Example sentences of "[noun] it [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Society prospered , although at its 1852 annual public tea it could hardly hold a Christmas cheese and wine party members were saddened by the numbers that had fallen from grace once the hay and corn harvests had been collected . |
| 2 | In practice it will often show a small number of pixels as ON . |
| 3 | Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ . |
| 4 | In fact , MAS provides a service similar to that of an investment banker in America , although when dealing with acquisitions of quoted companies it will normally involve a merchant bank in certain aspects of the work . |
| 5 | In winter it can often provide a pleasant ice-pitch , but in very wet weather the Rollick Stones ridge on the eastern side of the clough is preferable — from where you get fine views down to the cascades . |
| 6 | It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it . |
| 7 | Depending on the time of year , the Chelt at this point is often no more than a trickle , although after heavy rain it can rapidly become a muddy torrent , rushing through the fields ( and now beneath the M5 motorway ) , via Butlers Court , to the next mill at Boddington . |
| 8 | Indeed , for the first time computerization of a business it may well represent a better bet than the over-featured products such as Framework and Symphony . |
| 9 | Even if the company had too much money for its own good and wanted to go way over the top it should certainly expect a finished block of 60,000 square feet for £9.4m . |
| 10 | If a newspaper commissioned a political poll based on the opinion of a single person it would immediately become a laughing-stock . |
| 11 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 12 | For example it might perhaps enable a prophet to speak out fearlessly in god 's name . |
| 13 | If the glider stalls on the launch it will probably drop a wing and may spin . |
| 14 | Provided the court is satisfied with your petition it will then make a bankruptcy order against the debtor , placing his assets in the hands of the Official Receiver ( a civil servant from the Department of Trade and Industry , known as the OR ) . |
| 15 | Since the catalytic cleavage of DNA by bleomycin occurs by a free radical mechanism it may not require a long residence time on its binding site . |
| 16 | If the Teleputer is in Answering Machine / FAX mode it will automatically detect a FAX only call and divert that to the FAX software . |
| 17 | And for a very small number of patients it may also avert a psychiatric disorder . |
| 18 | Oxfordshire health authority has decided that a threatened £500,000 overspend means it can not open a new cardiology unit which would have freed beds for other uses . |
| 19 | But if you throw a live bird in the air it will not describe a parabola and come to rest on the ground . |
| 20 | In any case it would not affect a buyer who deals as a consumer ( definition at paragraph 10–17 below ) . |
| 21 | There was another possibility for this L-shaped trail : rather than showing the death of a new mesotron it might instead show a known muon that somehow had been captured by the matter around it , extracted energy from it and then shot off again : this was the suggestion that Blackett had made , and Charles Frank began to think about it . |
| 22 | Despite the vulnerability of Legal Aid to government cut-backs it will still remain a very valuable source of funding for personal injury claims . |
| 23 | If a local authority decides that a residence order in favour of a relative may be appropriate after initiating care proceedings it can not make a formal application for a residence order but it can recommend that the court follow this course . |
| 24 | To agree with the results it should only allow a fraction unc a of its energy to get through . |
| 25 | Despite the virtual collapse of the communist system in eastern Europe during 1989-90 , the CPV platform confidently predicted that " socialism will recover its vitality , and despite the winding path it will finally score a victory " . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , TNCs do introduce much useable technology into the Third World , and while it may not lead to the conquest of global markets it may still have a very positive effect on industry and employment in particular countries . |
| 27 | With computer analysis it can also reach a far higher level of sophistication than can be achieved by hand methods . |
| 28 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 29 | When making a care order it can also make a contact order under s34. ( a ) Care orders A care order places a child in the care of a designated local authority which must then receive the child and keep him in care while the order remains in force ( s33(1) ) . |
| 30 | At the same time , for many women it can also mark a new beginning . |