Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not let the bird preen for at least half an hour or it will just pull the feather out . |
| 2 | This base can be the rear seat rail , or another rail fitted above the seat , but if so , no more than 2in above the seat or it would also need to be curved to avoid discomfort . |
| 3 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 4 | While the UNHCR in Geneva has welcomed the move , its officials on the ground fear that it will only make things more difficult . |
| 5 | The ASB will , before long , be producing proposals on some of the most difficult subjects that it will ever have to face . |
| 6 | The 11 May sale features over one hundred paintings and drawings , highlighted by George Braque 's late masterpiece ‘ Atelier VIII ’ ( 1952–55 ) ( est. around $8–10 million ) , bought by Cooper directly from the artist , who had sold it only on condition that it would never leave France . |
| 7 | and we 'll just a wee gentle syringe and it 'll all come away . |
| 8 | Canadian Pound told a breakfast press conference for journalists : ‘ The best of riders can not win without a good horse — you could put a dog on a horse and it would still win . ’ |
| 9 | The Mind assesses their relative importance , and thus not only is it capable of analysis and disassociation of individual sensations but it can also synthesize a series of sensations into a single whole . |
| 10 | It is entitled to see ( and debate , if necessary ) the annual accounts and report of each industry but it can only question the minister on those aspects of the industry 's activities for which the minister is responsible . |
| 11 | ‘ Completing your dog-training course could take a couple of months but it could also take a couple of years because of the waiting period . ’ |
| 12 | Mm I had to go back it suddenly occurred to me I 've got the back door key but it might still have been bolted . |
| 13 | It is included in the present study because it may possibly occur in deeper water elsewhere in the North Atlantic . |
| 14 | Mr. Wall prays in aid that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. in support of his submission that it is only in the event of the court in this country finding that article 13 ( b ) is applicable to the case that it can properly consider the ‘ welfare interests ’ of the child in deciding whether to decline to order the return of the child to Australia . |
| 15 | In Australia the thylacine , or marsupial " wolf " ( often called the Tasmanian wolf because it survived in Tasmania for a little longer than in mainland Australia ) , was tragically driven extinct within living memory , slaughtered in enormous numbers as a " pest " and for " sport " by humans ( there is a slight hope that it may still survive in remote parts of Tasmania , areas which themselves are now threatened with destruction in the interests of providing " employment " for humans ) . |
| 16 | advanced 4 pence to 939 pence on hope that it will shortly sell the Crest Hotel 's chain and a favourable Broker 's recommendation . |
| 17 | Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man . |
| 18 | But are there dangers that it could also have undesirable or even disastrous consequences both to living organisms and to the environment ? |
| 19 | There was evidence of rivets in it and an X-ray revealed traces of a metal covering , which confirmed to experts that it might well have come from the gable end of just such a shrine , and that it could well have been the piece described by the father of Welsh historical research . |
| 20 | It is in the interests of this class that the workers can afford to buy the types of products that it can realistically expect to sell them . |
| 21 | This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side . |
| 22 | Lord Ennals said : ‘ It took a Labour government to create the NHS and it will now take a Labour government to save the NHS . ’ |
| 23 | Treat your skin to Empathy and it will never feel its age . |
| 24 | This can only be good for the G M B and it would hopefully bring on board some , if not all of the doubting Thomases , that have said in the past that we do nothing for them . |
| 25 | Become a part of your local scene and it may well disappear altogether , except when your activities arouse friendly interest . |
| 26 | There is no doubt that there is an implied restraint as between Y and X and between X and Z and it would equally seem that the benefit of the implied covenant between Y and X would pass to Z upon the sale of goodwill . |
| 27 | She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them . |
| 28 | They have already had many changes of home in their comparatively short lives and it would unquestionably confuse and disturb them to leave England now only to return again in a matter of months should the Australian Family Court consider it right that they should make their home here . |
| 29 | To date there is little evidence of this happening within the NHS but it must soon occupy our attention as a matter of urgency . |
| 30 | The term abandoned is not defined in the Act but it will clearly apply where a person caring for a child has left without indicating his intention to return or making arrangements for the child 's care in his absence . |