Example sentences of "[noun pl] and it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land .
2 There is no wheel-wrestling at roundabouts and it can nip into tight parking spots with ease .
3 Hitler did n't like Jews and it could make trouble for me .
4 The required resistance is 13.33 ohms and it must dissipate 75 × 1 = 75mW .
5 If the teacher is not clear in his or her mind about what is " evidence " and what is " interpretation " , there will be confusions and it will prove impossible to do full justice to Attainment Targets 2 and 3 .
6 The rectangle P measures the cost savings and it could outweigh the triangle A if cost savings are sufficiently large .
7 There are always launderettes and it could lead to a career in pop music . )
8 Scorton caters for large numbers of holiday visitors especially in the summer months and it would seem sensible to keep the toilets open at least until after dusk .
9 We do n't , we turned the valve off , we take a bunch of newspapers and put it on top of the bricks , then we light the newspaper , then we go back and turn the valve on and let this hundred octane mixture of oil drip on the bricks and it would burn .
10 They 're also looking at some of the data integrity erm issues one of which is potentially quite a major problem and the new system will for any qualifying plans , once the new system is in , if a policy 's in arrears it will try and collect the arrears and it will collect up to a maximum of two premiums each month until the policy 's in force and up to date .
11 The mind can generate its own creative images and it will show us colours and visions that will bewilder our eyes and take us to regions beyond the schemata , where words no longer have meaning .
12 For example , much of the foregoing discussion was making the point that soil erosion was important to many small producers in steep-sloped and/or semi-arid areas and it may have seemed that these people were the only ones to cause and suffer from the effects of soil erosion ; also that there were few or no cases where successful adaptations and advances in agricultural technology had occurred .
13 In this new form , it would be independent of the ITV companies and it would sell its own advertising air-time for its revenue .
14 A hundred grams , for one bar , costs you twenty eight pence , right , and then another one that 's two hundred grams and it 'll cost you fifty pence .
15 Sometimes the panic is passed over and forgotten , but at other times it has more serious and long term repercussions and it might produce changes in legal and social policy or even in the way in which societies conceive themselves .
16 So you can join any two opposite corners and it 'll go through the centre .
17 He even ran up some fake City of Westminster chestnut licences and it would have been a laugh but he tried to charge for them .
18 When a Steam Tank ploughs through a unit it will probably hit several models and it may run over several units in a turn if it is lucky .
19 Do n't collect the cress from the wild ; you buy the stuff as a salad garnish from most supermarkets and it will root quite readily in a glass of water .
20 There would be bad , and good , effects and it would take weeks , even months , for her to assimilate them .
21 Apparently , I mean I 've read this , but I do n't know how there was actual references to it as well but apparently what they used to do run a test they used to do was they used to get people very very angry take some blood from them , put put them inside of rats and it would kill the rats .
22 ‘ If the NASUWT goes ahead with its threats of boycotting all tests at all levels this summer it will be doing terrible damage to children , it will cause enormous distress and concern to parents and it will damage the professional standing and status of teachers , ’ he said .
23 Remember , this is a training exercise for parents and it will fail if the task becomes too large to be manageable .
24 Halt it for a few minutes and it would die altogether .
25 When the smoke really thins out , thin blue smoke , rap on it , give the whole tin a shake and it 'll suddenly burst into thick smoke for a few minutes and it may do that again for a second time .
26 She 'll bring it to you in a few minutes and it 'll help you keep your strength . ’
27 In this country they say that if you do n't like the weather all you have to do is wait five minutes and it will get better .
28 By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse .
29 This happened in the days before Juvenile Courts and it must have been a terrifying experience to be taken into the Court as a seven-year-old to be tried .
30 That may teach them a lesson for kowtowing to the Germans and it should warn us to be wary of both countries .
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