Example sentences of "it [adv] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other mention is made of the fact that Molla Fenari 's son ( presumably Mehmed Sah ) was with him ; and , though the sentence is in the context of the visit of 823 , it presumably must refer to an earlier Ramadan . |
| 2 | But I mean , surely i if there 's not enough to go round then those that need it most should get most ? |
| 3 | I find that a thoroughly unsatisfactory situation , in which this court should hold , if it properly can do so , that the board ought to give reasons for its recommendation . |
| 4 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 5 | Yeah I think on the North Sea , it obviously would have erm an effect on parts of our business , some parts more than others erm it 's very early to say exactly what , what effect it obviously in fact to the extent that it encourages the further development of existing fields that clearly benefits parts , parts of our business that are to do with completion equipment and development equipment . |
| 6 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 7 | It alone could authenticate documents with the Great Seal , which was in its custody , and issue orders that required full legal backing , such as grants of land , appointments to offices , and treaties with foreign powers . |
| 8 | Yet the development of the law of trusts had taken place within a period in which it alone could offer these advantages ; to them its rise owed much . |
| 9 | Hence , in the mouths of conservative lawyers , we catch an appeal to the radical doctrine of the sovereignty of the nation ; it alone could provide a theoretical basis for resistance to a French king whose claim was legally established by the formal abdication of both Ferdinand VII and his father . |
| 10 | It alone could safeguard them against disintegration and the disruptive effects of faction and provincial particularism . |
| 11 | It believes that it alone can analyse , comment and advise . |
| 12 | It can capture the nuances of soft and sensitive voices ; it alone can convey the rapport five singers achieve in the bonded intimacy of chamber music-making . |
| 13 | These results indicate that TCR- β is necessary to generate a thymus with the wild-type number of cells , and that it alone can lift the blockade imposed by the RAG-1 mutation in this respect . |
| 14 | Aristotle wrote that the function of anything is what it alone can do or does best . |
| 15 | It alone can propose candidate referents ; other knowledge sources are consulted as to the appropriateness of those referents , and the first proposed candidate to be judged appropriate is accepted . |
| 16 | No I I 'm not sure it necessarily will stop people moving house , what we 're talking about is a level of provision for vacancy rates which is still well above national rates . |
| 17 | It will , it just might slide a bit but it will stop sliding when it comes off it . |
| 18 | A re-evaluation of our current and potential interests in the area would help re-balance our contributions in geographical terms , and it just might introduce us to some useful new artistic interests and commercial concerns . |
| 19 | Tell him that , Jimmy ; it just might help to cheer him up . ’ |
| 20 | It just might happen . |
| 21 | It just might happen . |
| 22 | In a very close race it just might have helped . |
| 23 | On yet another impulse , she stopped to have a quick look , because it just might have mentioned where Slane was , might n't it ? |
| 24 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |
| 25 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 26 | It just could have been a lot better . |
| 27 | It thus may need to be understood , incidentally , more strictly than its original proponent intended . |
| 28 | The individual himself may be perverse or oversensitive ; the reviewing court itself is capable of an Olympian detachment and impartiality , and it thus may find it difficult to believe that others are ever tempted and swayed . |
| 29 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 30 | Nevertheless having said that , er I would say that the County Council 's moved as far as it believes it possibly can do to meeting some of the requests of the the district in providing what we consider a generous , and what other people might consider a overly generous allocation of land . |