Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for the discourse analyst it may be exactly these transient and variable features which enable us to understand the meaning of what is said , and the reason why the order of sentences proceeds in the way that it does . |
| 2 | Firstly , it may be simply that policy makers are far from clear what they really want . |
| 3 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 4 | It may be too that in the lower regions of society women were freer to find at least part-time employment : the distaff provided occupation for almost all , and even if the invention of the spinning wheel may have reduced the opportunities for some , it enormously increased those of others . |
| 5 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 6 | While it may be too much to expect the applicant to appreciate the wider impact and implications of his proposal , and while it may be unreasonable to expect any but the most steadfast defender of National Park principles to resist continual local pressure for change , CPRW hopes that this Inquiry will enable a more far- sighted view of what is at stake , to prevail . |
| 7 | He says Lawrence is a big man and it may be too much for his knee to take . |
| 8 | But it may be as little as a century old . |
| 9 | Initially , it may be as much as he can manage to co-operate in changing his pyjamas , a relatively simple task with proper guidance . |
| 10 | By the time the storm is fully formed it may be as much as 400 miles wide , moving at perhaps 20 miles an hour , and with winds near its core raging at well over 100 miles an hour . |
| 11 | It may be as much for the homely , recognisable nature of this particular hero as for the energy and drama of the story that Lorna Doone has remained a classic for more than a century , and a classic adopted by the young for their own reading . |
| 12 | The average stay is five to six months , but sometimes it may be as much as a year . |
| 13 | ‘ It should be here any moment now . ’ |
| 14 | Do n't you reckon it feels like it should be about half three ? |
| 15 | ‘ It must be quite some fund , ’ Alison said , raising her voice to reach him . |
| 16 | It may work , or it might be just another item from the guitar voodoo handbook . |
| 17 | ‘ I did think it might be too much for her , but her history of the ship was excellent , ’ he says . |
| 18 | It might be too much of a shock if we burst in on them without any warning . ’ |
| 19 | I was afraid it might be too much for you but you seemed so happy . ’ |
| 20 | Although it might be too much to say that Woodhead and colleagues have found the proverbial smoking gun that settles the issue of deep mantle recycling , they do seem at least to have found a gun . |
| 21 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 22 | It might be out all |
| 23 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 24 | It 'll be here some time all right , it 's on Hanlon 's list and today 's their day to deliver if the old horse is able , tell her . " |
| 25 | I 've been trying to get some indoor fireworks and I ca n't get any , I thought it 'll be just some . |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll be back any minute . ’ |
| 27 | Even if we get him to comb his hair , it 'll be too much of a shock for Professor Thornton . ’ |
| 28 | and I thought , it 'll be too much in that little area . |
| 29 | Your mother mentioned Family Day — do you think it 'll be too much of a problem ? |
| 30 | Yeah and by the time you got home , it 'll be about half past three |