Example sentences of "it [modal v] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 2 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 3 | Orwell claimed the novel was an essentially protestant art form ; increasingly it appears to me that it must in the broadest sense be a Christian-humanist endeavour . |
| 4 | So there is still an uncomfortably strong possibility that the Yugoslav confrontation may end messily , perhaps even bloodily , just as it might in the Soviet Union , where Yugoslav events are followed with special interest . |
| 5 | In these circumstances each polytechnic evolved as best it could in the various contexts within which it had to operate — for finance , primarily its local authority ; for permission to develop a course , the Regional Advisory Council ; for course approval , the CNAA and other validating bodies . |
| 6 | The question is whether the allegiance and the democratic commitment which goes with it could in the foreseeable future be transferred from the nation state to a federal superstate of Europe . |
| 7 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 8 | Corollaries of this belief are , that evil can not itself create , that it was not in itself created ( but sprang from a voluntary exercise of free will by Satan , Adam and Eve , to separate themselves from God ) , that it will in the long run be annulled or eliminated , as the Fall of Man was redressed by the Incarnation and Death of Christ . |
| 9 | And even if that does not happen at once , it will in the coming years , when there will be fewer workers and new-property owners to pay taxes , and more elderly in need of welfare services . |
| 10 | It will in the longer term be recognised as such and very much in ‘ the furtherance of all Scottish interests ’ . |
| 11 | Moreover , the simplification can not be made , as it can in the terrestrial planets , that the influence of temperature on density is slight compared with the influence of pressure : the temperature change with depth in adiabatic lapse-rate models of Jupiter is much too large for this to be the case . |