Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |
| 2 | For instance it would enable broadcasters to offer interactive services — such as the ability for viewers to call up statistics while watching a baseball game . |
| 3 | ( 1 ) Where the Council refuses an application for recognition it shall notify the applicant of the refusal and of the grounds on which it has been refused . |
| 4 | He had n't admitted this for fear it would disqualify him from this part of the mission , and anyway he had thought he would feel safe behind the comforting protection of a pump-action . |
| 5 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 6 | President Gorbachev and other Politburo members have angrily , and at times desperately , appealed against such a move , for fear it would lead to a breakup of the Soviet Communist Party and , ultimately , of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | ‘ I was never allowed to do anything for fear it would spoil my hands . |
| 8 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 9 | The next letter from Miller , dated 2 February 1756 , acknowledged three from Bartram and two boxes of plants and he added ‘ To the first of your letters , I returned an answer in September last , but for fear it may miscarry , I beg leave to repeat the substance of that here . ’ |
| 10 | I hold my breath until it is melted , for fear it will fly away . |
| 11 | And King Henry , alone in his chamber , held his head between his hands for fear it should burst with anger and chagrin , and something else which he did not or would not recognise for pure hatred . |
| 12 | The Australian honey-guide is so fond of hair it will pluck it straight from a horse 's back or even a human 's head . |
| 13 | ‘ And in that sort of story it 'd have to be their own fault . ’ |
| 14 | If the Poltergeist can be driven out of the chamber by a Zone of Sanctuary it will flee , as its bounded area is the whole Tower . |
| 15 | ‘ With a bit of luck it 'll stay over in Manchester , ’ Otley said . |
| 16 | Sight down the neck again , and with a bit of luck it should have moved to form a ‘ crown ’ or hump . |
| 17 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course it would require the right man to pull it off which is where Liam Devlin comes in , ’ Carter added . |
| 19 | Of course it would turn out that the dead girl was merely someone Jerome Fanshawe had come across that weekend and who had taken his fancy . |
| 20 | It is an ‘ Asian path ’ , but of course it would lie along the other half of the great circle had we used the same model for a R N transition , giving an ‘ Americas path ’ . |
| 21 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |
| 22 | Of course it would have been very satisfactory to have seen King 's assailants behind bars . |
| 23 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 24 | No , I do n't think I 'd go for a house that erm I would n't but those big houses of course it would have alarms would n't it ? |
| 25 | Of course it would have made him feel anything but that . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course it would have counted . ’ |
| 27 | Because of course it may seem , and very many people objected to him , that , if you adopt his sort of subjectivist views , erm you are perhaps deprived of any rational basis upon which you can criticize and condemn the actual way in which human beings conduct their affairs and organize their society . |
| 28 | Of course it may help feminists when , in a Christian invocation to worship , God is referred to as for example ‘ Creator , Redeemer and Sanctifier ’ . |
| 29 | Of course it may define desktop differently from other players and forego a saturation strategy . |
| 30 | The entry specified that he had Spanish as a foreign language , which made me smile , for his Spanish had never been more than rudimentary , though of course it might have improved since he was in Salamanca . |