Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stipulated that neutrality should be guaranteed by banning them from accepting party political positions or speaking publicly on behalf of political parties . |
| 2 | It assumes administrative efficiency will suffice when this may only have the most limited of practical effects . |
| 3 | After the Dubai 1986 Olympics when England were unlucky not to win against a full-strength USSR , it seemed that gold would be there once the Russians had another off day . |
| 4 | It seemed that winter would never go . |
| 5 | It seemed that time might stand still forever . |
| 6 | Initially , it seemed that Sale might prove victorious . |
| 7 | Creggan nodded , for it seemed this eagle would know the truth of anything he said . |
| 8 | All are searching for peace of mind and for a while it seem that Ilmorog can offer this . |
| 9 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |
| 10 | It clearly precludes the collection of data for its own sake , or just in case it might turn out to be useful ; and it requires that information shall be kept for only as long as it remains relevant . |
| 11 | It followed that regard must be had to the contractual obligation under consideration , and not to the contract as a whole . |
| 12 | ‘ If it rains , ’ he said gloomily , ‘ if it rains that heap will set like mixed concrete and we 'll never be rid of it' ; and though there was no sign of a break in the weather he covered the slowly diminishing heap at night with clear plastic , weighted down with stones . |
| 13 | In the interval between night and day , when it appears all colour may have been leached from the world in the blood wedding of sea and sky the night before , the men in Tiguary 's warrior band crept softly towards the English compound , some picking their way in the sulphurous stream , others moving in single file along the banks . |
| 14 | Although it is currently the practice of Customs to allow the vendor to deduct input tax attributable to a TOGC ( which is an " outside-the-scope " supply ) , it appears this practice might be changing in view of changes to s15(2) VAT Act 1983 and Reg 32 of the VAT ( General ) Regulations 1985 ; the changes are intended to put the right to deduct input tax in respect of certain outside-the-scope supplies onto a statutory footing . |
| 15 | Although the threat of competition from institutions offering conveyancing may have receded for the moment , solicitors must not be complacent about the threat from the institutions because the Government may again consider encouraging outside competition if it seems political mileage may be gained . |
| 16 | However , it seems that gravity may provide a limit to this sequence of ‘ boxes within boxes . ’ |
| 17 | However , it seems that gravity should provide a limit , but only at the very short length scale of 10 -33 cm or the very high energy of 10 28 length scales shorter than this , one would expect that space-time would cease to behave like a smooth continuum and that it would acquire a foamlike structure because of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field . |
| 18 | At the moment , at least , it seems that gravity can be unified with the other physical interactions only in some supergravity theory . |
| 19 | It seems that formalism must be resisted by its own means . |
| 20 | It seems that parthenogenesis may establish itself because of its twofold immediate advantage , but that parthenogenetic populations are ultimately eliminated , probably because they can not evolve rapidly enough to meet changing circumstances . |
| 21 | In terms of the dictum in Lord Roskill 's speech in Seymour [ 1983 ] 2 AC 493 , Parliament had otherwise ordained with regard to recklessness in s.47 — after Spratt it seems that Parliament can otherwise ordain without expressing such a wish . |
| 22 | It seems that yarn can be spun in two ways , one with ‘ S ’ twist and the other ‘ Z ’ twist . |
| 23 | Sometimes it seems that death might be … ’ |
| 24 | If , as the psychodynamic school believes , obesity is fundamentally a psychological problem , it follows that treatment should ideally be aimed at the mind rather than at the body , and that treatment aimed at the body will leave the underlying psychological problem unaltered or even aggravated , similar objections were and still are levelled against behavioural treatments which allegedly deal only with ‘ symptoms ’ , leaving the underlying problem to spring up anew . |
| 25 | It follows that selection should also take account of other factors , such as an interest in the NHS , ability in senior decision-making groups and a tolerance of the ambiguities of public service management . |
| 26 | If it is necessary to draw a clear distinction between social problems and sociological questions then it follows that sociology must maintain a critical distance from the ideas — whether dominant or otherwise — of any particular society at any particular time . |
| 27 | It follows that reform can never be guaranteed to work ( as of course research well and truly confirms ) . |
| 28 | But since Marxists believe that capitalism as a social system is doomed , it follows that capitalism can not he rationally planned for ever . |
| 29 | On this analysis , it follows that irrationality could mean either a reluctance to adopt the particular norms within a mode of thought ( i.e. a disinclination to fall in with the substantive rationality of the discipline in question ) or a determination , perverse or otherwise , to impose a constraint of some kind on the open discourse of the discipline ( in other words , to distort the procedural rationality of the academic community ) . |
| 30 | Insisting that religious faith must be absolutely certain and secure , it decides that history can never provide such security and thereby loses interest in history altogether . |