Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [det] [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | sort of bits , I 've got a bit here and it says all landlords may be liquidated immediately you know |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , it seems that gravity may provide a limit to this sequence of ‘ boxes within boxes . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At the moment , at least , it seems that gravity can be unified with the other physical interactions only in some supergravity theory . |
| 9 | It seems that formalism must be resisted by its own means . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It seems that yarn can be spun in two ways , one with ‘ S ’ twist and the other ‘ Z ’ twist . |
| 13 | Sometimes it seems that death might be … ’ |
| 14 | The favourite buys overall , appear to be fashion items and electrcial goods , but it seems some shoppers will buy anything if it 's on a shelf . |
| 15 | In the three month experiment , unlikely rural topics like cot death , abortion , murder and villagers ' fight against toxic waste dumping are shown , though it seems some episodes will be cut as only four episodes a week are planned . |
| 16 | It hopes these measures will return it to profitability by the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 17 | It hopes some workers can be redeployed at other sites . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It follows that reform can never be guaranteed to work ( as of course research well and truly confirms ) . |
| 22 | But since Marxists believe that capitalism as a social system is doomed , it follows that capitalism can not he rationally planned for ever . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Like word processors , however , it 's not so much what a spreadsheet can do in common with others , but what it does that others ca n't , and how it does things that make one stand out from another . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | it stresses that risk should not be based on job title or place of work but on the extent to which there is actual physical exposure to the following substances : |
| 27 | It provides that information may be withheld where a firm : " maintains an established arrangement which requires information obtained by the firm in the course of carrying on one part of its business of any kind to be withheld in certain circumstances from persons with whom it deals in the course of carrying on another part of its business of any kind . " |
| 28 | Wherever we have any hard information , it suggests several forces might have been at work , not least the school . |