Example sentences of "[conj] it [modal v] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 2 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 3 | The chief officer pointed out : ‘ In circumstances where it would prove uneconomic to apply the full rigours of building regulations , it is reasonable for the council to grant relaxations . ’ |
| 4 | In addition there will be tax advantages where it may prove possible , for example , for the sub-contractor to offset against income tax telephone charges , rates , heating and lighting , car or van expenses and the payment , say , to a member of the family for the preparation of accounts . |
| 5 | She knew she must get out of the car quickly , or it would get stuck behind the steering wheel . |
| 6 | The principle of salvation may be theological , as in the case of religious fundamentalism ; or it may be purely secular , as with ethnic nationalism ; or it may involve some combination of the two . |
| 7 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 8 | Or it may sit tight in the reasonable hope that either the economic strain proves too great and Syria 's military strength is sapped by political and economic instability , or that Syria will dissipate its strength against its eastern adversary , Iraq . |
| 9 | Do not touch the outline or it may break open , and avoid air bubbles forming , as these will spoil the smooth , sheer surface of the icing — if they do occur , prick with a cocktail stick . |
| 10 | A database may hold factual information e.g. facts about Eskimo life or important Eskimo words and their meaning or it may hold bibliographic information ( fiction or non-fiction ) e.g. references to books , slide-sets , films , or periodical articles on Eskimo life and their environment . |
| 11 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 12 | We could easily quite often sit on the fence and say the sun may come out or it may stay cloudy all day . |
| 13 | The classification may be an organizational one , arranging detailed criteria into lists , or it may represent some kind of conceptual hierarchy of increasingly higher order objectives . |
| 14 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 15 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 16 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 17 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 18 | Or it may have little or no practical effect . |
| 19 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 20 | Charlotte you come and your dinner or it 'll get cold . |
| 21 | Or it might suggest that , despite a total lack of plausibility in their claims for knowledge , religious movements have survived either through institutional inertia , or insofar as they assist in conferring a sense of identity on national or local communities . |
| 22 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 23 | Keep your dirty hands off any woman whose name has been mentioned in this column , or it will go worse for you . |
| 24 | If you want to decorate an egg to keep , you must first take out its inside or it will go bad . |
| 25 | Use a tinted moisturiser , or a moisturised base that is softly glowing , but do not use anything too different from your natural skintone or it will look unnatural . |
| 26 | If management , as usually conceived , attempts to mediate this role it will either fail utterly because it will be excluded by the people involved , or it will have distorting effects which can only be dysfunctional . |
| 27 | The insurance company can check ex post in some cases ( after a theft ) or it can screen prior to accepting risk ( health insurance ) . |
| 28 | Moreover , the way that question is answered can change the course of history , it can condemn millions to bloody war , or it can do much to ensure that they are spared that misery . |
| 29 | The government can seek greater efficiency ; it can squeeze expenditure across the board ; or it can ask hard questions about what the state should be doing , and try to eliminate whole categories of spending . |
| 30 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |