Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and by the end of that it 'll be , make me mind up whether it 's what I want |
| 2 | Oh I 've never heard of that it must be |
| 3 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 4 | Now in terms of whether it should be five thousand plus , that of course is a matter of whether there is demand , now my my conclusion , from my fairly extensive knowledge of Greater York , is that you just could not fit a new settlement that size satisfactorily into the settlement and landscape pattern of Greater York , or its immediate surrounds , I just can not identify a location where that could be where where the roads , the public transport , the landscape , or indeed the agricultural land quality , from now onto five an area , suitably large for that type of what would be a a new town . |
| 5 | If so , there is the question of whether it should be newly formed or whether a shelf company will suffice . |
| 6 | Firstly , as with any property , a purchaser wants an assessment of the physical state of the property and an assessment of whether it will be suitable for its business . |
| 7 | The question of whether it will be effective or not will not be determined until the trials are finished . ’ |
| 8 | In concluding his discussion of corporate crime , Box raises the question of whether it can be justified to send thousands of people to prison each year because they are too poor to pay fines ( in 1981 , 20,000 males were imprisoned for defaulting on fine payments ) when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crime . |
| 9 | What should be done is the level of housing allocated to Selby should be assessed in terms of whether it can be satisfactorily accommodated , and if it ca n't then it should n't be allocated . |
| 10 | Similarly , some goods are unaccounted for and it may be that you have sales items but are not shown on our list , ( including publications ) . |
| 11 | that is the effects , I mean they will still give grant , but indirectly through the revenues for and it will be spared but , for a number of years , you ca n't be absolutely precise about how long . |
| 12 | But then this feels as if it may be a transitional volume , presaging the larger-scale fiction in which Tolstaya should surely be spreading her brilliant wings . |
| 13 | But the speculation that Sycorax has to do with Colchian magic , because that was the land of the Coraxi , sounds as if it might be true . |
| 14 | Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in . |
| 15 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
| 16 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 17 | Although this sounds as if it might be extremely uncomfortable , the cervix , like the vagina , is surprisingly poorly supplied with sensory nerve-endings , and a relaxed patient may be totally unaware that any samples are being taken from this site . |
| 18 | Life in New Zealand was hard for the original settlers , but not quite as hard for Bruce and Jim 's generation , and it looked as if it might be a veritable paradise for the children 's . |
| 19 | If the mash is beginning to look as if it might be too runny , cook gently to reduce . |
| 20 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 21 | That enamel mug looked as if it might be his . |
| 22 | In the part in which she was standing was a small table and two chairs and an iron contraption that looked as if it might be used for some form of heating . |
| 23 | ‘ I believe we 're the only ones left , ’ said Jed as they stopped at East Acton , a rather dark little station that looked as if it might be out in the country . |
| 24 | Although this self-regulatory mechanism sounds as if it might be quite an effective constraint on the exercise of discretion by sentencers , in practice it is subject to a number of serious limitations . |
| 25 | There was a heavy entrance door that looked as if it might be airtight , but it was wedged back . |
| 26 | One of them was a slim pamphlet that looked as if it might be the catalogue . |
| 27 | The room looked as if it might be quite comfortable . |
| 28 | It was rather a horrid mist ; you felt as if it might be concealing peering , grinning creatures who were being very careful to stay just out of sight , but who were creeping after you as you rode along , or who were tiptoeing on ahead of you , rubbing their hands together , waiting until you reached them … |
| 29 | It moulded itself about her waist and it felt warm and rather safe , as if it might be armouring her against the evils in here . |
| 30 | Retreating to her bedroom , flinging things into her suitcase , she was furious to find that tears were pricking the backs of her eyes , and her heart felt as if it might be slowly breaking into a million pieces … |