Example sentences of "[adj] it [modal v] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 2 | If you are very lucky it could perform all these functions at once . |
| 3 | At worst it could mean many months in hospital . |
| 4 | BECAUSE the United States is to reduce its military spending , it is inevitable it will withdraw some of the US military forces now based in Japan and reduce forces deployed for emergencies . |
| 5 | Since form and function are related to living things , when the information in an illustration is incorrect it can take more work in the long run to get the thing to look right . |
| 6 | I 'm sure it 'll cost more than a quid but seeing as you ca n't like get more than a mile long piece anyway so |
| 7 | To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference . |
| 8 | Go away , Leo ; go and play with the Land Rover — I feel sure it will present more of a challenge than I will . ’ |
| 9 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 10 | The Labour Party leadership did all it could to limit any appeal which the Left outside the Party might exercise over its members . |
| 11 | The county council accepts the problems and is keen to do all it can to support those authorities er to North and South . |
| 12 | Oxford City Council says it 's satisfied that Thames Water is doing all it can to prevent another outbreak of cryptosporidiosis ; the water bug which struck the Oxford and Swindon areas early last year . |
| 13 | And small good it would do any of them . |
| 14 | If the quality of the counselling relationship is good it should prove more than enough to handle the outcome , and if it then assists the individual towards a resolution of emotional troubles , the short-term distress has been worthwhile . |
| 15 | Given an input file of text , the task of a spelling checker is to identify those words which are incorrect , but first it must perform some document normalisation . |
| 16 | If you do F eleven it 'll show all the characters . |
| 17 | Is there any danger that erm that it could happen more , er that you could have the same happening say in Flats as a similar thing happening say in erm more middle class areas , such as , yet erm there being more risk of of it of it of erm parents losing the child , say in some areas such as Flats , and yet in , |
| 18 | The Galaxy C-5 is so big it can transport half a dozen helicopters in one go . |
| 19 | But I 'm pretty certain it 'll run all weekend . |
| 20 | The same is true of the various biographies of Lloyd George — although , no doubt , when John Grigg 's multi-volume Life reaches 1931 it will illuminate much that has hitherto remained obscure ; likewise , in the case of Lloyd George 's great enemy , Neville Chamberlain , we have to await the completion of David Dilks 's biography . |
| 21 | It 's so smart it can convert any ASCII text into fax format and store up to 200Kb 's worth . |
| 22 | It is fitting to feel resentful , for example , when we have been wantonly injured ; but for an injury to be wanton it must satisfy these conditions . |
| 23 | It 's alright it can hear both of you , there 's two mikes look . |
| 24 | If the tension is sufficient it will contain some part of the problem , whilst also ensuring that it will balloon out somewhere else . |