Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] [adv] [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract . |
| 2 | The oral shield has an irregular shape , although it may sometimes be hourglass shaped , and extends from the oral frame on to the interradial area . |
| 3 | She could tell by the angle of the light that it would soon be sunset , and the prospect of being here in the dark appalled her . |
| 4 | Now he sat by the fire with his whisky , a drink he did not care for , making conversation with Tony and hoping that it would soon be time for bed . |
| 5 | If I asked a question of him then he 'd answer seriously , but if I floated a question and waited to see which of the students would pick it up I could guarantee that it would never be Holly . |
| 6 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 7 | The Committee therefore proposes the enactment of a statutory provision which will clearly state that rape is committed where a woman consents to sexual intercourse as a result of threats of force , explicit or implicit , against the woman herself or any other person , ‘ but that it should not be rape if , taking a reasonable view , the threats were not capable of being carried out immediately . ’ |
| 8 | When Al Pacino made Kate Nelligan squeeze her feet into gold stilettos throughout intercourse in Frankie and Johnny , the audience knew instinctively that it could n't be love . |
| 9 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 10 | Tretorn , in filing its complaint , believes that the EC Commission 's lawyers may have missed the significance of the word in dispute ( ‘ type ’ ) because the LTA 's previous ball agreement , ( ie the one that the EC Commission was asked to consider ) contained no written reference to pressureless tennis balls , therefore ensuring that it could not be party to such vital information . |
| 11 | It ca n't be Junction 12 , since that one has a double roundabout , and it ca n't be Junction 10 , which has Duxford next to it . |
| 12 | The Gunners swept all before them in October , and it may not be coincidence that their reversal of fortune has accompanied Paul Merson 's switch from the ‘ hole ’ behind the front line to left-wing . |
| 13 | The sky was now getting fairly light , and it would soon be stand-to , so there would be no going back into the trench to get the head down again . |
| 14 | And it could n't be starter Captain Keith Brown , who allegedly rejected the possibility of using a different system TWO MONTHS before the race . |
| 15 | Climate change through the man-made modification of greenhouse gases might be disastrous , but it might equally be deliverance . |
| 16 | had to take a sort of erm south to erm not just thought of both the names and the other one but they would be nearer to Exeter but it would n't be sort of in Exeter itself I was thinking , you know , probably get erm you know , see if there 's any new houses being built there and what sort of price and what have you . |
| 17 | I have n't a clue what I 'd do , but it would certainly be music . ’ |
| 18 | And then you 'd come back later and have a a sort of tea , but it would still be bread and jam , you know what I mean . |
| 19 | As the Introduction said , studying for survival and success will be hard work but it should not be drudgery . |
| 20 | Uu ; but it could also be AABBCC … |
| 21 | For long processing times this will be too low a figure , but it will then be part of run times markedly higher as a result of overall long processing times and it is probable that overflow records will not cause much extra delay . |
| 22 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 23 | ‘ Neither of you will face criminal charges , though it would only be justice after what you 're doing to my sister . |