Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
| 2 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 3 | The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing . |
| 4 | To talk of pacts and electoral agreements is much too ambitious at this stage , and it may in the end be impractical or unnecessary . |
| 5 | He said that there were two situations in which the court would not enforce a clause : ( a ) if at the time of making the contract it is seen that it may in the future operate unfairly or unreasonably ; or ( b ) if after the time of making the contract it is found to operate unreasonably or unfairly even if those circumstances were not envisaged beforehand . |
| 6 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 7 | Yes oh yes watch , watch yourself over Christmas it 's very complex , yes because I mean the whole point in n it is to have the audio description and also it should be , it should into the runs , so that |
| 8 | I think it should in the south of England er next year or the year after , and we 'll have a number of schemes ready to go if that , that comes about . |
| 9 | If good faith requires only that the holder have no actual notice that the goods have not been shipped or do not correspond to the bill of lading description , the holder does not have to prove that it give value or consideration , as it must under the Pomerene Act . |
| 10 | Do the best it could with the tools to hand . |
| 11 | Overall , it could by the end of the transitional phase claim that it had changed the basis of economic competition by removing many restrictive practices and that it had eased some of the pain of economic decline by its policies towards those aging coal and steel plants that were coming to the end of a useful life . |
| 12 | Knowing what I do now [ he says ] , I think the DIA was looking for a way to get me back to Beirut to salvage what it could from the Asmar wreck . |
| 13 | No distribution network in the world could have survived without damage the severe weather which struck that part of Britain in December 1990 , but the regional electricity company concerned , with help from other companies and from overseas , did what it could in the circumstances to connect those who were temporarily cut off . |
| 14 | As it would on the telephone , yes . |
| 15 | An award of damages will no more be denied to a person vulnerable and predisposed to mental illness than it would to the victim of physical injury with an eggshell skull . |
| 16 | ‘ I am thinking that if all the Jews in the world come to the island it would into the water sink , ja ? ’ |
| 17 | Erm in Yorkshire and Humberside a little bit unexpected , the October survey showed that orders were flat and expectations about output were also fairly flat so it 's come through erm rather better than people thought it would in the Yorkshire and Humberside region . |
| 18 | Even a radical writer like Olive Schreiner appealed for women 's right to work , since it would in the end prove beneficial for the race , ‘ parasitical mothers ’ , she argued , produced ‘ softened sons ’ . |
| 19 | In the event of an insurance company which is a party to the Agreement withdrawing therefrom or ceasing to transact business , it will under the terms of the Agreement , notify individual bank branches/organisations branches from whom they hold notices of interest where that insurance cover has been terminated . |
| 20 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
| 21 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the Opposition welcome the statements made by the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach at last night 's meeting , on the future progress of talks between the two Governments , and that Northern Ireland will be high on their agenda — as it will on the agenda of the Labour Government ? |
| 22 | The players are certainly going to find regular 50-overs cricket very demanding , coming as it will in the midst of already demanding four-day cricket . |
| 23 | It will in the end be a Treasury concern , and if the DTI is really going to be allowed to spend millions propping up Huerter , now that it 's a different government , it 's very much in Hawick 's area . |
| 24 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying it 's not gon na happen but there is no evidence to suggest that it will from the survey . |
| 26 | At this point , Scorsese 's vision freezes — as it will throughout the movie — and for the first time we hear Henry 's thoughts on the matter . |
| 27 | At this point , Scorsese 's vision freezes — as it will throughout the movie — and for the first time we hear Henry 's thoughts on the matter . |
| 28 | Getting an old cast iron downpipe off the wall is not easy and there is a fair chance that if it did n't need replacing when you started , it will by the time you 've removed it . |
| 29 | It is then left to the individual local authority to make the best use it can of the sum granted to it , under an overall obligation to maintain standards of services by comparison with those in other areas . |
| 30 | The original design , held over to eke out what it can during the transition , will be scrapped once the second design comes on-line . |