Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] it [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | It is included in the present study because it may possibly occur in deeper water elsewhere in the North Atlantic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He did n't mention the ‘ accident ’ at Bloomwater because it would only upset her . |
| 5 | Register-shifting , while a possibility in certain sorts of text , is discouraged in academic texts because it can often have the effect of ironising your writing , something which is undesirable if you have to demonstrate clearly your knowledge and ideas . |
| 6 | And it just made me realize how fragile life is and how God has got his hand on you and erm how he protected me from erm being killed in that plane crash because it could easily have been my plane |
| 7 | I 'll treasure the £5 because it will always remind me of your kindness and integrity . |
| 8 | It helps if it is small , and it is also a great advantage if it can easily reach the next tree without having to climb down to the ground and then climb up again . |
| 9 | Correspondingly , its projection horizon would be 3-10 years although it will necessarily project short-term developments too . |
| 10 | Carriers are expected to be the first users of the interface since it will significantly reduce the cost of building a new Frame Relay network or of extending an existing Frame Relay network . |
| 11 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |
| 12 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 13 | Also engineers are singled out here as the culprits when it could well have been social ( and technically incompetent ) scientists ! |
| 14 | Suppose for example there are two remaining producers in an industry which has now contracted to the point when it can profitably support only one firm . |
| 15 | It seemed very obvious , first of all , that a country does not get rich by importing manufactured goods if it can possibly manufacture them itself . |
| 16 | You can now forget about the Vehicle Watchdog as it will automatically switch itself on and off and the extensive battery life will ensure long and reliable service . |
| 17 | Of course , the marginal revenue of Division A is simply the transfer price as it can only sell to Division B. So we should work out A 's marginal costs at the required level of group activity and set the transfer price equal to that . |
| 18 | The fact that the Labour Party did not lead public opinion as strongly as it might have done meant that the National government had an easier ride than it might otherwise have expected . |
| 19 | Bellburn Lane is a residential cul de sac which already suffers with more traffic than it can safely handle . |
| 20 | We might go on to say that not only in the medieval period with its plainsong , but also today , the Church owes more to the prayer and music of the religious orders than it will ever appreciate . |
| 21 | So you may have to ask Norman if it 'll now work . |
| 22 | I tidy and vacuum the sitting room after she 's gone to bed — I do n't see any point in doing it in the morning because it 'll only get messed up again . |
| 23 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 24 | Then in a loud voice his mother told him not to touch my dog as it would probably bite him . |
| 25 | It will be making early morning visits to the boulder beaches and broken cliffs where it will later lay its two large spotted eggs well out of sight in some crevice . |
| 26 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 27 | The Russian attachés in Sofia and Belgrade , Colonels Romanovskii and Artamonov , a good case in point , did much by their belligerent attitude to give the Balkan alliance of 1912 against the Ottoman empire a more aggressive and expansionist slant than it might otherwise have had . |
| 28 | Increase the heat and reduce the liquid until it will just coat the chicken . |
| 29 | • Far from displaying its ‘ import fighting ’ Saturn , GM revealed it currently has no plans to sell the car in Europe because it would probably grab sales away from Opel and Vauxhall . |
| 30 | However , the kick enjoys a measure of success because it can literally curl around an otherwise effective guard and thump into the back of the opponent 's head . |