Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government has made it clear that it may not use its power of veto , which protects Jaguar from takeover until the end of next year by limiting individual investors to a 15 per cent holding . |
| 2 | Failure of Antarctic sanctuary plan A French proposal for the establishment of an Antarctic whale sanctuary was withdrawn when it became clear that it would not win the requisite 75 per cent level of support of IWC members . |
| 3 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 4 | India , which had removed the final contingent of Indian Peace-Keeping Force ( IPKF ) troops from Sri Lanka in March 1990 [ see p. 37316 ] , expressed concern for the plight of Tamil civilians but made it clear that it would not permit its territory to be used to support militant activity . |
| 5 | Although there is much to be said for freedom of information , it is not clear that it would greatly help individual aggrieved citizens . |
| 6 | ‘ The Community as a whole should make it absolutely clear that it would warmly welcome East Germany joining West Germany on the basis that it was not admitting a new member state to the Community , but simply recognising the extension of the territory of an existing member ’ , he stated . |
| 7 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 8 | Although the Committee 's terms of reference excluded manual records , its Report makes clear that it could not justify on grounds of logic or justice the exclusion of manual records from any data protection legislation based upon general data protection principles . |
| 9 | Yet by 1956 it was clear that it could not live safely either with the West Bank re-incorporated into Jordan or with a Palestinian state in the West Bank . |
| 10 | That means making it clear that it will not allow anyone to steal the election , least of all the Cambodian army , which is the servant of the state , not of the CPP . |
| 11 | Eric Hammond of the Electrical , Electronic , Telecommunication and Plumbing Union said in The Daily Telegraph : ’ It is so fundamentally wrong that it will increasingly threaten Labour 's prospects of a national victory . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , we believe the concept is so popular that it may soon become a national , or even international event ’ . |
| 13 | Notes retails at around £400 a user ( with discounts on multiple purchases ) , and is getting so popular that it may well emerge as the de facto standard for disseminating information . |
| 14 | I am now very much afraid that it may not matter what he said on 10 March . |
| 15 | He regarded it with suspicion , as if afraid that it might suddenly sprout legs and run off . |
| 16 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |
| 17 | The thought of risk and high danger was exciting but it must also have been distorting . |
| 18 | We appreciate that raw materials may be foreign but it must not exceed thirty five percent of the finished product . |
| 19 | Some were doubtful whether it would actually work , but all shared a hope of something new , and all were to be given an equal chance . |
| 20 | Now it was empty as it could n't have been for centuries , left to the tide and the sea birds . |
| 21 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 22 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 23 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 24 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 25 | Thymectomy has previously been reported to be of benefit in ulcerative colitis , but it is possible that it may also have a beneficial effect in Crohn 's disease . |
| 26 | Moreover , the strength of the kink is so low that it will often fail when the glider is only just off the ground . |
| 27 | A delusion , on the other hand , is a , is a much more serious kind of factual error in which the element of wish fulfilness becomes so strong that it wo n't countenance any evidence against it . |
| 28 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 29 | His recovery from ‘ giddiness ’ was so complete that it could not have been real . |
| 30 | For the fox , use sand or a very light shade of tan ( not too dark or it will not show up on a dark background ) . |