Example sentences of "[det] [subord] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You shall paint me like this if it would please you , Barney dear , ’ she whispered aloud . |
| 2 | The authors may argue against this as it would require legislation and changes in the existing responsibilities of local government authorities and health authorities . |
| 3 | As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait . |
| 4 | A drug may make an animal less hungry , less mobile , less sensitive to the pain of an electric shock , just as much as it may make it forget . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Government has stepped in to underwrite the cost of bomb damage to shore up confidence in the British insurance industry and the reputation of the City of London as a world financial centre although that , ironically , may encourage just as much as it may discourage the IRA . |
| 6 | Taking out some and reducing the number of pests is one thing , but reliable eradication can hardly be expected or hoped for , and much as it may displease those purists who do not like the idea of using poisonous chemicals in the garden , they have to be our main line of defence and protection of our roses . |
| 7 | By now , the Amsterdam was heaving much as it might have been when the quays were lined with ships , although probably it was not half so fetid . |
| 8 | Since , in many tribal societies , women were either pregnant or nursing during most of their fertile period of life , this monthly menstrual withdrawal did not affect women 's lives from month to month as much as it might seem to us today . |
| 9 | I pointed out that the samples cost damn near as much as it would cost to paint the room , but a woman in paint picking mode is not an easy person to reason with . |
| 10 | Treaty in as much as it would prevent the exercise of the right of establishment on a secondary basis . |
| 11 | Since then , and particularly in the past three months , the economic blockade of northern Iraq by Saddam Hussein has prevented the UNHCR from doing as much as it would like to do . |
| 12 | As with most fossils of this comparatively recent date , the shell looks now much as it would have done when the animal first died , except for the loss of pigment . |
| 13 | It upset him , as much as it would have upset his wife , to know that the boy had eavesdropped on this most intimate family moment . |
| 14 | All this has swelled OPEC 's coffers , but not by as much as it would have liked . |
| 15 | It 's more aerodynamic , the interior has been improved ( although not nearly as much as it should have been ) , the new engine has more power and yet is no thirstier , and the new suspension means safer , more predictable , handling . |
| 16 | It did not hurt as much as it should have . |
| 17 | Coaching , however , has not been developed in the UK as much as it should have been . |
| 18 | Coming to that realisation so soon after her panic at drowning did n't seem to worry her as much as it should have done . |
| 19 | The tremendous post war housing development within the Borough has not benefited North Shields nearly as much as it should have done had its position been central . |
| 20 | Robert knew that his stepdaughter would have a little inheritance , not as much as it should have been because that stubborn old woman had dipped into her capital to buy worthless stock , but it would be a nice little nest-egg all the same . |
| 21 | The kitchen is particularly fascinating with its full array of cooking equipment looking much as it must have done in the 18th Century . |
| 22 | … The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it … |
| 23 | Spotting a store that is not selling as much as it could sell is easy . |
| 24 | Alternatively , the power of religious belief may have been such that each community gave as much as it could afford . |
| 25 | The plethora of dams will uproot over a million people — including many tribals — and submerge about 850,000 acres of forest and 500,000 acres of cultivated land — almost as much as it will irrigate . |
| 26 | So that 's a good case in which I think an Institute of this kind can perform a very useful role which does n't have any paternalistic undertones at all , because it will learn as much as it will teach , so to speak . |
| 27 | Mr Milburn said Labour wanted to provide adequate child care facilities for all because it would benefit children , and would allow parents , especially women , to return to work . |
| 28 | we do what we did here , we cancelled all the twos on the bottom , with as many as it would cancel on the top . |
| 29 | Well , so nothing , if the novel you have written is a good one and if nothing that you have done in the way of title , type of story , original laying-out of the situation has not broken that contract with the reader which says , " This will be a crime novel , it will entertain you first of all though it may cause you a little to think " . |
| 30 | the transport secretary John Macgregor has been totally opposed to that because it would mean nothing changing in effect . |