Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one who was so instrumental in mapping out the future promise of early Smiths , his quote ‘ If you asked me to write something about The Smiths now it would probably be critical ’ , remained interesting . |
| 2 | But I come from Tobermory , a Scottish island village where it would not be such a craven blunder . |
| 3 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 4 | She fixed her bike among some bushes where it would n't be seen from the lane , and then ran along the grass-verge to the gap in the trees where the path began . |
| 5 | You told them to dump the body in the bay , where it would n't be found for a while . |
| 6 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 7 | A brass plaque was duly struck in Benjamin 's memory and mounted in the church near the organ , where it may still be seen : |
| 8 | RDBI The Relational Database Interface product allows data held by LIFESPAN to be transferred to a relational database where it may then be queried by users . |
| 9 | The two limitations were that recovery will not be available : ( 1 ) where it can properly be said that the payment was made to close the transaction , and ( 2 ) where the payer was mistaken as to the proper interpretation of the statute . |
| 10 | Environmentalists oppose the deep burial method for dealing with radioactive waste , claiming that it constitutes a hazard for many thousands of years and should thus be stored above ground where it can easily be monitored for leakages . |
| 11 | This would be particularly relevant in a management buy-out where it can easily be argued that management has as much knowledge of the business as the vendor . |
| 12 | Equally , if they ask the tribe of their head of state for compensation , they locate the claim to sovereignty where it can not be . |
| 13 | So it is not only the visible and active exercise of power that needs to be equalized , but also the possession of power , which , where it can not be redistributed , must at least be made accountable within the framework of democracy . |
| 14 | There can be no doubt that this sort of help is most valuable for teachers , and where it can not be provided from a curriculum development project itself might in less ambitious form be offered from a teachers ' centre or from a schools library service , although in the latter case the advice on sub-themes and topics would necessarily be tentative rather than prescriptive . |
| 15 | Where it can not be entirely eliminated , human error must be made evident or difficult . |
| 16 | Once the discretion arises it is for the court to conduct the necessary balancing exercise between what would otherwise be required by the Convention and the interests of the children , but only where it can clearly be shown that the interests of the children require it should the court refuse to order their return . |
| 17 | For a powerful kick you have to move your centre of gravity forwards , and this inevitably forces you to drop the spent kicking foot close to the opponent , where it can then be hooked or swept . |
| 18 | But , as with any archaeological object , such interpretations can be made only when we have a secure idea of when and where a coin was made , and the methods of dating coins and attributing them to mints is therefore discussed first in Chapter 2 , where it will also be seen that the same techniques for dating and attributing coins can sometimes be turned round , using coins to date other objects or to identify places . |
| 19 | It will all end up in those grim audio-visual departments where it will eventually be auctioned off for peanuts during a cost-saving period . |
| 20 | Call me an egotistical slime , but I only want to preserve the purity and integrity of the current alternative , and hope that it wo n't pass through the mass-media grinder into the mainstream , where it will eventually be recalled as one more passive , stupid fashion . |
| 21 | Choose a spot where it will not have direct sunlight falling on it and where it will not be overheated by a radiator or other room-heater . |
| 22 | Contingent liabilities where it will not be possible to assess objectively prior to completion the likelihood of crystallisation , the possible timing of crystallisation and/or the financial effect ( for example potential environmental damage claims ) . |
| 23 | ‘ We seek the power in order to do all that , to stop being spectators and start being negotiators , to take our country off the sidelines and put it in the mainstream of advance where it should rightly be . |
| 24 | The reports of the great Parliamentary Commissions , which in the 1830s and 1840s investigated working conditions in factories and mines , were saturated with an obsessive concern with the sexuality of the working class , the social other , displacing in the end the acute social crisis from the area of exploitation and class conflict , where it could not be coped with , into the framework of a more amenable and discussable area of ‘ morality ’ . |
| 25 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 26 | The early light was damp and fresh as the clay when she slipped the wedding band from her finger , putting it carefillly on the shelf , where it could not be lost . |
| 27 | She took two silver coins out of the tin then put it where it could only be found by her . |
| 28 | In the past , psychologists have even claimed that ‘ the world will be saved by the psychologists , or it wo n't be saved at all ’ ( Maslow quoted in Pečjak 1985 : 268 ) . |
| 29 | That is not to say that they do not have particularities , for a particular instance of a shirt has to be of a certain colour , and have pockets or not , or it would not be a shirt . |
| 30 | It may be that the patient feels gratified by someone taking his or her illness seriously , or it may simply be the power of suggestion — because they feel they are being offered a cure , they actually begin to get better . |