Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 2 | The westerly wind will remain light so it will feel pleasantly warm in the sunshine . |
| 3 | Rather more lively than it would appear to be nowadays . ’ |
| 4 | The farmer , himself a member of the planning committee , had recently removed his stockman from the cottage had built him a modern bungalow on the farm , an arrangement now recognised as less altruistic than it might appear . |
| 5 | HP is not allowed to sell Liken direct so it will put it through resellers . |
| 6 | He 's told me be very bloody careful cos it can go out just like that . |
| 7 | He says it looks quite exciting if it can save alot of trees , make fuel accessible to people who are having difficulty finding enough fuel , then it should be good . |
| 8 | Given the consultations and enquiries that are now needed for relatively minor landscape changes , it is doubtful if it would have ever been achieved . |
| 9 | No account of science can be regarded as anywhere near adequate unless it can accommodate such factors . |
| 10 | Anyway , as I say , you must be careful because it will run out . |
| 11 | The setting of targets would be wrong because it would mean exercising positive discrimination , whereby not necessarily all jobs would go to those with the right and proper talents to do them . |
| 12 | He further argued , or at least implied , that to permit a ‘ non-catholic ’ to adopt children would be wrong because it might put such children 's eternal salvation in jeopardy ( Whyte 1980 : 188–9 ) . |
| 13 | Movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage of our L of C … we are approaching 12 Army Gp immediately with request that they accept concentration … 3 . |
| 14 | Robertson confirmed in the second paragraph of his signal that " movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage on our L of C. He therefore informed McCreery that AFHQ would be " approaching 12th Army Group immediately " to ask them to accept all German surrendered personnel from 5 Corps , with the exception of " arrestable categories " , such as SS . |
| 15 | If the company does prove its case , it is still not clear whether it would escape the sanctions threatened by the US against European telecommunications products and services — mainly because the US has not firmed up on what action it will take . |
| 16 | And despite all its promise it is not yet clear whether it will pull capitalism out of its recession or whether it will only serve the interests of affluent minorities . |
| 17 | It is not , however , obvious that this will continue , and it is not clear whether it will benefit urban government . |
| 18 | As for the Drouot auction , it is not clear whether it will take place at all . |
| 19 | However , if one looks at section 3 it is — we do not need to decide the point — at least doubtful whether it would apply to the circumstances of the present case , because the requisite intent which has to be present before section 3 is breached is the intent under subsection ( 2 ) of section 3 , ‘ ( a ) to impair the operation of any computer ’ — that clearly does not apply to what the respondent did here — ‘ ( b ) to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer ’ — that again clearly does not apply to what the respondent did here — and ‘ ( c ) to impair the operation of any such program ’ — that does not apply here . |
| 20 | His excellency crossed the floor of room B. It was n't a particularly interesting room and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all , had the Anti-Rex not chosen to enter it . |
| 21 | It was n't a particularly interesting café and it 's doubtful whether it would have got a mention at all had … do you ever get that strange feeling of déjà vu ? |
| 22 | This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps . |
| 23 | While one can accept that a high standard of proof is apposite in cases affecting liberty it is very doubtful whether it should apply outside of this area . |
| 24 | But without new supplies from Algeria it is doubtful whether it can sustain an offensive for long . |
| 25 | Hame Special & Sunburst Archtop Question : does an instrument have to be old before it can produce a vintage tone ? |
| 26 | This particular idea , unpromising though it may seem when reduced to words , is put by Britten to astonishingly fruitful use in the course of the opera . |
| 27 | The object of the attentions of Tory apparatchiks — and ministers — is the new policy on employment law , moderate and sensible as it may seem . |
| 28 | Though consent is undeniably a defence to an action for conversion , there are difficulties in reconciling this result , sensible as it may seem , with general principles of agency , for since Y's act was unauthorised it could only be effective if done within an ostensible authority — but that doctrine is inapplicable to undisclosed agency . |
| 29 | These are both recommendable performances : the Monte-Carlo orchestra , in particular , is on top form , and plays this familiar music for all its worth , so that it comes up as fresh as it must have sounded in St. Petersburg a century ago . |
| 30 | With the continuing preponderance of the agricultural population this aspiration was not then as unrealistic as it might seem today . |