Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days it may go onto their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice . |
| 2 | Show your strengths to capitalise on , what you 're good at , O K , but that 's normally by the sort of products you 're selling , or it may identify to your manager , why you 're just selling Covermaster , has living insurance gone out of fashion where you are ? |
| 3 | ( a ) Show Grieg 's Bad Debts Provision Account , including bad debts , as it may appear in his ledger for the year ended 31 March Year 14 . |
| 4 | As the Squig escapes from the control of its Night Goblin herders it may burst through its own unit , but it does not cause any damage as it does so . |
| 5 | It is generally around the age of 2½ years that the child begins to take an active interest in its peers — before that time it may play in their company but seldom plays with them . |
| 6 | If there is a general unifying character to mass media , beyond the relativities of speed and audience size , it may lie in their progressive use , during the post-1945 era , as leisure commodities . |
| 7 | If the parent bird is aquatic and is making its display on water , it may turn on its side , flap one wing awkwardly in the air and paddle itself in a circle as if it is hopelessly crippled . |
| 8 | If the applicant does not attend , however , the court is likely to dismiss the application although it may proceed in his absence if sufficient evidence has been received on a previous occasion ( FPCR , r16(5) ; FPR , r4.16(5) ) . |
| 9 | It may live beyond their lives and should not suffer from them . ’ |
| 10 | It may come from their perception that he does not take their ideas seriously . |
| 11 | Moreover , members believe that having their party in office , whatever betrayals it may perpetrate on its supporters in the country , is better than having the opposition take over . |
| 12 | If this club wants to know how to make money then it ought to listen to my boy Chester . |
| 13 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |
| 14 | Yet all women would agree that , whatever their make-up , it should care for their skin . |
| 15 | ‘ It should talk about its benefits — the way the Church can enhance the quality of life and , dare I say , the afterlife , as opposed to threats of hellfire and damnation . |
| 16 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 17 | Sutherland , stressing that it is the largest land-based district council area in Britain , is one of the Highland authorities that believes it should remain on its own . |
| 18 | But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach . |
| 19 | After having had it ruin so much of their practice time , it seemed only fair that it should come to their aid when they needed it . |
| 20 | If it should come to their being used , we could be the cause of burning his roof over him . |
| 21 | Really , to give each herb the best possible chance , the site and soil chosen for it should conform to its specific needs , as with any garden plant . |
| 22 | For a southern French town , still very much in the ambience of the Pyrenees , it is graceless , with less to show than it should have for its history as a local capital , having twice been laid waste in the sixteenth century by Protestant raiders . |
| 23 | Formerly part of the renowned Secretan collection in Paris , it should sell within its ample estimate of $2–3 million ( £1,150,000 – 1,750,000 ) . |
| 24 | Of course , the fewer calories the body uses from food the more it must draw from your surplus body fat , so this adds up to faster weight loss . |
| 25 | The New Secondary Education , the pamphlet approved by Ellen Wilkinson and issued in 1947 , observed somewhat unhelpfully : ‘ The Modern School will be given parity of conditions with other types of secondary school ; parity of esteem it must earn by its own efforts . ’ |
| 26 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 27 | It must compete for their attention with many other features of the text which must seem equally , if not more , important when it comes to matching book to class , or book to the prevailing personal , curricular or literary purpose of the lesson , week , term , or year . |
| 28 | This suggestion seems in the right neighbourhood , for if checkerboard solutions do have a defect , it must lie in their distinctive feature , that they treat people differently when no principle can justify the distinction . |
| 29 | Therefore it must lie within your power to locate and surrender it . ’ |
| 30 | Since bleomycin degrades DNA in a catalytic fashion , and all our cleavage experiments are performed at very low antibiotic concentrations ( nanomolar ) , it must dissociate from its first binding site before a second cleavage event can occur . |