Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folly can mean a useless building or it can mean a clump of trees on a hill . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't cut her hair or it will stop her talking ! ’ |
| 3 | This temporary retreat may bring the immediate refreshment of change or it may widen our horizons either by romantic hyperbole or by an unexpected psychological authenticity close to the reality of life as we know it . |
| 4 | It can encourage foreign tourists to spend their money or it can encourage foreign investment which will provide income . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The superoxide generated may have a direct cytotoxic effect or it may interact with inflammatory mediators to modify the inflammatory process . |
| 7 | There are more opportunities for quick thinking and it should make things very interesting with the need for players to be constantly on the alert . |
| 8 | As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk . |
| 9 | Remember that regression is a new experience for your subconscious mind and it will do whatever is necessary to protect you . |
| 10 | If you do you will approach the next interview in the wrong frame of mind and it will make you less effective . |
| 11 | To conduct it is a devastating experience : it takes up all your mind and it will take you two or three days to recover from it . |
| 12 | It can complicate the management of in-patients beds if beds have to be kept available to accommodate persons on leave of absence who may relapse and require urgent readmission and it can distort the patient statistics . |
| 13 | A STAR ballerina hit in the face by an airgun pellet has been told : Dance one more pirouette and it could blind you . |
| 14 | As they did so there came out of the mist a car and it must have seen the crows at me for it stopped . |
| 15 | International law will then control force and it will do so because it is real law . |
| 16 | They could put the hook in there and they could lower doors away so there 's no need for the , cos many a time in the dumb hopper when you knock that pin out , they go down with the force and it 'd break and it 'd break the er the chain , the chain link . |
| 17 | erm should she pack up her Saturday job , it pays around twenty pound and it will go up to about twenty five , and Sue and Will sat and talked about it and she got , she 's surprising been interviewed for the W R A F but I mean that 's not gon na be so easy these days , I mean they 're gon na take the exceptionals that they need are n't they ? |
| 18 | Chuck it over the fence and it 'll go straight in , more or less straight in the trailer wo n't it ? |
| 19 | Find one in good condition and it will give endless pleasure but , being an old design , expect a fair amount of maintenance . |
| 20 | If you are not too bothered erm , if you do n't know a priori where the break comes , you can just split the sample size in half and just estimate erm an equation for each , not less , you wo n't but the computer will , if you just specify half the sample size , right , and when it asks for the number of observations failure or Chow tests you just press the return key and it will use all the remaining observations , right , but when you are doing the empirical work you should always test for structural stability , right , and er either of Chow 's tests will , will suffice , right , but if you 've got a very small stock sample where there are fewer observations than there are parameters to be estimated you will have to use Chow 's second test failure . |
| 21 | For Blue Circle , cement volumes tumbled by 17 p.c. in Britain last year , and yet group profits fell by ‘ only ’ 36 p.c. and it could maintain its dividends without too much strain . |
| 22 | But it can be helped by giving an injection and it will clear up of its own accord eventually . |
| 23 | We usually have a west wind and it 'll go straight into these holes . |
| 24 | More often than not , papers do appear different on either side and it would seem sensible not to be inhibited and to use the reverse if you actually prefer it ! |
| 25 | It must for example , ensure an independent judiciary , provide health and education services , basic infrastructure and maintenance and it must bring about the economic environment that allows the private sector to create jobs and growth . |
| 26 | DOMESTIC bliss is not an illusion but it can prove elusive . |
| 27 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 28 | ‘ I had a lot of fun making the programme but it can get boring after a while . |
| 29 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 30 | I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example . |