Example sentences of "[is] [Wh adv] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 2 | And that is how it would remain , until such time as the people would be free to worship in their religion and be proud of their centuries-old heritage . |
| 3 | If Laura had ever owned a car , Anna reflected , this is how it would have looked inside , with the addition of old shoes and chocolate wrappers and squashed hats . |
| 4 | ‘ This is how it would work . |
| 5 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 6 | This is how it would look diagrammatically . |
| 7 | This is how it will remain until fresh data is applied and a further clock pulse given . |
| 8 | However , out of that unpleasant experience something good was generated and that is how it will go on , I 'm sure . |
| 9 | I 've given you Hell from the minute you walked in here , and that 's how it 'll stay . |
| 10 | ‘ Only we know the reason and that 's how it will stay , ’ he said . |
| 11 | That 's how it will have to be . ’ |
| 12 | That 's how it should that that 's how it should work yeah , I agree . |
| 13 | The that 's how it should happen and and one person is simply in charge of taking that and making a note of their amount . |
| 14 | And that 's how it must stay . |
| 15 | This is when it can look most puzzling and most comical to the ignorant . |
| 16 | We might surrender to fear , which is when it will eat us completely , leaving us paralysed and unable to act or think clearly . |
| 17 | The question is when it will happen . |
| 18 | I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done . |
| 19 | What remains unexplained is why it should have been necessary for the Deutschland to go aground , so preventing the nuns from continuing their service to God . |
| 20 | That is why it will succeed . |
| 21 | That is why it will try to con the public that it will not repeal most of the trade union reforms that we have made in the past 12 years . |
| 22 | If all went awry and there was to be a last ditch fight for the city , this is where it would take place . ) |
| 23 | ‘ This is where it 's determined ; this is where it began ; this is where it will end . ’ |
| 24 | If that is to be China 's choice , then North Korea is where it should start . |
| 25 | This is where it can find a post-Thatcher purpose — and , if it keeps its nerve , votes as well . |
| 26 | And erm , it 's only seventeen hours , it 's four hours a day so that 's why it would suit somebody who 's married . |
| 27 | If there is anything in this Duke of Windsor nonsense , the peace at any price brigade , that 's where it 'll come from , you can count on it . ’ |
| 28 | However , he found it ‘ quite unfathomable ’ that they had ‘ chosen to live in the city of which Mike Harding quite sensibly said that if Britain broke wind that 's where it would come from . ’ |
| 29 | That 's where it will end . |
| 30 | the new tee , is our official tee and er that 's where it will stay a onto the new green . |