Example sentences of "in it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the Americans opposed the idea of a Palestinian state : there was not enough room , they said ; and , given independence , the people in it might break their promise to be nice to Israel . |
| 2 | But towards the end of my anorexic period I think I was verging upon mental illness in the sense that even those who disbelieve in it might accept , that is , I had become out of touch with reality as perceived by others and unable to cope with demands of everyday life . |
| 3 | and the reason for that was because if left in it might mislead a prospective purchaser |
| 4 | ‘ If you put some fire-lighters in it 'll start again in no time . ’ |
| 5 | Got ta colour all this in it 'll take ages ! |
| 6 | If the incorrect code was programmed in it would activate a canister of lethal nerve gas which was secreted in the ceiling directly above the door . |
| 7 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 8 | If we were going to cave in it would have been today . |
| 9 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 10 | ‘ I think without any treatment , if the child was left in the situation it was in it would have died within some months , ’ he said . |
| 11 | This has the particular advantage of avoiding possible political problems that may have occurred if a more radical strategy had been adopted , because the workplace and working relationships will probably remain intact , although the roles of the employees in it may change . |
| 12 | It may be noted incidentally that if in any land the poll is higher than the national average one or more patties in it may receive a correspondingly larger allotment of seats , which , since the number of constituency seats can not be changed , will entail a larger allotment of list seats . |
| 13 | Though I may fail to carry it out to the full in this life , my faith in it shall abide . ’ |
| 14 | One who inherits a title whilst a Member of the House of Commons or a candidate for a seat in it can remain or become a Member for only one month before disclaiming . |
| 15 | Their last meal in it should have been a kind of sacrament . |
| 16 | If we work as well together in 1993 as we did in ‘ 92 Pest Control and the people in it will continue to prosper and this coming year will be another success story . |
| 17 | If the community itself becomes prosperous , the people living in it will have more money to spend on the goods and services being provided by the companies . |
| 18 | Every community will have its secrets , and every individual in it will have views that they would not normally express to others , but do express to the researcher . |
| 19 | But if the metal is placed in a big magnetic field ( the Earth 's field may do ) , then electric currents in it will produce well-defined surface-perturbing mechanical movements . |
| 20 | In it will call Him Lord . |
| 21 | Everything in it will get ten times bigger wo n't it Right , and this is why the short cut works , because a really clever way of timesing that by ten is to make that number come here , that number come there , this number come here , right , this number come here , and this number come here . |
| 22 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 23 | If one of these had gone in it could have been a different story . |
| 24 | If you 'd 've just switched it on when I come in it 'd 've been totally different . |