather it would give a possible base for the possible erection of two or three possible motives . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it might clear up ? |
| 3 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 4 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 5 | For those who know how , doing yoga for half an hour in the morning , or meditating in a darkened room for ten minutes just before giving the speech will assist , or perhaps it will require nothing more than taking a deep breath before you speak . |
| 6 | Or so it might seem . |
| 7 | The invisible college is a more influential community than the visible college ( or so it might seem ) . |
| 8 | Education is being pushed more towards being an instrument of national policy , or so it would appear to an outsider . |
| 9 | The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour . |
| 10 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 11 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 12 | The smaller the PC , the greater its appeal — or so it would seem . |
| 13 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 14 | No book which offers an overarching educational theory of higher education can afford to neglect teaching and learning ; or so it must seem . |
| 15 | He had been added to confirm his father 's hold on power : if the Congress would passively accept such a nomination then there could be no threat to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's authority from within , or so it must have seemed . |
| 16 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 17 | It may have refused to take into account something it was required to take into account or conversely it may have based its decision on something it was not entitled to take into account and so on … " |
| 18 | Sooner or later it may become impossible for an elderly person or couple to continue living in their own home without support . |
| 19 | During his visit to China in May 1989 [ see p. 36671 ] , Khamenei said that " the decision against Rushdie remain[ed] valid " and declared that " this [ was ] a bullet for which there was a target ; it has been shot ; sooner or later it will reach its target " . |
| 20 | Sooner or later it will occur to him that he has only to command to overthrow us . |
| 21 | Such a mind may become so restless and frustrated with repression that sooner or later it will tear itself on some nail of its own making . |
| 22 | It 's too much , if you ever have too much you can just fold a bit down , if you have a big bandage you can fold either of those edges down first if you 've got too much and then you fold it forward and back , now your pin sticks in , but all the material and out of all the material and it goes in a straight upward direction , again it must go in that direction so that if per chance it comes undone it falls out and drops on the floor , whereas if it was sideways or downwards it would open and stick in your casualty , so that 's why we have it done that way . |
| 23 | If you can understand characteristic curves and have an understanding of what 's happening mathematically or chemically it will help . |
| 24 | If you can understand characteristic curves and have an understanding of what 's happening mathematically or chemically it will help . |
| 25 | Carry on Sergeant may have been made on something of a shoestring ( or maybe it should have been an army bootstring ) with Ken making no more than £800 for his work , but efforts were made to get it all remarkably accurate . |
| 26 | Where it employs professional musicians full- or part-time it should ensure that their salaries take account of their training and qualifications as well as of the time and contribution which they are expected to give to the worship . |
| 27 | I considered simply passing it forward , but some idiot would probably open it and read it out to the whole class , or else it would get intercepted by Mrs Burton who was the last person that I wanted to read it . |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd have to carry on as usual or else it would look suspicious . ’ |
| 29 | In practice , however , the elasticity of demand for imports and exports may not be of an appropriate value or else it may take considerable time before such automatic forces become effective . |
| 30 | or else it may happen . |